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Publication Date: 2004-Dec
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Plymouth Rock Landed on Us: Malcolm X's Whiteness Theory as a Basis for Alternative Literacy
Miller, Keith D.
College Composition and Communication, v56 n2 p199-222 Dec 2004
Using Burkean theory, I claim that Malcolm X brilliantly exposed the rhetoric and epistemology of whiteness as he rejected the African American jeremiad--a dominant form of African American oratory for more than 150 years. Whiteness theory served as the basis for Malcolm X's alternative literacy, which raises important questions that literacy theorists have yet to consider.
Descriptors: Epistemology, Whites, African Americans, Nontraditional Education, Intellectual History, Rhetorical Theory, Literacy, Black Dialects
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