This website goes hand-in-hand with the course syllabus and introduces you to critical practices of Black Rhetoric and Black Language. We will follow some of the more traditional practices of African American rhetorical study and closely examine persuasive strategies in multiple Black public texts (song, speech, tweet, meme, painting, letter, essay, etc.) We will focus on Black activist groups, community organizers, performers, artists, writers, and speakers to ask ourselves: how do Black Rhetors dream new futures in unjust worlds? Our key themes will include: Black gender/ sexuality/ intersectional justice, the sacred-secular continuum, political economies, digital Blackness, Blues-to-Hip Hop lineages, and the history of Black language and literacy. As a community, we identify Black life as infamous and intimate, loud and quiet, past and present, well-known and forgotten, and we will challenge ourselves to see and feel how Black Rhetoric helps us achieve more critical visions and praxis for an intersectional racial justice. Various course materials are housed at this website and you, too, will have the opportunity to digitally curate Black Rhetorical histories. In the theme song for this page (in the player above), "Check The Technique," Guru from Gang Starr tells us that "it's more than just style, it's conceptual genius." Let that statement be our guiding star!
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