Double-consciousness and the Rhetoric of Barack Obama - The Price and Promise of Citizenship

Argues that, in order to invent a robust manner of addressing one another as citizens, Americans must learn to draw on the delicate indignities of racial exclusion that have stained citizenship since its inception. In Double-Consciousness and the Rhetoric of Barack Obama, Robert E. Terrill demonstrates how President Barack Obama's public address models such a discourse.

About the author

Robert E. Terrill is an associate professor in the Department of Communication and Culture at Indiana University Bloomington. He earned his Ph.D. at Northwestern University in 1996 and focuses on the rhetorical criticism of African American public address. Terrill is the author of Malcolm X: Inventing Radical Judgment and editor of The Cambridge Companion to Malcolm X. His work has appeared in the Quarterly Journal of Speech, Rhetoric & Public Affairs, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Critical Studies in Media Communication, and Southern Communication Journal.

Summary

Argues that, in order to invent a robust manner of addressing one another as citizens, Americans must learn to draw on the delicate indignities of racial exclusion that have stained citizenship since its inception. In Double-Consciousness and the Rhetoric of Barack Obama, Robert E. Terrill demonstrates how President Barack Obama's public address models such a discourse.

Product details

• Authors: Robert E Terrill, Robert E. Terrill
• Publisher: Univ of south carolina press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2015
• EAN: 9781611175318
• ISBN: 978-1-61117-531-8
• Series: Studies in Rhetoric/Communication; Studies in Rhetoric/Communicat; Studies in Rhetoric/Communicat; Studies in Rhetoric/Communication
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Communication science