Informed, Passionate, and Disorderly: Uncivil Rhetoric in a New Gilded Age

Autor/in	Welch, Nancy
Titel	Informed, Passionate, and Disorderly: Uncivil Rhetoric in a New Gilded Age
Quelle	In: Community Literacy Journal, 7 (2012) 1, S.33-51 (19 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1555-9734
Schlagwörter	Democracy; Activism; Political Attitudes; Citizen Participation; Dissent; Meetings; Conferences (Gatherings); Nuclear Energy; Public Officials; Discourse Communities; Audience Response; Public Opinion; Persuasive Discourse; United States History; Social Change; Strikes; Negative Attitudes; Cultural Pluralism; Power Structure; Rhetoric; Social Justice; Middle Class; Economic Factors; New York; Vermont + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Demokratie; Aktivismus; Politischer Protest; Political attitude; Politische Einstellung; 'Citizen participation; Citizens'' participation'; Bürgerbeteiligung; Dissens; Meeting; Tagung; Atomenergie; Kernenergie; Zuschauerverhalten; Öffentliche Meinung; Persuasion; Persuasive Kommunikation; Sozialer Wandel; Strike; Streik; Negative Fixierung; Kulturpluralismus; Rhetorik; Soziale Gerechtigkeit; Mittelschicht; Ökonomischer Faktor
Abstract	Little known about the now celebrated 1912 Bread and Roses strike is that prominent Progressive-era reformers condemned the strikers as "uncivil" and "violent." An examination of Bread and Roses' controversies reveals how a ruling class enlists middle-class sentiments to oppose social-justice arguments and defend a civil order--not for the good of democracy but against it. For today's teachers of public writing, the strikers' inspiring actions to push against civil boundaries and create democratic space can challenge us to rethink civility as an acontextual virtue and consider the class-struggle uses of unruly rhetoric for our new Gilded Age. (Contains 5 endnotes.) (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Community Literacy Journal. Department of Writing, Rhetoric, & Discourse, DePaul University, 802 West Belden Avenue, Chicago, IL 60614. Tel: 906-370-0206; Web site: http://communityliteracy.org/
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10