Like Wildfire - The Rhetoric of the Civil Rights Sit-ins

O'Rourke and Pace maintain that the legacies of the civil rights sit-ins have been many, complicated, and at times undervalued.

About the author

Lesli K. Pace is chair and associate professor of communication studies and modern languages at Southeast Missouri State University.

Summary

Analyses the power of civil rights sit-ins as rhetorical acts - persuasive campaigns designed to alter perceptions of apartheid social structures and to change the attitudes, laws, and policies that supported those structures.

Product details

• Authors: Sean Patrick (EDT)/ Pace O'rourke
• Assisted by: Sean Patrick O'Rourke (Editor), Lesli K Pace (Editor), Lesli K. Pace (Editor)
• Publisher: Univ of south carolina press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2020
• EAN: 9781643360669
• ISBN: 978-1-64336-066-9
• No. of pages: 392
• Series: Studies in Rhetoric / Communication; Studies in Rhetoric & Communic
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries