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Black identity : rhetoric, ideology, and nineteenth-century Black nationalism
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Black identity : rhetoric, ideology, and nineteenth-century Black nationalism

Author: Dexter B Gordon
Publisher: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, ©2003.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"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  Read more...
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Gordon, Dexter B., 1955-
Black identity.
Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c2003
(OCoLC)606948808
Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Dexter B Gordon
ISBN: 0809324857 9780809324859 0809324865 9780809324866
OCLC Number: 49320374
Description: xv, 256 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: 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.
Responsibility: Dexter B. Gordon.
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"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."--BOOK JACKET.

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schema:reviewBody""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."--BOOK JACKET."
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