We Would Not Bleach Our Negro Souls: The Old White Rhetoric of Privileged Propriety vs. the New Black Consciousness
Dr. Kermit Campbell, Rhetorician and Chair of the Department of Writing and Rhetoric will present 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 19, Love Auditorium, Olin Hall, Colgate University.
Much maligned by conservatives and mostly misconstrued by liberals, the Black Lives Matter movement has inserted itself into the public discourse surrounding the police killing of unarmed black men. But beyond the marches, counter-protests and sound bites, the signifier Black Lives Matter and the movement it inspired presents a bold declaration of the rise of a new black consciousness that is unapologetic about the value of blackness vis-a-vis whiteness.
Campbell is Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Chair of the Department of Writing & Rhetoric at Colgate University. He is the author of a book of essays entitled Gettin’ Our Groove On: Rhetoric, Language, and Literacy for the Hip Hop Generation and a contributing editor of The Routledge Reader of African American Rhetoric (forthcoming). He has written articles for The African Journal of Rhetoric and serves on the governing board of The African Association for Rhetoric based in Cape Town, South Africa.
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