Centering Ourselves: African American Feminist and Womanist Studies of Discourse

by Marsha Houston

In this book the editors suggest an approach to the study of black women as communicators that centers the knowledge and wisdom conveyed through the 19th and 20th centuries both in the public rhetoric of notable black women and in ordinary women's everyday conversations. The goal is to present what is not found in other communication books and Joomals - an angle of vision on black women's rhetoric and everyday talk that both takes account of the material...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1572733500
• ISBN13: 9781572733503
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: Hampton Press (NJ)
• Length: 252 Pages