BARACK OBAMA’S ADDRESS TO THE 2004 DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION: TRAUMA, COMPROMISE, CONSILIENCE, AND THE (IM)POSSIBILITY OF RACIAL RECONCILIATION

dc.contributor.authorFrank, David A.
dc.contributor.authorMcPhail, Mark Lawrence
dc.date.accessioned2011-01-13T22:38:32Z
dc.date.available2011-01-13T22:38:32Z
dc.date.issued2005
dc.description24 p.en_US
dc.description.abstractThe two authors of this article offer alternative readings of Barack Obama’s July 27, 2004, address to the 2004 Democratic National Convention (DNC) as an experiment in interracial collaborative rhetorical criticism, one in which they “write together separately.” David A. Frank judges Obama’s speech a prophetic effort advancing the cause of racial healing. Mark Lawrence McPhail finds Obama’s speech, particularly when it is compared to Reverend Al Sharpton’s DNC speech of July 28, 2004, an old vision of racelessness. Despite their different readings of Obama’s address, both authors conclude that rhetorical scholars have an important role to play in cultivating a climate of racial reconciliation.en_US
dc.identifier.citationRhetoric & Public Affairs, Vol. 8, No. 4, 2005, pp. 571-594en_US
dc.identifier.issn1094-8392
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/10936
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherMichigan State University Pressen_US
dc.subjectObama, Barack
dc.subjectDemocratic National Convention (2004 : Boston, Mass.)
dc.subjectRace relations -- United States -- History -- 21st century
dc.subjectRhetoric
dc.titleBARACK OBAMA’S ADDRESS TO THE 2004 DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION: TRAUMA, COMPROMISE, CONSILIENCE, AND THE (IM)POSSIBILITY OF RACIAL RECONCILIATIONen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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