The Routledge Reader of African American Rhetoric

Part I: African American Rhetoric-Definitions and Understanding



Introduction: African American Rhetoric: What It Be, What It Do



Volume Editors: Vershawn Ashanti Young and Michelle Bachelor Robinson



Section 1. African American Rhetorical theory



Edited by Vershawn Ashanti Young and Michelle Bachelor Robinson



Part II: The Blackest Hours-Origins 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



Section 2. Nobody Knows Our Name: African Orature in the American Diaspora



Edited and with an Introduction by Kermit E. Campbell



Section 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



Section 4. Language, Literacy, and Education



Edited and with an Introduction by Valerie Kinloch and Donja Thomas



Section 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



Section 6. Race Women and Black Feminisms



Edited and with an Introduction by Joy James



Section 7. Motions of Manhood



Edited and with an Introduction by Vershawn Ashanti Young



Section 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



Section 9. Caribbean Thought and Its Critique of Subjugation



Edited and with an Introduction by Aaron Kamugisha and Yanique Hume



Section 10. Black Technocultural Expressivity



Edited and with an Introduction by Dara N. Byrne



Section 11. Beat Rebels Corrupting Youth Against Babylon



Edited and with an Introduction by Greg Thomas



Section 12. Black Arts: Black Argument



Edited and with an Introduction by Michelle Bachelor Robinson