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CJN-485-A  Rhetoric of Protest & Reform 

Fall 2011

TTH 11:30 AM - 12:45 PM

Fenton 615

09/08/2011-12/08/2011

 

Dr. Gloria M. Boone

Ridgeway 405
Communication and Journalism
Suffolk University
Boston, MA 02108

Office Hours: T TH 10:30-11:30,
and by appt.

Phone: 617-573-8501
Fax: 617-742-6982
gboone@suffolk.edu
 

Required Text:

Boone, G. (2007) American Social Movements for Freedom: Abolition, Suffrage, Civil Rights and Women's Rights. (online book)

Other readings may be assigned from the Internet, journals, or newspapers.  

This is a multimedia course. A variety of clips from documentaries, films and television will be shown.

Protest and Reform Class

 Freedom Book Index

 Related Links

Course Objectives:

  1. To provide an understanding of the important speeches, essays and messages of African-Americans.
  2. To provide an understanding of the important speeches, essays and messages of women in America.
  3. To understand the persuasive strategies used in social movements such as abolition, civil rights, suffrage and women's rights.
  4. To compare and contrast different leaders, audiences and rhetorical strategies used in social movements.
  5. To enable the critical examination of issues like slavery, discrimination, inequality, race, gender, and power in American society.
  6. To analyze how freedom and civil rights have evolved and expanded in America.

 
Day Topic or Activity
9/8 Introduction to the course.
Slavery in the Americas, Slavery today
9/13 Introduction to Social Movements, Rhetorical Analysis
9/15 Olaudah Equiano, Middle Passage
9/20 Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Banneker,  Bitzer- Rhetorical Situation
9/22 Women's lives - Mary Wollstonecraft, Phillis Wheatley

Early America - Colonial America
Arguments over origins, ownership, history, religion, nature, gender, and civilization

 Kenneth Burke
9/27 Slavery in Colonial America -  Slave Revolts-New York in 1741, David Walker

Walker Report

Life in Colonial and Antebellum America: Landowners, Women, Servants, Free men, and Slaves.
9/29 Slave revolts-Nat Turner
Free Black Communities-Maria Stewart, Richard Allen

Abolitionists: Sarah and Angelina Grimke, Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman

Descendents of Africa, Sons of ′76: Exploring Early African-American Rhetoric. By: Bacon, Jacqueline; McClish, Glen. RSQ: Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Winter 2006, Vol. 36 Issue 1, p1-29   http://0-search.ebscohost.com.library.law.suffolk.edu:80/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ufh&AN=23925085&site=ehost-live

 
10/4 Seneca Falls - Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott
Early attempts at Suffrage- Susan B. Anthony
10/6 Dred Scott Case, John Brown, Civil War-Northern views, Civil War -Southern views, Abraham Lincoln

Confederate ideas , State's Rights and John C. Calhoun, Role of Literature

Civil War Amendments (13th, 14th, 15th), Reconstruction, Black Codes, Political Action, KKK, the Black Press, Plessy v. Ferguson

10/11 AMSA, Lucy Stone, Henry Blackwell, Victoria Woodhall, court cases, Wyoming and the West

Suffrage Renaissance, Carrie Catt, Anna Howard Shaw, Jane Addams, Alice Paul, Women's Peace Movement, Picketing the White House, 19th Amendment

Mixing of issues-Frances Willard (WTCU), Race, Class, Gender, Margaret Sanger

Discursive Identity Formation of Suffrage Women: Reframing the “Cult of True Womanhood” Through Song. By: Hurner, Sheryl. Western Journal of Communication, Jul2006, Vol. 70 Issue 3, p234-260 Persistent link to this record: http://0-search.ebscohost.com.library.law.suffolk.edu:80/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ufh&AN=23220256&site=ehost-live  database: Communication & Mass Media Complete
10/13

Suffrage video
10/18 review
10/20 Midterm

10/25

10/26

 Ida B.Wells, Mary Church Terrell, Jim Crow

Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois

10/27 NAACP, Marcus Garvey, Alain Locke, Claude McKay, Langston Hughes, Jean Toomer, Countee Cullen, Zora Neale Hurston
11/1 The 1940's- 1950's-Joe Lewis, Truman Executive Order (1948)

