Understanding African American Rhetoric

Dedication Foreword Introduction Acknowedgements SECTION ONE: Classical Egyptian Origins of African American Rhetoric 1 Nommo, Kawaida and Communicative Practice: Bringing Good Into the World 2. The Spiritual Essence of African American Rhetoric SECTION TWO: Manifestations of African American Rhetoric and Orality 3. African American Orality: Expanding Rhetoric 4. Jesus is a Rock: Spirituals as Lived Experiences 5. The Use of Public Space as Cultural Communicator: How Museums Reconstruct and Reconnect Cultural Memory SECTION THREE: Politics of Defining African American Rhetoric 6. The Word at Work: Ideological and Epistemological Dynamics in Reality Construction 7. The Politics of (In)visibility in African American Rhetorical Scholarship: A (Re) Quest for an African World View 8. Afrocentricity as Metatheory: A dialogic exploration of its principles SECTION FOUR: African American Rhetorical Analyses of Struggle and Resistance 9. Africological Theory and Criticism: Reconceptualizing Communication Constructs 10. Every Man Fights for His Freedom: The Rhetoric of African American Resistance in the Mid-19th Century 11. The Duty of the Civilized is to Civilise the Uncivilised: Tropes of Black Nationalism in the Messages of Five Percent Rappers 12. Death Narratives from the Killing Fields: Narrative Criticism and the Case of Tupac Shakur SECTION FIVE: Trends and Innovations in Analyzing Contemporary African American Rhetoric 13. Lauryn Hill As Lyricist and Womanist 14. The Kink Factor: A Womanist Discourse Analysis of African American Mother/Daughter Perspectives on Negotiating Black Hair/Body Politics 15. An Afrocentric Rhetorical Analysis of Johnnie Cochran's Closing Arguments in the OJ Simpson Trial 16. Afrocentric Rhetoric Transcending Audiences and Contexts: A Case Study of Preacher, Politician Emanuel Cleaver II SECTION SIX: Visions for Research in African American Rhetoric 17. The Future of African American Rhetoric 18. The Discourse of African American Women: A Case for Extended Paradigms About the Contributors