"Acting as Freemen": Rhetoric, Race, and Reform in the Debate over Colonization in "Freedom's Journal", 1827-1828

Autor/in	Bacon, Jacqueline
Titel	"Acting as Freemen": Rhetoric, Race, and Reform in the Debate over Colonization in "Freedom's Journal", 1827-1828
Quelle	In: Quarterly Journal of Speech, 93 (2007) 1, S.58-83 (26 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0033-5630
Schlagwörter	African Americans; Land Settlement; Rhetoric; Freedom; Womens Studies; Newspapers; Whites; Race; United States History; Discourse Analysis + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Afroamerikaner; Siedlungsraum; Rhetorik; Freiheit; Newspaper; Zeitung; White; Weißer; Rasse; Abstammung; Diskursanalyse
Abstract	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.) (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10