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Desegregation and the Rhetorical Fight for African American Citizenship Rights: The Rhetorical/Legal Dynamics of "With All Deliberate Speed"

Desegregation and the Rhetorical Fight for African American Citizenship Rights: The Rhetorical/Legal Dynamics of "With All Deliberate Speed"

Paulson, Sally F.

Paperback

Series: Rhetoric, Race, and Religion

General ReferenceGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 149856528X
ISBN13: 9781498565288
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: Aug 11 2020
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.72
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Focusing on the NAACP's twentieth-century attempt to overturn the separate but equal doctrine through school desegregation cases, Desegregation and the Rhetorical Fight for African American Citizenship Rights analyzes the rhetorical/legal dynamics inherent in the struggle to determine African American citizenship rights. This book begins by identifying the fundamental dialectical tension existing within all American citizenship rights between the Declaration of Independence's guarantee of ideal equality to all citizens as opposed to the Constitution's privileging of local, practical decision-making through Article IV Sect. 2, the privileges and immunities clause. It contends that as a consequence of that dynamic, American citizenship rights are rhetorical concepts produced through argument grounded in all the available means of persuasion, including logical, emotional, and ethical appeals. Ultimately, this book demonstrates that the school desegregation issue came down to a question of credibility/ethics. Recommended for scholars interested in communication, law, history, political science, and cultural studies.

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