African & African American Studies: Black Rhetorical Tradition
This guide lists information sources provided by LSU Libraries on topics within the study of the African diaspora.
Black Rhetorical Tradition
This page lists selected information sources on the Black Rhetorical Tradition.
Books provide information on a narrower subject area, and may only cover a specific aspect of a subject area. Some books may also provide broad surveys of a topic.
Reference sources provide summaries of facts, definition of terms, summaries of histories, short biographies, etc., on large subject areas. They are the best place to start research, particularly for users unfamiliar with a a field of study or subject area. Most of the reference sources at LSU Libraries are accessible online, but there are many reference sources available in print in the Libraries' stacks.
The videos listed are documentaries.
Books
Black Identity : rhetoric, ideology, and nineteenth-century Black nationalism by ISBN: 0809324857Publication Date: 2003-02-26
Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings by ISBN: 9781306063319Publication Date: 2000-01-01
Freedom's Prophet : Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black Founding Fathers by ISBN: 9780814759011Publication Date: 2008-03-01
Herstories : leading with the lessons of the lives of Black women activists by ISBN: 9781433111921Publication Date: 2011-06-10
Say It Loud : great speeches on civil rights and African American identity by ISBN: 9781595581136Publication Date: 2010-08-31
Say It Plain : a century of great African American speeches by ISBN: 1565849248Publication Date: 2005-02-01
A Voice That Could Stir an Army : Fannie Lou Hamer and the Rhetoric of the Black Freedom Movement by ISBN: 9781626740334Publication Date: 2014-04-30
The Will of a People : A Critical Anthology of Great African American Speeches by ISBN: 9780809390731Publication Date: 2012-02-01
Writing Through Jane Crow : Race and Gender Politics in African American Literature by ISBN: 9780813935942Publication Date: 2014-05-13
