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  1. Rhetorical crossover
    the black presence in white culture
    Published: [2020]
    Publisher:  University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh

    "In music, crossover means that a song has moved beyond its original genre and audience into the general social consciousness. Rhetorical Crossover uses the same concept to theorize how the black rhetorical presence has moved in mainstream spaces in... more

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    "In music, crossover means that a song has moved beyond its original genre and audience into the general social consciousness. Rhetorical Crossover uses the same concept to theorize how the black rhetorical presence has moved in mainstream spaces in an era where African Americans were becoming more visible in white culture. Cedric Burrows argues that when black rhetoric moves into the dominant culture, white audiences appear welcoming to African Americans as long as they present an acceptable form of blackness for white tastes. The predominant culture has always constructed coded narratives on how the black rhetorical presence should appear and behave when in majority spaces. In response, African Americans developed their own narratives that revise and reinvent mainstream narratives while also reaffirming their humanity. Using an interdisciplinary model built from music, education, film, and social movement studies, Rhetorical Crossover details the dueling narratives about African Americans that percolate throughout the United States"--

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9780822946205
    Series: Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture
    Subjects: Amerikanisches Englisch; Kultur; Schwarze; Mainstream; Rhetorik
    Other subjects: African Americans / Language; Black English / United States; African Americans / Race identity; English language / Variation / United States; Americanisms; African Americans / Language; Americanisms; Black English; English language / Variation; United States
    Scope: xii, 171 Seiten, 24 cm
    Notes:

    Introduction: Too Black, Too Strong: The Black Rhetorical Presence -- "Hey, Man, You're Taking My Heritage": Rhetorical Crossover, R&B, and Dinah Washington -- Black Skin, White Discourse: Whitescripting and Cultroscripting Textbooks -- That's Entertainment? Whitescaping and Afroscaping Civil Rights Movies -- Whose Lives Matter? Whitesplaining and Afroplaining Public Discourse -- Conclusion. Paying the Toll: The Black Tax and the Black Rhetorical Presence