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This book explores Christian messages, meanings, and their impact in a multicultural context, using a communication framework to help Christians and non-Christians alike navigate challenging issues surrounding ethnic and racial division in the United States today.

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This book examines the rhetorical/legal dynamics of the NAACPs twentieth-century struggle to overturn the separate but equal doctrine through school desegregation cases. It reveals that the Supreme Court relied not only on logical arguments but emotional and ethical appeals to reach Brown IIs with all deliberate speed decree.

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This book examines the rhetorical/legal dynamics of the NAACPs twentieth-century struggle to overturn the separate but equal doctrine through school desegregation cases. It reveals that the Supreme Court relied not only on logical arguments but emotional and ethical appeals to reach Brown IIs with all deliberate speed decree.

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In You Must Be Born Again: Phillis Wheatley as Prophetic Poet the author presents Phillis Wheatley as a preacher and theologian committed to transforming her world through her poetry. The result is a prophetic message of hope for the oppressed and corrective instruction for the institutional power structures.

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This book uses the 2015 Charleston shooting as a case study to analyze the connections between race, rhetoric, religion, and the growing trend of mass gun violence in the United States. The authors claim that this analysis fills a gap in rhetorical scholarship that can lead to increased understanding of the causes and motivations of these crimes.

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This book considers the 2015 Charleston mass shooting from a rhetorical perspective and offers an appraisal of the discourses that cradled and emerged from it. It argues that Charleston was different from other mass shootings in America and that the differences can be heard and seen in that rhetoric.

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This book examines the intersections of religion and race in the context of the Christian Right's responses to the presidency of Barack Obama. Perry argues that the context of the war on terror allowed long-standing arguments on the Christian Right to morph into conspiracy theories and adversarial claims directed at President Obama.

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This book analyzes ancient rhetoricians, Nazi Germany critics, and public intellectuals addressing 9/11 to show how renaming evil is a key response to the evil in language. It claims that rhetoric has always been a response to evil and suggests ways in which we can better take responsibility for our words.

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This book explores the use of the motif of hope within African American preaching during slavery (18031865) and the post-Civil War era (18651896). It discusses how the motif of hope in African American preaching has changed while in some instances remains the same with the changing of its historical context.

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This book explores the use of the motif of hope within African American preaching during slavery (18031865) and the post-Civil War era (18651896). It discusses how the motif of hope in African American preaching has changed while in some instances remains the same with the changing of its historical context.

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Reverend Albert Cleage Jr. and the Black Prophetic Tradition probes the sermonic material in Albert Cleage Jr.'s groundbreaking book, The Black Messiah (1969) and explores how and what the book has contributed to the broader scope of Black Liberation Theology and Black religious rhetoric in the past and present.

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This book examines the complex relationship between Black Lives Matter and All Lives Matter as it unfolds on social media and in offline interpersonal relationships. In so doing, it demonstrates the ongoing influence of history within the contemporary fight for social justice.

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This book examines the complex relationship between Black Lives Matter and All Lives Matter as it unfolds on social media and in offline interpersonal relationships. In so doing, it demonstrates the ongoing influence of history within the contemporary fight for social justice.

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This book highlights the rhetorical art form that exists in womanist preaching and womanist rhetoric by analyzing the sermons of five women who are considered exemplars of womanist preaching: Elaine M. Flake, Gina M. Stewart, Cheryl Kirk-Duggan, Melva L. Sampson, and Claudette A. Copeland.

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This book highlights the rhetorical art form that exists in womanist preaching and womanist rhetoric by analyzing the sermons of five women who are considered exemplars of womanist preaching: Elaine M. Flake, Gina M. Stewart, Cheryl Kirk-Duggan, Melva L. Sampson, and Claudette A. Copeland.

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This book examines rhetoric surrounding race and ethnicity in movies. By exploring the American movie industrys content, practices, and influences, Satchel calls for an interrogation of media conglomeration and convergence as potential global threats to democracy.

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This book examines rhetoric surrounding race and ethnicity in movies. By exploring the American movie industrys content, practices, and influences, Satchel calls for an interrogation of media conglomeration and convergence as potential global threats to democracy.

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Taking three women bishops as exemplars, this book argues that the concept of shalom offers a way for Christians to advocate for social justice in an increasingly multi-faith world.