Sally F. Paulson

Desegregation and the Rhetorical Fight for African American Citizenship Rights (eBook, PDF)

The Rhetorical/Legal Dynamics of "With All Deliberate Speed"

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Focusing on the NAACP's twentieth-century attempt to overturn the "separate but equal" doctrine through school desegregation cases, Desegregation and the Rhetorical Fight for African American Citizenship Rights analyzes the rhetorical/legal dynamics inherent in the struggle to determine African American citizenship rights. This book begins by identifying the fundamental dialectical tension existing within all American citizenship rights between the Declaration of Independence's guarantee of "ideal equality" to all citizens as opposed to the Constitution's privileging of local, "practical" decision-making through Article IV Sect. 2, the "privileges and immunities" clause. It contends that as a consequence of that dynamic, American citizenship rights are rhetorical concepts produced through argument grounded in "all the available means of persuasion," including logical, emotional, and ethical appeals. Ultimately, this book demonstrates that the school desegregation issue came down to a question of credibility/ethics. Recommended for scholars interested in communication, law, history, political science, and cultural studies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216222194
• Artikelnr.: 74396780

Autorenporträt

Sally F. Paulson is independent scholar and licensed attorney in Memphis, Tennessee.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter I. The Situation Chapter II. The Road to "Separate but Equal"
Chapter III. The Graduate School "Equality" Cases of the 1930's Chapter IV.
McLaurin v. Oklahoma: "Separate Cannot Be Equal" Chapter V. Public School
Desegregation Chapter VI. Brown II: "With All Deliberate Speed" Chapter
VII. "White Flight" Bibliography Index About the Author