English
ENGL 3404: African American Rhetorical Traditions
Lecture - 4 credits
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- Examines and organizes the ways that African Americans have historically maintained their humanity and negotiated freedom through discourse.
- Explores various discursive practices of African American discourse communities—such as the enslaved, abolitionists, feminists, nationalist/revolutionaries, and entertainers—to engage discussions about freedom, access to democracy, racial uplift, gender equity, and the discursive and recursive nature of racial identity.
- Studies historical contexts and current sociopolitical dynamics emphasizing the Black Jeremiad, civil rights rhetoric, the Black Power Movement, Black Feminist Thought, and Hip-Hop.
- This course is cross-listed with AFAM 34040, CRN 19058.
- If there are no seats available in this section, please check the cross-listed section as well.
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