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No Future in This Country: The Prophetic Pessimism of Bishop Henry
McNeal Turner is a history of the career of Bishop Henry McNeal
Turner (1834-1915), specifically focusing on his work from 1896 to
1915. Drawing on the copious amount of material from Turner's
speeches, editorial, and open and private letters, Andre E. Johnson
tells a story of how Turner provided rhetorical leadership during a
period in which America defaulted on many of the rights and
privileges gained for African Americans during Reconstruction.
Unlike many of his contemporaries during this period, Turner did
not opt to proclaim an optimistic view of race relations. Instead,
Johnson argues that Turner adopted a prophetic persona of a
pessimistic prophet who not only spoke truth to power but, in so
doing, also challenged and pushed African Americans to believe in
themselves. At this time in his life, Turner had no confidence in
American institutions or that the American people would live up to
the promises outlined in their sacred documents. While he argued
that emigration was the only way for African Americans to retain
their "personhood" status, he also would come to believe that
African Americans would never emigrate to Africa. He argued that
many African Americans were so oppressed and so stripped of agency
because they were surrounded by continued negative assessments of
their personhood that belief in emigration was not possible.
Turner's position limited his rhetorical options, but by adopting a
pessimistic prophetic voice that bore witness to the atrocities
African Americans faced, Turner found space for his oratory, which
reflected itself within the lament tradition of prophecy.
Choices & Connections combines current scholarship and
pedagogy, developed by a diverse community of expert voices, to
provide all students with foundational communication skills to
support their success in the human communication classroom and the
community.
Through life-changing stories, respected thinkers and authentic
presentations, Keynote promotes a deeper understanding of the world
and gives students the courage and means to express themselves in
English. Communication, collaboration and creative thinking drive
students towards real 21st century outcomes and encourage them to
respond to ideas and find their own voice. Both students and
teachers will emerge with new confidence, new ideas and a new
determination to communicate in this increasingly information-rich
world of Global English.
When Donald J. Trump announced his campaign for president in 2015,
journalists, historians, and politicians alike attempted to compare
his candidacy to that of Governor George C. Wallace. Like Trump,
Wallace, who launched four presidential campaigns between 1964 and
1976, utilized rhetoric based in resentment, nationalism, and anger
to sway and eventually captivate voters among America's white
majority. Though separated by almost half a century, the campaigns
of both Wallace and Trump broke new grounds for political
partisanship and divisiveness. In Fear, Hate, and Victimhood: How
George Wallace Wrote the Donald Trump Playbook, author Andrew E.
Stoner conducts a deep analysis of the two candidates, their
campaigns, and their speeches and activities, as well as their
coverage by the media, through the lens of demagogic rhetoric.
Though past work on Wallace argues conventional politics overcame
the candidate, Stoner makes the case that Wallace may in fact be a
prelude to the more successful Trump campaign. Stoner considers how
ideas about "in-group" and "out-group" mentalities operate in
politics, how anti-establishment views permeate much of the
rhetoric in question, and how expressions of victimhood often
paradoxically characterize the language of a leader praised for
"telling it like it is." He also examines the role of political
spectacle in each candidate's campaigns, exploring how media
struggles to respond to-let alone document-demagogic rhetoric.
Ultimately, the author suggests that the Trump presidency can be
understood as an actualized version of the Wallace presidency that
never was. Though vast differences exist, the demagogic positioning
of both men provides a framework to dissect these times-and perhaps
a valuable warning about what is possible in our highly digitized
information society.
Citizens, political theorists, and politicians alike insist that
political or partisan motives get in the way of real democracy.
Real democracy, we are convinced, is embodied by an ability to form
collective judgments in the interest of the whole. The Rhetorical
Surface of Democracy: How Deliberative Ideals Undermine Democratic
Politics, by Scott Welsh, argues instead that it is our easy
rejection of political motives, individual interests, and the
rhetorical pursuit of power that poses the greatest danger to
democracy. Our rejection of politics understood as a rhetorical
contest for power is dangerous because democracy ultimately rests
upon the perceived public legitimacy of public, political
challenges to authority and the subsequent reconstitution of
authority amid the impossibility of collective judgment. Hence,
rather than searching for allegedly more authentic democracy,
rooted in the pursuit of ever-illusive collective judgments, we
must find ways to come to terms with the persistence of rhetorical,
political contests for power as the essence of democracy itself.
Welsh argues that the impossibility of any kind of public judgment
is the fact that democracy must face. Given the impossibility of
public judgment, rhetorical competitions for political power are
not merely poor substitutes for an allegedly more authentic
democratic practice, but constitute the essence of democracy
itself. The Rhetorical Surface of Democracy is an iconoclastic
investigation of the democratic process and public discourse.
Drawing on a decade of their own research from the 2000 to 2012
U.S. presidential elections, Renita Coleman and Denis Wu explore
the image presentation of political candidates and its influence at
both aggregate and individual levels. When facing complex political
decisions, voters often rely on gut feelings and first impressions
but then endeavor to come up with a "rational" reason to justify
their actions. Image and Emotion in Voter Decisions: The Affect
Agenda examines how and why voters make the decisions they do by
examining the influence of the media's coverage of politicians'
images. Topics include the role of visual and verbal cues in
communicating affective information, the influence of demographics
on affective agenda setting, whether positive or negative tone is
more powerful, and the role of emotion in second-level agenda
setting. Image and Emotion in Voter Decisions will challenge
readers to think critically about political information processing
and a new way of systematically thinking about agenda setting in
elections.
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Through life-changing stories, respected thinkers and authentic
presentations, Keynote promotes a deeper understanding of the world
and gives students the courage and means to express themselves in
English. Communication, collaboration and creative thinking drive
students towards real 21st century outcomes and encourage them to
respond to ideas and find their own voice. Both students and
teachers will emerge with new confidence, new ideas and a new
determination to communicate in this increasingly information-rich
world of Global English.
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