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.

Info autore

Sean Patrick O'Rourke is a professor of rhetoric and American studies and director of the Center for Speaking and Listening at Sewanee: The University of the South. Lesli K. Pace is an associate professor of communication and program coordinator for the Communication Program at the University of Louisiana, Monroe.

Riassunto

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Sean Patrick (EDT)/ Pace O'rourke
• Con la collaborazione di: Sean Patrick O'Rourke (Editore), Lesli K Pace (Editore), Lesli K. Pace (Editore)
• Editore: Univ of south carolina press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 30.06.2020
• EAN: 9781643360669
• ISBN: 978-1-64336-066-9
• Pagine: 392
• Serie: Studies in rhetoric & communication; Studies in Rhetoric & Communic
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Media, comunicazione > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Pedagogia > Pedagogia sociale, assistenza sociale