About the Author

Elaine B. Richardson, an associate professor of English and applied linguistics at Penn State University, is the author of African American Literacies and Hiphop Literacies. Ronald L. Jackson II, an associate professor of communication arts and sciences at Penn State University, is the author of Scripting the Black Masculine Body: Identity, Discourse, and Racial Politics in Popular Media.

Reviews

This is an important project, given the role... of African American rhetorics in the American experiment. - Bradford T. Stull, author of Amid the Fall, Dreaming of Eden: Du Bois, King, Malcolm X, and Emancipatory Composition