Michelle Obama: First Lady, American Rhetor is an edited anthology that explores the persona and speech-making of the country's first African American first lady. The result of these thought-provoking essays is an interdisciplinary text that explores the First Lady from a rhetorical and cultural point of view. Authors analyze her Democratic National Convention speeches, her brand as First Lady, her communication from her latest trip to Africa, her agenda rhetoric in Let's Move! and Reach Higher, and her coming out as a Black feminist intellectual when she spoke at Maya Angelou's memorial service. Readers will recognize Michelle Obama as a rhetor of our times-a woman who influences America at the intersections of gender, race, and class and who is representative of what women are today.

Michelle Obama: First Lady, American Rhetor is an edited anthology that explores the persona and speech-making of the country's first African American first lady. The result of these thought-provoking essays is an interdisciplinary text that explores the First Lady from a rhetorical and cultural point of view. Authors analyze her Democratic National Convention speeches, her brand as First Lady, her communication from her latest trip to Africa, her agenda rhetoric in Let's Move! and Reach Higher, and her coming out as a Black feminist intellectual when she spoke at Maya Angelou's memorial service. Readers will recognize Michelle Obama as a rhetor of our times-a woman who influences America at the intersections of gender, race, and class and who is representative of what women are today.

If, fundamentally, education is about change and transformation, this is all the more true where teaching and learning about diversity is concerned. Yet teachers rarely know what influence their instruction has had on the lives of their students. Given the social importance of this enterprise, there is a compelling need to evaluate diversity education and student outcomes. This edited volume provides insights into the teaching and learning experiences of diversity educators and their students. College-level teachers from such disciplines as biology, social work, sex education, communication, political science, English literature, and criminology share their general philosophy of teaching and how teaching diversity offers insights and challenges in the classroom. This book uniquely integrates revealing letters from former students within each teacher's chapter. These letters offer observations and reflections upon key lessons learned or ideas that were challenged in the teacher's classroom and how these lessons are connected to or disconnected from their professional and/or personal lives. We also see how the teachers in turn have modified their practice in the light of their students' feedback. The editors revisit the chapters to find the emergent Best Practices as take-aways for the reader. This book will be useful to college teachers who currently teach courses with a diversity-focused content, and to instructors who plan to incorporate diversity content within an existing course. Directors of teaching and learning centers, coordinators of doctoral programs, and TA centers will also find helpful information and insights about pedagogy, process, and learning outcomes.

Race relations remain an important and salient issue, particularly in such diverse societies as the United States. With all the benefits of life in a multi-cultural setting, drawbacks are inevitable, with conflict being among the most prevalent.   Such conflicts are fueled by real and perceived differences among people in their manner, custom, values, and beliefs. Interracial Communication:  Contexts, Communities, and Choices offers opportunities for the reader to engage in thought, reflection, and dialogue around many of the issues that frame and inform interracial communication which necessarily affect the quality of these intergroup relationships. Filling a long-standing gap in the interracial communication conceptual and pedagogical literature, Interracial Communication:  Contexts, Communities, and Choices Arranges 26 original essays by context:  Identity, Relationships and Families, Communities, Academic Stories, Politics, and Mass Media. Explores a range of communication topics among, between, and across racial groups.  Gives the instructor flexibility to arrange readings independently across the course syllabus.  Features an abstract, key words list, and discussion questions in each chapter to further engage the reader beyond the issues and themes presented in the reading.