African American Rhetoric(s)

Elaine B. Richardson, an associate professor of English at Penn State University, is the author of African American Literacies. Ronald L. Jackson II, an associate professor in the Department of Communications Arts and Sciences at Penn State University, is the author of The Negotiation of Cultural Identity: Perceptions of European Americans and African Americans.

"African American Rhetoric(s) will go quite far in helping us to chart new pathways to understanding. This collection encourages us to notice the inventions and refinements in rhetorical practices that have emerged from the cultural fusions of this particular group, but more generally it encourages us to be informed by what human beings, in all our variety, have the capacity to do in the interest of rhetorical exigency."-Jacqueline Jones Royster, from the Foreword "While much attention has been paid to particulars of African American rhetorics, little has been paid to African American rhetorics, broadly understood. This is an important project, given the role, diachronically and synchronically, of African American rhetorics in the American experiment. The volume's tripartite division is appropriate and illuminating."-Bradford T. Stull, author of Amid the Fall, Dreaming of Eden: Du Bois, King, Malcolm X, and Emancipatory Composition