Language, Identity, and Citizenship [2005]

As we continue to wrestle theoretically and pragmatically with questions of racism and ethnic diversity as related to rhetoric and citizenship, a trio of intriguing and valiant books has appeared in the last couple of years to aid us in our quest for conceptual clarity. Of these, Dexter B. Gordon's Black Identity: Rhetoric, Ideology, and Nineteenth-Century Black Nationalism (2003) contains the most extensive historical grounding and is the text with which I begin.