Rhetoric of Black Revolution

by Molefi Kete Asante [Arthur L. Smith]| Allyn & Bacon (1969)

Summary

Discusses the origins, context, strategies, topics, and audience of American black rhetoric so that we might better understand this important contemporary phenomenon. Divided into six chapters: Toward a Revolutionary Rhetoric; Strategies of the Revolutionists; Topics of Revolutionary Rhetoric; Nature of the Black Audience; Origins of Revolutionary Themes; Samples of Revolutionary Rhetoric.

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  • Asante is “one of America’s top 100 leading thinkers.

    —Utne Reader

  • Asante, a sixth-generation American descended from enslaved Africans, has been a guiding light in African American studies.

    —Booklist

  • Molefi Kete Asante is a seminal thinker.

    —Cornel West, Princeton University