African American women's rhetoric : the search for dignity, personhood, and honor / Deborah F. Atwater.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Race, rites, and rhetoric.
Main Author: Atwater, Deborah F., 1949-
Language:English
Published: Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, [2009], ©2009.
Series:Race, rites, and rhetoric.
Subjects:
African American women > Language.
African American women > Social conditions.
Rhetoric > United States > History.
English language > Rhetoric > History.
English language > Social aspects > United States.
Women > United States > Language.
Women > United States > Social conditions.
African Americans > Languages.
African Americans > Social conditions.
Physical Description:ix, 175 pages ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Awakenings
  • And the truth shall set you free
  • African American women in the Civil War and Reconstruction
  • Leading to World War I
  • World War II and the lives of working class African American women
  • The era of the modern civil rights movement : the struggle for rights continues
  • African American women in contemporary politics and political organizations
  • Contemporary times : African American women and hip-hop
  • The struggle continues : steps to implementing change.