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Stepping Into Zion

Hatzaad Harishon, Black Jews, and the Remaking of Jewish Identity

University of Alabama Press

Considers the question “Who is a Jew?”— a critical rhetorical issue with far-reaching consequences for Jews and non-Jews alike

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Conceiving Normalcy

Rhetoric, Law, and the Double Binds of Infertility

University of Alabama Press

This ground-breaking rhetorical analysis examines a 1987 Massachusetts law affecting infertility treatment and the cultural context that makes such a law possible

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Reclaiming Queer

Activist and Academic Rhetorics of Resistance

University of Alabama Press

An examination of the rhetorical linkage of queer theory in the academy with street-level queer activism in the 1980s and early 1990s

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Rhetorical Secrets

Mapping Gay Identity and Queer Resistance in Contemporary America

University of Alabama Press

Gay male identity as a product of rhetoric and public discourse in modern America.

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The Border Crossed Us

Rhetorics of Borders, Citizenship, and Latina/o Identity

University of Alabama Press

Explores efforts to restrict and expand notions of US citizenship as they relate specifically to the US-Mexico border and Latina/o identity

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Soapbox Rebellion

The Hobo Orator Union and the Free Speech Fights of the Industrial Workers of the World, 1909-1916

University of Alabama Press

Soapbox Rebellion, a new critical history of the free speech fights of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), illustrates how the lively and colorful soapbox culture of the “Wobblies” generated novel forms of class struggle.
 

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Rhetoric and the Republic

Politics, Civic Discourse, and Education in Early America

University of Alabama Press

Casts a revealing light on modern cultural conflicts through the lens of rhetorical education.

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In the Name of Necessity

Military Tribunals and the Loss of American Civil Liberties

University of Alabama Press

Analyses the ways American leaders have justified the use of military tribunals, the suspension of due process, and the elimination of habeas corpus


 

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Founding Fictions

University of Alabama Press

An extended analysis of how Americans imagined themselves as citizens between 1764 and 1845
 

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Border Rhetorics

Citizenship and Identity on the US-Mexico Frontier

Edited by D. Robert DeChaine; Introduction by D. Robert DeChaine; Afterword by John Louis Lucaites
University of Alabama Press

Undertakes a wide-ranging examination of the US-Mexico border as it functions in the rhetorical production of civic unity in the United States
 

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