Brown v. Board of Education at fifty : a rhetorical perspective
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Brown v. Board of Education at fifty : a rhetorical perspective
Lexington Books, c2004
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Brown versus Board of Education at fifty
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Bibliography: p. 171-186
Includes index
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The story of Brown v. Board of Education is a half-century old now and has been retold many times by historians, legal scholars, sociologists, and others. This collection of persuasive scholarly essays examines, for the first time, the role rhetorical theory played in the development of educational segregation. Contributors consider the NAACPOs development of a series of graduate school cases to challenge Plessy, analyze the Brown decision itself, assess the state response to Brown, and critique the two Supreme Court decisions implementing the Brown decision. By illustrating how rhetorical strategies created, sustained, challenged, and, ultimately, reversed educational segregation in the United States, this work demonstrates the real value of the rhetorical perspective and provides encouragement to those who wish to help further develop this emerging field of judicial rhetoric.
Table of Contents
1 Introduction 2 Revisiting the Case ofPlessy v. Ferguson 3 Dissent as Prophecy: Justice John Marshall Harlan's Dissent inPlessy v. Ferguson as the Religious Rhetoric of Law 4 Setting the Stage forBrown v. Board of Education: The NAACP's Litigation Campaign Against the "Separate But Equal" Doctrine 5 From Natural to Cultural Inferiorirty: The Symbolic Reconstruction of White Supremacy in Brown v. Board of Education 6 The Rhetorica of Virginia's Massive Resistance Movement 7 The Supreme Court's Rhetoric of Legitimization
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