Double-Consciousness and the Rhetoric of Barack Obama: The Price and Promise of Citizenship

by Robert E Terrill and Robert E. Terrill

Book Overview

Robert E. Terrill argues that, to invent a robust manner of addressing one another as citizens, Americans must learn to draw on the delicate indignities of racial exclusion that have stained citizenship since its inception. In Double-Consciousness and the Rhetoric of Barack Obama, Terrill demonstrates how President Barack Obama's public address models such a discourse.

Terrill contends that Obama's most effective oratory invites his...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611175313
• ISBN13: 9781611175318
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"