African American Rhetoric(s): Interdisciplinary Perspectives
- ISBN-10
- 0809327457
- ISBN-13
- 9780809327454
- Category
- Language Arts & Disciplines
- Pages
- 327
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007-02-12
- Publisher
- SIU Press
- Authors
- Elaine B Richardson, Ronald L Jackson
Description
This volume explores culturally and discursively developed forms of knowledge, communicative practices, and persuasive strategies rooted in freedom struggles by people of African ancestry in America.
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