Rhetoric
Behold the Proverbs of a People
The thirteen chapters of this book comprise an intriguing and informative entry into the world of proverb scholarship, illustrating that proverbs have always been and continue to be wisdom's international ...
The Measure of Our Days
Governor William F. Winter has enriched the political and cultural life of Mississippi and the United States for six decades—as an infantryman in World War II, as a Mississippi House representative (1947–1959), a ...
Red Scare Racism and Cold War Black Radicalism
During the early years of the Cold War, racial segregation in the American South became an embarrassing liability to the international reputation of the United States. For America to present itself as ...
American Indians and the Rhetoric of Removal and Allotment
Jason Edward Black examines the ways the US government’s rhetoric and American Indian responses contributed to the policies of Native–US relations throughout the nineteenth century’s removal and allotment eras. ...
Clockwork Rhetoric
This unique book explores how the aesthetic and cultural movement “Steampunk” persuades audiences and wins new acolytes. Steampunk is an aesthetic style grounded in the Victorian era, in clothing and acc ...
A Voice That Could Stir an Army
A sharecropper, a warrior, and a truth-telling prophet, Fannie Lou Hamer (1917–1977) stands as a powerful symbol not only of the 1960s black freedom movement, but also of the enduring human struggle against o ...
American Cyclone
When Theodore Roosevelt entered national politics as the Republicans' nominee for the vice presidency in 1900, he was only forty-one years old. However, he had caught the public's attention with the popular ...
Black Power, Yellow Power, and the Making of Revolutionary Identities
Images of upraised fists, afros, and dashikis have long dominated the collective memory of Black Power and its proponents. The “guerilla” figure—taking the form of the black-leather-clad revolutionary withi ...
Martin Luther King’s Biblical Epic
In his final speech “I've Been to the Mountaintop,” Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his support of African American garbage workers on strike in Memphis. Although some consider this oration King's finest, it ...
Culture after the Hurricanes
Contributions by Jay D. Edwards, Keagan LeJeune, Benjamin Morris, Jeffrey Schwartz, Peter G. Stillman, Adelaide H. Villmoare, and W. D. Wilkerson
Rebuilding in Louisiana and Mississippi after Hurricanes ...