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  • Double-Consciousness and the Rhetoric of Barack Obama

    The Price and Promise of Citizenship

    by Robert E. Terrill ...
    Series series Studies in Rhetoric & Communication
    "This incisive work" examining Obama's speeches and the theories of W.E.B. DuBois "illuminates the influences of words and ideas" ( Choice).The racial history of US citizenship is vital to our understanding of both citizenship and race. Robert E. Terrill argues that, to invent a robust manner of addressing one another as citizens, Americans must draw on the indignities of racial exclusion that ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tricksters of Gotham

    The Joker, The Batman, and The Christopher Nolan Trilogy

    by Robert E. Terrill ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication
    Tricksters of Gotham explores the "trickster" tale through an in-depth look at Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy: Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, and The Dark Knight Rises.The trickster figure is an ancient and variable figure, versions of which populate the myths and folklore of many human cultures worldwide. Conceptualising the trilogy as a single aggregate text with a clear narrative arc, the ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Purpose, Practice, and Pedagogy in Rhetorical Criticism

    by Edwin Black, Celeste M. Condit, Ryan Erik McGeough, Martin J. Medhurst, Ned O'Gorman, Samantha M. Senda-Cook, Marilyn J. Young, Raymie E. McKerrow, Dana L. Cloud, Jason Edward Black, J. Michael Hogan, Andrew A. King, Robert E. Terrill, Kathleen J. Turner ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Political Communication
    This edited volume fills a void in the literature concerning the purpose, practice, and pedagogy associated with performing rhetorical criticism. Literature regarding these issues—predominantly purpose—exists primarily as scattered journal articles and as sections within chapters of textbooks on rhetorical criticism. This book brings together 15 established rhetorical critics, each of whom offers ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

  • Reconsidering Obama

    Reflections on Rhetoric

    Edited by Robert E. Terrill ...
    Series Book 34 - Frontiers in Political Communication
    Perhaps no other presidential candidate or sitting president has attracted as much attention from rhetorical critics as Barack Obama. Much of this work was conceived and written during Obama’s initial presidential campaign, or relatively early in his two terms in office. This book provides rhetorical critics an opportunity to revisit their published work on Obama in light of events that have ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Malcolm X

    Edited by Robert E. Terrill ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to American Studies
    Malcolm X is one of the most important figures in the twentieth-century struggle for equality in America. With the passing of time, and changing attitudes to race and religion in American society, the significance of a public figure like Malcolm X continues to evolve and to challenge. This Companion presents new perspectives on Malcolm X's life and legacy in a series of specially commissioned ... Read more

    $26.29 USD

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  • Reading Obama

    Dreams, Hope, and the American Political Tradition

    by James T. Kloppenberg ...
    A leading intellectual historian traces the origins of Barack Obama’s ideasDerided by the Right as dangerous and by the Left as spineless, Barack Obama puzzles observers. In Reading Obama, James T. Kloppenberg reveals the sources of Obama's ideas and explains why his principled aversion to absolutes does not fit contemporary partisan categories. Obama's commitments to deliberation and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Constructing Public Opinion

    How Political Elites Do What They Like and Why We Seem to Go Along with It

    by Justin Lewis ...
    Is polling a process that brings "science" into the study of society? Or are polls crude instruments that tell us little about the way people actually think? The role of public opinion polls in government and mass media has gained increasing importance with each new election or poll taken.Here Lewis presents a new look at an old tradition, the first study of opinion polls using an ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Obama and the Biracial Factor

    The Battle for a New American Majority

    Edited by Andrew J Jolivette ...
    Since the election in 2008 of Barack Obama to the Presidency of the United States there have been a plethora of books, films, and articles about the role of race in the election of the first person of color to the White House. None of these works though delves into the intricacies of Mr. Obama's biracial background and what it means. Obama and the Biracial Factor is the first book to explore the ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

  • Sociocultural Studies in Education

    Critical Thinking for Democracy

    by Richard A Quantz ...
    Sociocultural Studies in Education: Critical Thinking for Democracy fills a void in the education of educators and citizens in a democracy. It explores some of the fundamentals around which disagreements in education arise. It presents a process with which those new to these debates can understand often confusing and entwined sets of facts and logics. This book leads the reader through some ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • The Education of Barack Obama

    From Reading Obama

    by James T. Kloppenberg ...
    Series series Princeton Shorts
    If you really want to know what makes Barack Obama tick, you need to understand his education. James T. Kloppenberg explains the rich American intellectual tradition that shapes Obama's beliefs and influences his actions--particularly his aversion to absolutes and his commitment to compromise. This look at Obama's education is a deeply rewarding education in itself.Princeton Shorts are brief ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The New Black

    What Has Changed--and What Has Not--with Race in America

    Edited by Guy-Uriel Charles, Kenneth W. Mack ...
    The election and reelection of Barack Obama ushered in a litany of controversial perspectives about the contemporary state of American race relations. In this incisive volume, some of the country's most celebrated and original thinkers on race—historians, sociologists, writers, scholars, and cultural critics—reexamine the familiar framework of the civil rights movement with an eye to redirecting ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Liberia

    The Violence of Democracy

    by Mary H. Moran ...
    Series series The Ethnography of Political Violence
    Liberia, a small West African country that has been wracked by violence and civil war since 1989, seems a paradoxical place in which to examine questions of democracy and popular participation. Yet Liberia is also the oldest republic in Africa, having become independent in 1847 after colonization by an American philanthropic organization as a refuge for "Free People of Color" from the United ... Read more

    $28.99 USD