American Public Address Enacting Red Power

An analysis paper, everything is attached below.

Below are the public address scholarship articles that you can choose from for your essays. You will provide a 2-3 page analysis of one of of these articles for each designated due date. We will then discuss these essays in class on the days your analyses are due.

March 5th

• Randall A. Lake, “Enacting Red Power: The Consummatory Function in Native American Protest Rhetoric.” Quarterly Journal of Speech, 69 (1983), 127-142.
• Stephen Browne, “‘Like Gory Spectres’: Representing Evil in Theodore Weld’s American Slavery As It Is.” Quarterly Journal of Speech, 80 (1994), 277-292.
• Susan Zaeske, “Signatures of Citizenship: The Rhetoric of Women’s Antislavery Petitions.” Quarterly Journal of Speech, 88 (2002), 147-168.
• Roseann M. Mandziuk, “Commemorating Sojourner Truth: Negotiating the Spaces of Public Memory.” Western Journal of Communication, 67 (2003), 271-291.
• Mari Boor Tonn, “Militant Motherhood: Labor’s Mary Harris ‘Mother’ Jones.” Quarterly Journal of Speech, 82 (1996), 1-21.