Crafting Equality: America's Anglo-African WordUniversity of Chicago Press, 15 May 1993 - 355 sayfa Philosophers and historians often treat fundamental concepts like equality as if they existed only as fixed ideas found solely in the canonical texts of civilization. In Crafting Equality, Celeste Michelle Condit and John Louis Lucaites argue that the meaning of at least one key word—equality—has been forged in the day-to-day pragmatics of public discourse. Drawing upon little studied speeches, newspapers, magazines, and other public discourse, Condit and Lucaites survey the shifting meaning of equality from 1760 to the present as a process of interaction and negotiation among different social groups in American politics and culture. They make a powerful case for the critical role of black Americans in actively shaping what equality has come to mean in our political conversation by chronicling the development of an African-American rhetorical community. The story they tell supports a vision of equality that embraces both heterogeneity and homogeneity as necessary for maintaining the balance between liberty and property. A compelling revision of an important aspect of America's history, Crafting Equality will interest anyone wanting to better understand the role public discourse plays in affecting the major social and political issues of our times. It will also interest readers concerned with the relationship between politics and culture in America's increasingly multi-cultural society. |
İçindekiler
The Rhetorical Foundations of American Equality | 3 |
The British Rhetoric of Revolt | 19 |
Vlll | 34 |
The AngloAmerican Revolutionary | 40 |
The AfricanAmerican Rhetoric of Equal | 69 |
Separate But Equal 18651896 | 101 |
Integrated Equality 18961960 | 147 |
The New Equalities 19601990 | 188 |
Afterword | 217 |
Research and Bibliography Essay | 233 |
Reference List of Newspapers | 249 |
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