Brown v. Board of Education at Fifty

A Rhetorical Retrospective

Häftad, Engelska, 2005

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Beskrivning

The story of Brown v. Board of Education is a half-century old now and has been retold many times by historians, legal scholars, sociologists, and others. This collection of persuasive scholarly essays examines, for the first time, the role rhetorical theory played in the development of educational segregation. Contributors consider the NAACPOs development of a series of graduate school cases to challenge Plessy, analyze the Brown decision itself, assess the state response to Brown, and critique the two Supreme Court decisions implementing the Brown decision. By illustrating how rhetorical strategies created, sustained, challenged, and, ultimately, reversed educational segregation in the United States, this work demonstrates the real value of the rhetorical perspective and provides encouragement to those who wish to help further develop this emerging field of judicial rhetoric.

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Utgivningsdatum:2005-10-11
Mått:167 x 228 x 18 mm
Vikt:322 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:220
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9780739114599

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Clarke Rountree is Department Chair of Communication Arts at the University of Alabama in Huntsville.

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The chapters complement each other and provide additional insight when read together. By illustrating how rhetorical strategies created, sustained, challenged, and, ultimately, reversed educational segregation in the United States, the collection demonstrates the real value of the rhetorical perspective.

Innehållsförteckning

1 Introduction2 Revisiting the Case ofPlessy v. Ferguson3 Dissent as Prophecy: Justice John Marshall Harlan's Dissent inPlessy v. Ferguson as the Religious Rhetoric of Law4 Setting the Stage forBrown v. Board of Education: The NAACP's Litigation Campaign Against the "Separate But Equal" Doctrine5 From Natural to Cultural Inferiorirty: The Symbolic Reconstruction of White Supremacy in Brown v. Board of Education6 The Rhetorica of Virginia's Massive Resistance Movement7 The Supreme Court's Rhetoric of Legitimization