Rhetorical Histories of Social Movements in the U.S.

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Written by experts in the field </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Rhetorical Histories of Social Movements in the U.S.</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> provides readers with a rhetorical account of American social movements from the U.S. War for Independence to #BlackLivesMatter.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>In nine movement-specific chapters readers explore the history and rhetorical aspects of early U.S. movements including the War for Independence abolition and women's suffrage; labor socialist and communist movements; the Civil Rights and Black freedom movements; Latine and immigrant struggles; women's movements; gay rights and queer liberation movements; antiwar and student movements of the 1960s; disability rights and justice movements; and ecological and environmental justice movements. Featuring a uniquely rhetorical focus the book examines how specific movements have crafted messages identities and organizations to exert social influence in response to overweening power.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>The field of rhetorical studies has lacked a comprehensive integrated and distinctly</span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> rhetorical</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> history of the movements our students need to know about. This book is designed to address that gap.</span></p><p></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Rhetorical Histories of Social Movements in the U.S.</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> is designed to complement </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>A New Rhetoric of Social Movements</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> by Dana L. Cloud. It can also stand alone or supplement any other theoretical social movement text.</span></p>