Black identity
Subtitle: rhetoric, ideology, and nineteenth-century Black nationalism
By: Dexter B. Gordon.
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Carbondale
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
Subjects: Black nationalism -- United States -- History -- 19th century.; African Americans -- Race identity -- History -- 19th century.; African Americans -- Communication.; Rhetoric -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century.; English language -- United States -- Rhetoric.
Description: "Dexter B. Gordon's Black Identity: Rhetoric, Ideology, and Nineteenth-Century Black Nationalism explores the problem of racial alienation and the importance of rhetoric in the formation of black identity in the United States. Faced with alienation and disenfranchisement as a part of their daily experience, African Americans developed collective practices of empowerment that cohere as a constitutive rhetoric of black ideology.

Exploring the origins of that rhetoric, Gordon reveals how the ideology of black nationalism functions in contemporary African American political discourse."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-243) and index.
Table of contents: title: The materialization of a constitutive rhetoric of Black ideology; title: The narrative of oppression : preserving slavery; title: Early roots of Black nationalism : the birth of the Black subject; title: Contesting blackness : the rhetorical empowering of the Black subject; title: Black nationalism matures : the Black subject as public citizen; title: The ideology of Black nationalism and contemporary American culture.