Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 3-17
Author(s):  
Bjørn F. Stillion Southard
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Racial Identity ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Middle Ground ◽  
Antebellum America ◽  
African American Rhetoric ◽  
The Status ◽  
American Rhetoric

This chapter establishes the historical and scholarly context of Peculiar Rhetoric. Colonizationists sought to provide a middle ground between abolition and the status quo practice of slavery. The discourse that emerged provides insights into the nuances and fissures of racial identity in antebellum America. The concept of peculiar rhetoric draws from the scholarship on African American rhetoric, diaspora, and deliberation.

Counterlanguage powermoves in African American women’s language practice

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcyliena H. Morgan
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Black Women ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Speech Community ◽  
Language Practice ◽  
The Status ◽  
Linguistic Power ◽  
The Many

This essay considers some of the insight we have gathered about language, feminism, racism and power. In many respects, it celebrates the linguistic power of the many theories about how Black women navigate intersectionality where racism and sexism intermingle, suggesting that our analyses should always recognise that a lethal combination of factors are in play. Black women, in particular, actively insist on forms of language and discourse that both represent and create their world through words, expressions and verbal routines that are created within and outside of the African American speech community to confront injustice. One example involves the verb ‘play,’ which I argue often functions as a power statement or ‘powermove’ that demands respect while presenting a threat to the status quo. This use of ‘play’ is the opposite of inconsequential games of play or joking.

scholarly journals Collaborative Complexities: Co-Authorship, Voice, and African American Rhetoric in Oral History Community Literacy Projects

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurie Grobman ◽  
Meeghan Orr ◽  
Chris Meagher ◽  
Cassandra Yatron ◽  
Jonathan Shelton
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Community Literacy ◽  
African American Rhetoric ◽  
American Rhetoric
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