Rhetorical Histories of Social Movements in the U.S. by Dana L Cloud

Rhetorical Histories of Social Movements in the U.S. by Dana L Cloud

Written by experts in the field, Rhetorical Histories of Social Movements in the U.S. provides readers with a rhetorical account of American social movements from the U.S. War for Independence to #BlackLivesMatter.

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.

The field of rhetorical studies has lacked a comprehensive, integrated, and distinctly rhetorical history of the movements our students need to know about. This book is designed to address that gap

Rhetorical Histories of Social Movements in the U.S. is designed to complement A New Rhetoric of Social Movements by Dana L. Cloud. It can also stand alone or supplement any other theoretical social movement text.

Dana L. Cloud (Ph.D., University of Iowa) is Director of the School of Communication, Film, and Media Studies at the University of Cincinnati. She is the author of Consolation and Control in U.S. Politics and Culture: Rhetorics of Therapy; We ARE the Union: Dissent and Democratic Unionism at Boeing; and Reality Bites: Rhetoric and the Circulation of Truth Claims in U.S. Political Culture, among other articles, edited volumes, and book chapters. She is a longtime activist in movements for social justice. James L. Cherney is an associate professor of communication studies and the director of the communication core at the University of Nevada, Reno. J. David Cisneros is an associate professor in the Department of Communication and affiliate faculty in the Department of Latina/Latino Studies, the Center for Writing Studies, and the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory at the University of Illinois. Kristen E. Hoerl is associate professor of communication studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

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ISBN 13	9781793567390
ISBN 10	1793567395
Title	Rhetorical Histories of Social Movements in the U.S.
Author	Dana L Cloud
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Cognella Academic Publishing
Year published	2024-12-19
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