Presents research on how variations in African Americans’ racial self-concept affects meaning-making and internalized oppression.

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.

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.

Offers a conceptual foundation for nonviolent rhetoric.

Informative and entertaining introduction to the study of popular culture.

Details how presidents utilize mass media to justify foreign policy objectives in the aftermath of 9/11.

Essays addressing relatively unknown or unexamined speeches delivered by famous or influential environmental figures.

Updated version of an engaging overview of the television situation comedy.

Argues that expectations for mothering include a new core principle of "body work. "

Examines the rhetoric in and around the New York State Asylum for Idiots in Syracuse, New York from 1854 to 1884.

Some of the world’s foremost thought leaders consider the role of leadership, love, and power in the midst of political and social upheaval.

Updated with a timely literature review and new case studies from sports, international politics, and third party image repair.

Rethinks the concepts of nation, imperialism, and globalization by examining the everyday writing of the newspaper chronicle and blog in Spain and Latin America.

A groundbreaking study of ten difficult years in the life of America's most important newspaper.

Develops third-space theory by engaging with zines produced by feminists and queers of color.

Reveals how African Americans used cable television as a means of empowerment.

Unpacks the myriad ways rhetorical and communication theories and feminist intersectional approaches impact one another.

Looks at the critical role of community members and other interested parties in environmental policy decision making.

New directions in thinking about mothering.

Explores the relationship between social movements and rhetorical theory and practice.

Essential copyright resource for teachers and writers, particularly those involved in electronic or new media.

Contributors engage the communication issues associated with violence in families, including interspousal violence and violent parents and children.

Explores John Quincy Adams’s oratorical work in support of government-funded science.

Examines the role of image and affect in teaching with new digital technologies and multimedia composition.

Examines the relationship of civic discourse to built environments through a case study of the Cabrini Green urban revitalization project in Chicago.