Brown v. Board of Education, Eleanor Roosevelt, Rosie the Riveter, Motherhood in the 1950's, Betty Freidan, Simone de Beauvoir
11/3-11/10 Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Jr.,  James Baldwin, Fannie Lou Hammer, Civil Rights Act of 1964
 

DOING TIME: KING'S "LETTER FROM BIRMINGHAM JAIL". By: Berry, Edward. Rhetoric & Public Affairs, Spring2005, Vol. 8 Issue 1, p109-131 http://0-search.ebscohost.com.library.law.suffolk.edu:80/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ufh&AN=17749616&site=ehost-live

SCOFFING AT THE ENEMY: The Burlesque Frame in the Rhetoric of Ralph David Abernathy. By: Selby, Gary Steven. Southern Communication Journal, Winter2005, Vol. 70 Issue 2, p134-145  http://0-search.ebscohost.com.library.law.suffolk.edu:80/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ufh&AN=18712084&site=ehost-live
11/15 Gloria Steinem, Equal Rights Amendment 1972, Title IX 1972, Roe v. Wade 1973, Phyllis Schlafly

THE CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN ABORTION CONTROVERSY: STAGES IN THE ARGUMENT. By: Railsback, Celeste Condit. Quarterly Journal of Speech, Nov84, Vol. 70 Issue 4, p410, 15p  http://0-search.ebscohost.com.library.law.suffolk.edu:80/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ufh&AN=9936973&site=ehost-live
11/17 Malcolm X video
11/22 Malcolm X, Ballot or Bullet, Black Panther Party
 

The Evolution of a Revolution: Stokely Carmichael and the Rhetoric of Black Power. By: Stewart, Charles J.. Quarterly Journal of Speech, Nov97, Vol. 83 Issue 4, p429, 18p http://0-search.ebscohost.com.library.law.suffolk.edu:80/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ufh&AN=9711214808&site=ehost-live

11/24 Thanksgiving
11/30 Jesse Jackson, Clarence Thomas, Welfare, Class, Riots, Vietnam, Women in the Military

12/1

12/6

Writers, Poets, and Music-Civil Rights Songs, Rap, Alice Walker, Maya Angelou, Rape, Domestic Violence, Feminists, Feminist Backlash, Black Identity, Recent Race and Gender Issues.

REPRESENTING THE THIRD WAVE: MAINSTREAM PRINT MEDIA FRAMING OF A NEW FEMINIST MOVEMENT. By: Bronstein, Carolyn. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Winter2005, Vol. 82 Issue 4, p783-803 http://0-search.ebscohost.com.library.law.suffolk.edu:80/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ufh&AN=20486632&site=ehost-live

Reconceptualizing Rhetorical Activism in Contemporary Feminist Contexts. By: Sowards, Stacey K.; Renegar, Valerie. Howard Journal of Communications, Jan-Mar2006, Vol. 17 Issue 1, p57-74. http://0-search.ebscohost.com.library.law.suffolk.edu:80/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ufh&AN=19701793&site=ehost-live Database: Communication & Mass Media Complete

12/8 Final

Requirements:

Midterm (100 points)

Final (100 points)

3-4 page typed rhetorical analysis/oral report of a reformer from 9/27 to 10/11. Cite sources. (100 points)

3-4 page rhetorical analysis/oral report of a reformer from 10/18 to 12/6. Cite sources. (100 points)

Exercises/ Class Participation/ Attendance (100 points)

TOTAL (500 points)

 

General Notes:
  1. ALL papers must be typed. Both content and style will be graded.
  2. Sources must be cited using (APA) format.
  3. Use the APA guidelines in formatting any paper.
  4. Assignments must be handed in ON TIME. A late penalty will be applied.
  5. More than two absenses will hurt your grade.
  6. Academic dishonesty is morally repugnant.
  7. As noted in the Suffolk University's Student Handbook, plagiarism or
    cheating will result in failing the course and possible dismissal from school.

 

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