Communication
Meaning-Making, Internalized Racism, and African American Identity
Presents research on how variations in African Americans’ racial self-concept affects meaning-making and internalized oppression.
Rhetorical Healing
Reveals the rhetorical strategies African American writers have used to promote Black women’s recovery and wellness through educational and entertainment genres and the conservative gender politics that are distributed when these efforts are sold for public consumption.
Tongue of Fire
Examines the influence of the notorious American anarchist “Red Emma” on the shifting social geography of sex and gender at the turn of the twentieth century.
Peaceful Persuasion
Offers a conceptual foundation for nonviolent rhetoric.
Lessons Learned from Popular Culture
Informative and entertaining introduction to the study of popular culture.
Selling War, Selling Hope
Details how presidents utilize mass media to justify foreign policy objectives in the aftermath of 9/11.
Green Voices
Essays addressing relatively unknown or unexamined speeches delivered by famous or influential environmental figures.
The Sitcom Reader, Second Edition
Updated version of an engaging overview of the television situation comedy.
Bikini-Ready Moms
Argues that expectations for mothering include a new core principle of "body work. "
A Rhetoric of Remnants
Examines the rhetoric in and around the New York State Asylum for Idiots in Syracuse, New York from 1854 to 1884.
Conversations on Servant-Leadership
Some of the world’s foremost thought leaders consider the role of leadership, love, and power in the midst of political and social upheaval.
Accounts, Excuses, and Apologies, Second Edition
Updated with a timely literature review and new case studies from sports, international politics, and third party image repair.
The Everyday Atlantic
Rethinks the concepts of nation, imperialism, and globalization by examining the everyday writing of the newspaper chronicle and blog in Spain and Latin America.
Endtimes?
A groundbreaking study of ten difficult years in the life of America's most important newspaper.
Zines in Third Space
Develops third-space theory by engaging with zines produced by feminists and queers of color.
Struggles for Equal Voice
Reveals how African Americans used cable television as a means of empowerment.
Standing in the Intersection
Unpacks the myriad ways rhetorical and communication theories and feminist intersectional approaches impact one another.
Communication and Public Participation in Environmental Decision Making
Looks at the critical role of community members and other interested parties in environmental policy decision making.
Mothers Who Deliver
New directions in thinking about mothering.
Active Voices
Explores the relationship between social movements and rhetorical theory and practice.
Composition and Copyright
Essential copyright resource for teachers and writers, particularly those involved in electronic or new media.
Family Violence
Contributors engage the communication issues associated with violence in families, including interspousal violence and violent parents and children.
The Passionate Empiricist
Explores John Quincy Adams’s oratorical work in support of government-funded science.
Non-discursive Rhetoric
Examines the role of image and affect in teaching with new digital technologies and multimedia composition.
City of Rhetoric
Examines the relationship of civic discourse to built environments through a case study of the Cabrini Green urban revitalization project in Chicago.