Routledge Reader of African American Rhetoric

<p>The Routledge Reader of African American Rhetoric is a comprehensive compendium of primary texts that is designed for use by students teachers and scholars of rhetoric and for the general public interested in the history of African American communication. The volume and its companion website include dialogues creative works essays folklore music interviews news stories raps videos and speeches that are performed or written by African Americans. Both the book as a whole and the various selections in it speak directly to the artistic cultural economic gendered social and political condition of African Americans from the enslavement period in America to the present as well as to the Black Diaspora.</p>