The materialization of a constitutive rhetoric of Black ideology -- The narrative of oppression : preserving slavery -- Early roots of Black nationalism : the birth of the Black subject -- Contesting blackness : the rhetorical empowering of the Black subject -- Black nationalism matures : the Black subject as public citizen -- The ideology of Black nationalism and contemporary American culture
Summary
"Dexter B. Gordon's Black Identity: Rhetoric, Ideology, and Nineteenth-Century Black Nationalism explores the problem of racial alienation and the importance of rhetoric in the formation of black identity in the United States. Faced with alienation and disenfranchisement as a part of their daily experience, African Americans developed collective practices of empowerment that cohere as a constitutive rhetoric of black ideology. Exploring the origins of that rhetoric, Gordon reveals how the ideology of black nationalism functions in contemporary African American political discourse."--Jacket
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-243) and index
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