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Title:Race, Rhetoric & Identity : The Architecton of Soul
Author:Molefi Kete Asante
ISBN:1591023181 : 9781591023180
Format:Hardback
Size:145x210mm
Pages:250
Weight: .383 Kg.
Published:Prometheus Books - December 2005
List Price: 20.99 Pounds Sterling
Availability:In Print
Subjects:Black studies: USA


Asante examines a wide range of cultural phenomena that continue to reflect underlying racial problems, including media distortions, the identity crisis among African Americans, the rhetoric of education, the exploitations of bureaucracies, 'the tyranny of reason without passion', African voices expressed through European literary forms, and arguments about justice and reparations.

DuBois and 'The Souls of Black Folk'; De-racing the Media; Trouble at the Gate: Identity Crisis; The Rhetoric of Education; The Preponderance of Bureaucracy; The Continuing Prevalence of Racism; A New Architecture of Images; Communications, Culture and Civilisation; Rhetoric and Myth; Press Politics in a Racist Society; Habermas and the Tyranny of Reason without Passion; Literature and Criticism; Afrocentricity, Sexism and Maat; Narrativity and the Rhetoric of Identity; Reparations, Reasons and Rhetoric.