Reframing activist issues. Kairos matters : reading Colin Kaepernick's protest through the lens of Frederick Douglass's "What to the slave is the Fourth of July?" / Meaghan Brewer -- "Wake work" : Frances E. W. Harper, Ida B. Wells, and embodied black feminist rhetoric in slavery and its aftermaths / Julie Prebel -- Analyzing the methodist debate over women's preaching with the classical interpretive stases / Martin Camper -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton's rhetorical missteps : metonymy and synecdoche in the women's suffrage arguments / Nancy Myers -- The late abolitionist rhetoric of Margaret Fuller : how she changed her mind / Mollie Barnes -- The rhetoric of work and the work of rhetoric : Booker T. Washington's campaign for Tuskegee and the Black South / Paul Stob -- "Nasty" women, progressive causes, and the rhetorical refusals of Lillie D. White / Wendy Hayden -- More than mere display : Susie King Taylor's Reminiscences of my life in camp with the 33d United States Colored Troops / Patty Wilde -- Arguing by numbers : Charlotte Odlum Smith's fight for recognition for women inventors / Sarah Hallenbeck -- Lucy Thompson's ethos and the Yurok fish dam ritual -- Elizabeth Lowry indigenous speakers : "race traitors" or rights activists? / Megan Vallowe -- Put it in the papers : rhetorical ecologies, labor rhetorics, and the Newsboys' Strike of 1899 / Brian Fehler -- Affection, intimacy, and labor organizing : queering public activism in the long nineteenth century / Brenda Glascott -- Locating rhetorical activities. Caricatures versus character studies : Helen Potter's mimetic advocacy for women's rights / Angela G. Ray -- Acting like rhetors : women's rights in amateur theatrical performances / Lisa Suter -- Embroidering history : the gendered memorial activism of the Daughters of the American Revolution / Jessica Enoch -- Beginning again, again : monument protest and rhetorics of African American memory work / Shevaun E. Watson -- Archiving our own historical moments : learning from the disrupted public memory of Temperance / Jessica A. Rose and Lynée Lewis Gaillet -- Aesthetic daughter and civic mother : collective identity and the visual-verbal rhetorics of the new Negro woman / Kristie S. Fleckenstein -- Crypto-feminist enthymemes in the periodical texts of Louise Clappe and Fanny Fern / Suzanne Bordelon and Elizabethada A. Wright -- Listening for contemporary echoes. "Who says what is . . . always tells a story" : white supremacist rhetoric, then and now / Patricia Roberts-Miller -- the rhetorical legacies of Chinese exclusion : appeals, protests, and becoming Chinese American / Morris Young -- Cultivating civic interfaith activism : rhetorical education at Andover Settlement House / Michael-John DePalma -- The long nineteenth century and the bend toward justice / Jacqueline Jones Royster.
Summary:
"Essays cover nineteenth-century American activists' rhetorics and their echoes in contemporary American activism using a variety of theoretical lenses, such as classical rhetorical tropes, feminism, gender, and race. In addition to texts such as letters, sermons, and speeches, a variety of rhetorical contexts such as monuments, strikes, protests, and theater are considered"-- Provided by publisher.
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