
The Words of Cesar Chavez
Texas A & M University Press
Published on 9. May 2002
Book
Hardback
232 pages
978-1-58544-169-3 (ISBN)
Description
Cesar Chavez's relentless campaign for social justice for farm workers and laborers in the United States marked a milestone in U.S. history. Through his powerful rhetoric and impassioned calls to action, Chavez transformed as well as persuaded and inspired his audiences. In this first published anthology, Richard J. Jensen and John C. Hammerback present Chavez in his own terms. Through this collection of words and analysis of his major speeches and writings, Jensen and Hammerback reveal the rhetorical qualities and underlying rhetorical dynamics of a master communicator. They also offer a rich source of the history of the farm workers' movement that Chavez led from the early 1960s to his death in 1993. The Words of Cesar Chavez offers an important new resource for scholars of public discourse, Chicano studies, and Chavez himself. It complements the authors' earlier study, The Rhetorical Career of Cesar Chavez, by providing the primary materials for that rhetorical profile of Chavez. Through his own words, Jensen and Hammerback present Chavez doing what he did best: teaching and influencing audiences who would enact his agenda to create a new and better world.
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Language
English
Place of publication
College Station
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
333 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-58544-169-3 (9781585441693)
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Persons
RICHARD J. JENSEN is a professor at the Greenspun School of Communication at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. JOHN C. HAMMERBACK is a professor of speech communications at California State University, Hayward.