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ERIC Number: EJ763790
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2007-Feb
Pages: 26
Abstractor: Author
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ISSN: ISSN-0033-5630
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"Acting as Freemen": Rhetoric, Race, and Reform in the Debate over Colonization in "Freedom's Journal", 1827-1828
Bacon, Jacqueline
Quarterly Journal of Speech, v93 n1 p58-83 Feb 2007
This essay features a debate in "Freedom's Journal," the first African-American newspaper, in 1827 and 1828, concerning the proposals of the American Colonization Society. Arguments favoring colonization illuminate the ways in which whiteness informs and constrains the discourse of white self-professed reformers about race, nation, and public rhetoric. As constitutive rhetoric, the anti-colonization arguments of contributors to "Freedom's Journal" construct African Americans as agents, citizens, and empowered public rhetors. The exchange reveals key, often hidden aspects of the discourses of whites and of people of color about race and reform in the antebellum period and in the contemporary public sphere. (Contains 62 notes.)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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