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Logue, Cal M.; Garner, Thurmon – Southern Speech Communication Journal, 1988
Defines and contrasts the rhetorical status (individual's and groups' potential influence in society through symbols) of some Blacks and Whites under slavery, and analyzes the more powerful forms of persuasion employed by many Blacks during and after Reconstruction. (SR)
Descriptors: Blacks, Communication Research, Group Status, Persuasive Discourse
Reconstructing <Equality>: Culturetypal and Counter-Cultural Rhetorics in the Martyred Black Vision.

Lucaites, John Louis; Condit, Celeste Michelle – Communication Monographs, 1990
Examines Black Americans' attempts in the 1960s to achieve legitimacy and <equality>, defined as ideological commitment to promote "sameness" and "identity" explicitly through rhetoric of control. Investigates how the culturetypal rhetoric of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the counter-culture rhetoric of Malcolm X…
Descriptors: Black Culture, Blacks, Communication Research, Cultural Context