The Routledge Anthology of African American Rhetoric is a compendium of primary texts, including dialogues, creative works, critical articles, essays, folklore, interviews, news stories, songs, raps, and speeches that are performed or written by African Americans. Both the book as a whole and the various selections in it speak directly to the artistic, cultural, economic, social, and political condition of African Americans from the enslavement period in America to the present, as well as to the Black Diaspora.
The focal point of this project will be the reader’s companion website that will encourage students and instructors to copious amounts of supplemental material. The standard student/instructor resources are planned (further readings, syllabi, links, etc.) but the editors wish to feature materials that mirror the content in the text. We’ve explored the inclusion of music playlists that will showcase musical selections mentioned in the book. There will be YouTube and various multimedia clips of film, television, and music videos. Finally, there will be excerpts from literature (fiction and non-fiction) along with poetry and other applicable readings.
Part I: African American RhetoricDefinitions and Understanding
Introduction: African American Rhetoric: What It Be, What It Do
Volume Editors: Vershawn Ashanti Young and Michelle Bachelor Robinson
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1. African American Rhetorical theory
Edited by Vershawn Ashanti Young and Michelle Bachelor Robinson
Part II: The Blackest HoursOrigins and Histories of African American
Rhetoric
Introduction: "Coming Out of the Dark": The Beginnings of African American
Rhetoric
Edited and with an Introduction by Michelle Bachelor Robinson
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2. Nobody Knows Our Name: African Orature in the American Diaspora
Edited and with an Introduction by Kermit E. Campbell
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3. Religion and Spirituality/Transportations and Transformations of
Spirituality and Identity in the New World
Edited and with an Introduction by Kameelah Martin and Elizabeth West
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4. Language, Literacy, and Education
Edited and with an Introduction by Valerie Kinloch and Donja Thomas
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5. Black Presence: African American Political Rhetoric
Edited and with an Introduction by Michelle Bachelor Robinson
Part III: Discourses On Black Bodies
Introduction: Genders and Sexualities
Vershawn Ashanti Young
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6. Race Women and Black Feminisms
Edited and with an Introduction by Joy James
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7. Motions of Manhood
Edited and with an Introduction by Vershawn Ashanti Young
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8. the Quare of Queer
Edited and with an Introduction by Jeffrey McCune
Part IV: The New Blackness: Multiple Cultures, Multiple Modes
Introductions:
Courageous Rhetoric: Caribbean Foundations, New Media, and Black Aesthetics
Vershawn Ashanti Young
Everyday Rhetoric: Rhetoric Everyday
Michelle Bachelor Robinson
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9. Caribbean Thought and Its Critique of Subjugation
Edited and with an Introduction by Aaron Kamugisha and Yanique Hume
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10. Black Technocultural Expressivity
Edited and with an Introduction by Dara N. Byrne
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11. Beat Rebels Corrupting Youth Against Babylon
Edited and with an Introduction by Greg Thomas
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12. Black Arts: Black Argument
Edited and with an Introduction by Michelle Bachelor Robinson
Vershawn Ashanti Young works in the following areas of Africana studies: language, gender, performance studies, and rhetoric. He is on faculty in the Department of Drama and Speech Communication at the University of Waterloo in Canada. He has published in such journals as PMLA, African American Review, College Communication and Composition, JAC: A Journal of Rhetoric, Politics, and Society, and Present Tense: A Journal of Rhetoric in Society.
Michelle Bachelor Robinson is the director of the Comprehensive Writing Program and a professor of African American Rhetoric at Spelman College. Her research and teaching focus on community engagement, historiography, African American rhetoric and literacy, composition pedagogy and theory, and student and program assessment. She is actively involved in community research, oral history collection, and community writing and serves as a university partner and consultant for the Historic Black Towns and Settlements Alliance, Inc.
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