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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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Hearing the Hurt

Rhetoric, Aesthetics, and Politics of the New Negro Movement

University of Alabama Press

Hearing the Hurt is an examination of how the New Negro movement, also known as the Harlem Renaissance, provoked and sustained public discourse and deliberation about black culture and identity in the early twentieth century.
 

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Poets Beyond the Barricade

Rhetoric, Citizenship, and Dissent after 1960

University of Alabama Press

A study of how poetry and discussions of it shape public consciousness, from the socially volatile era of the 1960s to the War on Terror today.

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What Are Stem Cells?

Definitions at the Intersection of Science and Politics

University of Alabama Press

In recent years political, religious, and scientific communities have waged an ethical debate regarding the development and research of embryonic stem cells. On the one hand, does the manipulation of embryonic stem cells destroy human life? On the other hand, do limitations imposed on stem cell research harm the patients who might otherwise benefit?

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Global Memoryscapes

Contesting Remembrance in a Transnational Age

University of Alabama Press

Global Memoryscapesis a collection of eight essays examining the effects of a global society on the collective memories and identities of individual cultures.

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Modern Occult Rhetoric

Mass Media and the Drama of Secrecy in the Twentieth Century

University of Alabama Press

A broadly interdisciplinary study of the pervasive secrecy in America cultural, political, and religious discourse.

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The House of My Sojourn

Rhetoric, Women, and the Question of Authority

University of Alabama Press

Envisions the relationship between women and rhetoric as a house: a structure erected in ancient Greece by men that, historically, has made room for women but has also denied them the authority and agency to speak from within

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Baseball and Rhetorics of Purity

The National Pastime and American Identity During the War on Terror

University of Alabama Press

An investigation into the culture and mythology of baseball, a study of its limits and failures, and an invitation to remake the game in a more democratic way

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Places of Public Memory

The Rhetoric of Museums and Memorials

University of Alabama Press

A sustained and rigorous consideration of the intersections of memory, place, and rhetoric
 

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Scientific Characters

Rhetoric, Politics, and Trust in Breast Cancer Research

University of Alabama Press

   
Scientific Characters chronicles the contests over character, knowledge, trust, and truth in a politically charged scientific controversy that erupted after a 1994 Chicago Tribune headline: “Fraud in Breast Cancer Research: Doctor Lied on Data for Decade.” Moving back and forth between news coverage, medical journals, letters to the editor, and oncology pamphlets, Lisa Keränen draws insights from rhetoric, literary studies, sociology, and science studies to analyze the roles of character in shaping the outcomes of the “Datagate” controversy.

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Public Modalities

University of Alabama Press

Illustrates a modalities approach to the study of publics

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Making Camp

Rhetorics of Transgression in U.S. Popular Culture

University of Alabama Press

The rhetorical power of camp in American popular culture

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Rhetorical Homologies

Form, Culture, Experience

University of Alabama Press
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Toxic Tourism

Rhetorics of Pollution, Travel, and Environmental Justice

University of Alabama Press

The first book length study of the environmental justice movement, tourism, and the links between race, class, and waste

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Framing Public Memory

University of Alabama Press

A collection of essays by prominent scholars from many disciplines on the construction of public memories

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The Prettier Doll

Rhetoric, Discourse, and Ordinary Democracy

University of Alabama Press

Essays in the The Prettier Doll focus on the same local controversy: in 2001,a third-grade girl in Colorado submitted an experiment to the school science fair. She asked 30 adults and 30 fifth-graders which of two Barbie dolls was prettier.

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Rhetorical Knowledge in Legal Practice and Critical Legal Theory

University of Alabama Press

A clear summary of contemporary rhetorical philosophy and its intersections with hermeneutics and critical theory

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Game Work

Language, Power, and Computer Game Culture

University of Alabama Press

Video and computer games in their cultural contexts

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Democracy and America's War on Terror

University of Alabama Press

Democracy and America's War on Terror brings the rhetorical dimension of democracy to bear on American culture in the divisive age of terrorism.

It will be of interest to public policymakers and informed general readers as well as students and scholars in the fields of rhetoric, political theory/philosophy, democratic theory, U.S. foreign relations/policy, war and peace studies, terrorism, and cultural studies.

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