Booker T. Washington's rhetoric: commanding performance
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Booker T. Washington's autobiography 'Up from Slavery' and especially his 'Atlanta Exposition Address' of 1895 illustrate his use of the rhetoric of humility for self-promotion. Washington presents himself as the mediator between the races, appearing as an embodiment of racial amalgamation while advocating separate development. He flatters his Southern white audience through use of nostalgia while appealing to Northerners with pragmatic materialism. Washington seemingly advocates Negro submission to white superiority but actually manipulates the audience for his own ends.
Publication Name: Prospects
Subject: Ethnic, cultural, racial issues/studies
ISSN: 0361-2333
Year: 1992
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Hawthorne's Mister Hooper: the veil of ham?
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Nathaniel Hawthrone's 'The Minister's Black Veil' centers around Reverend Hooper, who is an image of the Abolitionist crusader of the 1830s William Lloyd Garrison. The traditional Hawthorne scholars held that Hawthorne detached himself from the greatest social and political issue of American history. However, the story of Reverend Hooper with a black veil covering his face proves that Hawthorne portrayed him on Garrison. Hawthorne's opaque style, which is symbolic and eludes literal comprehension, accounts for the apparent exclusion of slavery in his works.
Publication Name: Prospects
Subject: Ethnic, cultural, racial issues/studies
ISSN: 0361-2333
Year: 1996
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"We can be as separate as" the pages of the book: Booker T. Washington and the work of autobiography
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Booker T. Washington's autobiographies demonstrate his dual nature as a supporter of accommodation and industrial education for black people and as a manipulator of white altruism to create black civic and political power. His public persona was devoted to maintaining the Tuskegee Institute while he privately solicited black support and enrollment.
Publication Name: Prospects
Subject: Ethnic, cultural, racial issues/studies
ISSN: 0361-2333
Year: 2001
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