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Ethiopia Is Now: J. A. Rogers And The Rhetoric Of Black Anticolonialism During The Great Depression, Aric Putnam Oct 2007

Ethiopia Is Now: J. A. Rogers And The Rhetoric Of Black Anticolonialism During The Great Depression, Aric Putnam

Strategic Communication Studies Faculty Publications

The Italian invasion of Ethiopia in 1935 inspired grass roots political activism in black America. To understand how this foreign policy issue became such a pressing domestic concern for black Americans, this essay analyzes an influential interpretation of the crisis, a pamphlet by J. A. Rogers entitled The Real Facts About Ethiopia. I argue that Rogers's text critiques the nature of race under colonialism by illustrating how state boundaries and racial categories are coordinate, strategic operations of colonial power. Second, I demonstrate how the text contrasts this parochial racial context with an alternative framework in which identity can be performed, …


Typed Document: Classroom Notes, Edna Louise Saffy Aug 2007

Typed Document: Classroom Notes, Edna Louise Saffy

Saffy Collection - All Textual Materials

Miscellaneous class notes August 28- September 27, 2007.


Typed Document: Classroom Notes, Edna Louise Saffy Aug 2007

Typed Document: Classroom Notes, Edna Louise Saffy

Saffy Collection - All Textual Materials

Dr. Saffy's notes for classes held 8:00 Tuesday and Thursday, August 30-September 25, 2007.


Lift Every Voice: African American Oratory, 1787-1900. – Book Review, Amilcar Shabazz Jul 2007

Lift Every Voice: African American Oratory, 1787-1900. – Book Review, Amilcar Shabazz

Amilcar Shabazz

This review of was originally published in in Black Issues in Higher Education, April 16, 1998, entitled “Putting Black Voices In Print.” It is a review essay of Lift Every Voice: African American Oratory by Philip S. Foner and Robert J. Branham.


Accounts Of Violence From Arabs And Israelis On Abc-Tv’S Panel Discussion From Jerusalem, Richard Buttny, Donald G. Ellis Mar 2007

Accounts Of Violence From Arabs And Israelis On Abc-Tv’S Panel Discussion From Jerusalem, Richard Buttny, Donald G. Ellis

Communication and Rhetorical Studies - All Scholarship

The North American network, ABC-Television, broadcast the news-panel program, Nightline, from Jerusalem during the beginning days of the Second Intifada. One of the main themes of this discussion was the violence, pain, and trauma—the civilians killed or wounded, the military’s actions, and how it all started. Even the horrible facts of violence must be told or narrated and discussed for its morality, causes, consequences, responsibility, and political ramifications. In this sense, violence is discursive. How violence gets told, how versions get constructed or contested is our focus. Participants used the communicative practices of invoking membership categories and activity terms and …


A Liminal Examination Of Always Already Meaning Within Language, James Richard Starr Jan 2007

A Liminal Examination Of Always Already Meaning Within Language, James Richard Starr

Theses Digitization Project

This thesis juxtaposes Plato's allegory of the cave with Jacques Derrida's concept of the always already aspect of meaning, a concept derived from Ferdinand de Saussure's work. This theoretical investigation examines the implications of universal Signified forms of word meanings for postmodern composition theory.


Blaming Bush: A Functional Analysis Of Political Cartoons, Stephanie Kelley-Romano, V Westgate Dec 2006

Blaming Bush: A Functional Analysis Of Political Cartoons, Stephanie Kelley-Romano, V Westgate

Stephanie Kelley-Romano

No abstract provided.


Linking Identity And Dialect Through Stancetaking, Barbara Johnstone Dec 2006

Linking Identity And Dialect Through Stancetaking, Barbara Johnstone

Barbara Johnstone

No abstract provided.


Language In Us Society (Spring 2007 Syllabus), Adam Hodges Dec 2006

Language In Us Society (Spring 2007 Syllabus), Adam Hodges

Adam Hodges

LING 1000 is a survey course that provides a non-technical exploration of the ways that language is used in America. It emphasizes language as a social institution and how values and goals of both public institutions and private groups shape, and are shaped by language and its use.


John Gibson, Fiction And The Weave Of Life, David J. Depew Dec 2006

John Gibson, Fiction And The Weave Of Life, David J. Depew

David J Depew

No abstract provided.


Introduction: Discourse, War And Terrorism, Adam Hodges, Chad Nilep Dec 2006

Introduction: Discourse, War And Terrorism, Adam Hodges, Chad Nilep

Adam Hodges

Discourse since September 11, 2001 has constrained and shaped public discussion and debate surrounding terrorism worldwide. Social actors in the Americas, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and elsewhere employ the language of the “war on terror” to explain, react to, justify and understand a broad range of political, economic and social phenomena. As outlined in this introductory chapter, this volume explores the discursive production of identities, the shaping of ideologies, and the formation of collective understandings in response to 9/11 in the United States and around the world.


Review Of Ruth Wodak And Paul Chilton's (2005) A New Agenda In (Critical) Discourse Analysis, Adam Hodges Dec 2006

Review Of Ruth Wodak And Paul Chilton's (2005) A New Agenda In (Critical) Discourse Analysis, Adam Hodges

Adam Hodges

No abstract provided.


The Political Economy Of Truth In The 'War On Terror' Discourse: Competing Visions Of An Iraq/Al Qaeda Connection, Adam Hodges Dec 2006

The Political Economy Of Truth In The 'War On Terror' Discourse: Competing Visions Of An Iraq/Al Qaeda Connection, Adam Hodges

Adam Hodges

The textual analysis in this paper examines an interview with Vice-President Dick Cheney by Gloria Borger on CNBC’s 2004 Capital Report. The interview took place on 17 June 2004, the day after the 9/11 Commission released Staff Statement No. 15, a twelve page preliminary report that concluded no ‘‘collaborative relationship’’ existed between Iraq and al-Qaeda. The aim of the analysis is to show how the struggle over ‘‘truth’’ unfolds in micro-level discursive interaction and to underscore the way this process is embedded within and contributes to the circulation of truth claims associated with the macro-level War on Terror Discourse (WoTD).


Review Of Jan Blommaert's (2005) Discourse: A Critical Introduction, Adam Hodges Dec 2006

Review Of Jan Blommaert's (2005) Discourse: A Critical Introduction, Adam Hodges

Adam Hodges

No abstract provided.