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050 00 $aE908.3$b.T47 2015
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100 1 $aTerrill, Robert,$eauthor.
245 10 $aDouble-consciousness and the rhetoric of Barack Obama :$bthe price and promise of citizenship /$cRobert E. Terrill.
264 1 $aColumbia, South Carolina :$bThe University of South Carolina Press,$c[2015]
300 $axv, 205 pages ;$c24 cm.
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337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aStudies in rhetoric/communication
520 $a"Robert E. Terrill argues that, in order to invent a robust manner of addressing one another as citizens, Americans must learn to draw on the delicate indignities of racial exclusion that have stained citizenship since its inception. In Double-Consciousness and the Rhetoric of Barack Obama, Terrill demonstrates how President Barack Obama's public address models such a discourse. Terrill contends that Obama's most effective oratory invites his audiences to experience a form of "double-consciousness," which was famously described by W. E. B. Du Bois as a feeling of "two-ness" resulting from the African American experience of "always looking at one's self through the eyes of others." It is described as an effect of cruel alienation that can also bring a gift of "second-sight" in the form of perspectives on practices of citizenship not available to those in positions of privilege. When addressing fellow citizens, Obama is asking each to share in the "peculiar sensation" that Du Bois described. The racial history of U.S. citizenship is a resource for inventing contemporary ways of speaking about race. Joining with other work that suggests that double-consciousness may be a vital democratic attitude, Terrill extends those insights to consider it as a mode of address. Through close analyses of selected speeches from Obama's 2008 campaign and first presidential term, this book argues that Obama does not present double-consciousness merely as a point of view but rather as an idiom with which we might speak to one another. Of course, as Du Bois's work reminds us, double-consciousness results from imposition and encumbrance, so that Obama's oratory presents a mode of address that emphasizes the burdens of citizenship together with the benefits, the price as well as the promise"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
600 10 $aObama, Barack$xOratory.
650 0 $aRhetoric$xPolitical aspects$zUnited States.
651 0 $aUnited States$xRace relations.
650 7 $aLANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Civil Rights.$2bisacsh
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650 7 $aRace relations.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01086509
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830 0 $aStudies in rhetoric/communication.
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