1st Edition

On African-American Rhetoric

By Keith Gilyard, Adam Banks Copyright 2018
154 Pages
by Routledge

154 Pages
by Routledge

154 Pages
by Routledge

On African-American Rhetoric traces the arc of strategic language use by African Americans from rhetorical forms such as slave narratives and the spirituals to Black digital expression and contemporary activism. The governing idea is to illustrate the basic call-response process of African-American culture and to demonstrate how this dynamic has been and continues to be central to the language... Read more

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Historical Overview of African-American Rhetoric

Chapter 3: Jeremiads and Manifestoes

Chapter 4: Rhetorical Theory

Chapter 5: Technology and African-American Rhetoric

Chapter 6: Rhetoric and Black Twitter

Chapter 7: College-Writing Instruction and African-American Rhetoric

Chapter 8: Conclusion

References

Biography

Keith Gilyard works at The Pennsylvania State University, where he is the Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English and African-American Studies and Senior Faculty Mentor in the Office of Educational Equity. His books include Voices of the Self: A Study of Language Competence (1991) and True to the Language Game: African American Discourse, Cultural Politics, and Pedagogy (2011).

Adam J. Banks is Professor and Faculty Director, Program in Writing and Rhetoric at Stanford University. Previous books include Race, Rhetoric, and Technology: Searching for Higher Ground (2006) and Digital Griots: African American Rhetoric in a Multimedia Age (2011).