Crafting Equality America's Anglo-African Word

Name: Crafting Equality America's Anglo-African Word
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ISBN: 9780226114651

ISBN-10: 0226114651

ISBN-13: 9780226114651

Edition: 1993

Authors: Celeste Michelle Condit, John Louis Lucaites

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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…

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List price: $41.00
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 5/15/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 378
Size: 0.64" wide x 0.91" long x 0.09" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

Robert Harimanis professor of communication at Northwestern University and the author ofPolitical Style: The Artistry of Power.John Louis Lucaitesis professor of communication and culture at Indiana University. He is coauthor ofCrafting Equality: America’s Anglo-African Word.




Introduction: The Story of Equality



The Rhetorical Foundations of American Equality



The British Rhetoric of Revolt, 1760-1774



The Anglo-American Revolutionary Rhetoric, 1774-1789



The African-American Rhetoric of Equal Rights, 1774-1860



Rhetorical Investigations



Separate But Equal, 1865-1895



Integrated Equality, 1895-1960



The New Equalities, 1960-1990