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RHETORICAL HISTORIES OF SOCIAL MOVEMENTS IN THE U.S. IBD

COGNELLA ACADEMIC PUBLISHING
12 / 2024
9781793567390
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Sinopsis

Written by experts in the field,áRhetorical Histories of Social Movements in the U.S.áprovides readers with a rhetorical account of American social movements from the U.S. War for Independence to #BlackLivesMatter.In nine movement-specific chapters, readers explore the history and rhetorical aspects of early U.S. movements, including the War for Independence, abolition, and womenâÇÖs suffrage, labor, socialist, and communist movements, the Civil Rights and Black freedom movements, Latine and immigrant struggles, womenâÇÖs movements, gay rights and queer liberation movements, antiwar and student movements of the 1960s, disability rights and justice movements, and ecological and environmental justice movements. Featuring a uniquely rhetorical focus, the book examines how specific movements have crafted messages, identities, and organizations to exert social influence in response to overweening power.The field of rhetorical studies has lacked a comprehensive, integrated, and distinctlyárhetoricaláhistory of the movements our students need to know about. This book is designed to address that gap.Rhetorical Histories of Social Movements in the U.S.áis designed to complementáA New Rhetoric of Social Movementsáby Dana L. Cloud. It can also stand alone or supplement any other theoretical social movement text.

PVP
60,50