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New Approaches to Rhetoric provides fresh perspectives on the study of rhetoric and its ability to affect change in today's society. Although traditional approaches (e.g., neo-Aristotelian) to the study of rhetoric have utility for the twenty-first century, communication in a complex, mass-mediated postmodern age calls for new critical approaches. The contributors of this volume, including James Darsey, Kathryn M. Olson and G. Thomas Goodnight, George Cheney, Dana Cloud, and Barry Brummett, explore possibilities for bridging rhetorical studies of the past with rhetorical studies of the future. The original essays invite students to join rhetorical theorists and critics in an ongoing dialogue concerning what it means to study communication in a postmodern world. New Approaches to Rhetoric is ideal for upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses in Rhetoric and in Political Communication in departments of Communication, English, and Political Science. This book is suitable for use as either a primary or supplemental course text and will be invaluable as a general reference for scholars of rhetoric, social movements, and public sphere studies.
Demonizing Democracy: The Strange Career of Lani Guinier
Demonizing Democracy: The Strange Career of Lani Guinier
In The Strange Career of Jim Crow, historian C. Vann Woodward (1974) articulated an anticipatory understanding of what would become one of the most significant struggles within African American politics and rhetorics in the aftermath of the Civil Rights movement. In the preface to the third edition of the book, Woodward commented on the paradoxical tension between the nonviolent strategies of the movement that had brought about seemingly significant social changes and an emerging need for the more oppositional and militant calls for black power, black unity, and black pride. He explained,
Even the most complete victory over segregation would not satisfy that need, for few wished to ...
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