Project MUSE®: Rhetoric & Public Affairs - Latest Articles
https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/171
Project MUSE®: Latest articles in Rhetoric & Public Affairs.daily12026-05-13T00:00:00-05:00text/htmlen-USVol. 1 (1998) through current issueLatest Articles: Rhetoric & Public AffairsTWOProject MUSE®Rhetoric & Public Affairs1534-52381094-8392Latest articles in Rhetoric & Public Affairs. Feed provided by Project MUSE®The Measured Memory of Abraham Lincoln: Ring Composition and Rhetorical Complexity in Frederick Douglass's Freedmen's Monument Address
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/968288
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In the fall of 1865, Frederick Douglass engaged in a vigorous debate about how to memorialize the recently assassinated president, Abraham Lincoln. A group of well-known Black leaders, including Henry Highland Garnet and William J. Wilson, had announced in the pages of the Anglo-African newspaper the founding of the Colored People's Educational Monument Association. The purpose of the group was to create both a monument and an educational institution to honor Lincoln. Unbeknownst to Douglass, he was appointed as vice president of the group. He responded with skepticism about the project, or as Wilson characterized it, with Douglass's "usual sarcastic style."1 Douglass questioned the motivations of the group. He
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-13T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/171/image/coversmallThe Measured Memory of Abraham Lincoln: Ring Composition and Rhetorical Complexity in Frederick Douglass's Freedmen's Monument Address2025-08-26text/htmlen-USThe Measured Memory of Abraham Lincoln: Ring Composition and Rhetorical Complexity in Frederick Douglass's Freedmen's Monument Address2025-08-262025TWOProject MUSE®1602512026-05-13T00:00:00-05:002025-08-26God's Eye: Decorum and Magnitude in the Apollo 8 Genesis Reading
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/968289
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Many remember the 1968 Apollo 8 mission to the moon for the iconic "Earthrise" photo it produced—the first full color image of our blue marble captured by humans. Although overshadowed by Apollo 11's lunar landing the following summer, Apollo 8 was a mission of impressive firsts: the first trip out of Earth's orbit, the first circumnavigation of another planetary body, the first time that humans laid eyes on the dark side of the moon. The mission also made headlines for another, more rhetorical type of first. Armed with a camera, the crew made a series of televised broadcasts on their journey, including a message on Christmas Eve to an audience of nearly a billion people—the largest audience that any speaker had
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-13T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/171/image/coversmallGod's Eye: Decorum and Magnitude in the Apollo 8 Genesis Reading2025-08-26text/htmlen-USGod's Eye: Decorum and Magnitude in the Apollo 8 Genesis Reading2025-08-262025TWOProject MUSE®1473892026-05-13T00:00:00-05:002025-08-26Children Redefining Childhood in the Bolivian Código Niña, Niño y Adolescente
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/968290
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Bolivia captured international headlines (and a bit of notoriety) in 2014 when it legalized child labor for ten-year-olds.1 Originally, the Bolivian legislature planned to raise the minimum age for child labor from fourteen to sixteen to align with the International Labour Organization's recommendations,2 but as the Parliament deliberated, they encountered seemingly unlikely opposition—child workers themselves. Child workers from across the country organized and led what the New York Times labeled the "first ever demonstration by child laborers in Bolivia."3 As their protest built in the streets, police pepper-sprayed and tear-gassed the children, and several were injured.4 A few of the young workers found
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-13T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/171/image/coversmallChildren Redefining Childhood in the Bolivian Código Niña, Niño y Adolescente2025-08-26text/htmlen-USChildren Redefining Childhood in the Bolivian Código Niña, Niño y Adolescente2025-08-262025TWOProject MUSE®1967342026-05-13T00:00:00-05:002025-08-26Forging Peace by Threatening Violence: Nonviolence through Rhetorical Violence in Eugene Debs's "Arouse, Ye Slaves!"
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/968291
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Trudging through eight inches of snow after sunset on December 30, 1905, former Idaho Governor Frank Steunenberg opened the gate to his house in Caldwell, Idaho, triggering an explosion that would shortly end his life as his family rushed to help him. One of the best-known Idahoans in the state, Steunenberg created a litany of enemies within labor unions as governor during unusually violent union strikes and protests in Northern Idaho in 1899. To quell those uprisings, Steunenberg called in federal troops, ordered a period of martial law, and jailed about 700 miners in "makeshift concentration camps."1 At that time his representative said, "We have taken the monster by the throat and we are going to choke the life
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-13T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/171/image/coversmallForging Peace by Threatening Violence: Nonviolence through Rhetorical Violence in Eugene Debs's "Arouse, Ye Slaves!"2025-08-26text/htmlen-USForging Peace by Threatening Violence: Nonviolence through Rhetorical Violence in Eugene Debs's "Arouse, Ye Slaves!"2025-08-262025TWOProject MUSE®1569262026-05-13T00:00:00-05:002025-08-26The Unlikely World of the Montgomery Bus Boycott: Solidarity across Alabama, the United Kingdom and South Africa by Cole S. Manley (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/968292
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In The Unlikely World of the Montgomery Bus Boycott: Solidarity across Alabama, the United Kingdom and South Africa, author Cole Manley contributes to a growing body of scholarship on the Montgomery bus boycott. The author acknowledges that there continues to be numerous studies on how the boycott influenced the course of the civil rights movement as well as the implications of the boycott on domestic and civil politics (15). However, insufficient attention has been paid to the boycott's international impact. Manley emphasizes that his book does not reiterate the well-established timeline of the boycott or situate it within context of the federal government; rather, it "explores the critical organizing by the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-13T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/171/image/coversmallThe Unlikely World of the Montgomery Bus Boycott: Solidarity across Alabama, the United Kingdom and South Africa by Cole S. Manley (review)2025-08-26text/htmlen-USThe Unlikely World of the Montgomery Bus Boycott: Solidarity across Alabama, the United Kingdom and South Africa by Cole S. Manley (review)2025-08-262025TWOProject MUSE®117802026-05-13T00:00:00-05:002025-08-26Sensitive Rhetorics: Academic Freedom and Campus Activism by Kendall Gerdes (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/968293
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According to professional correspondence from Harvard, the spring 2024 anti-war and Palestine solidarity protests on campus were "disruptive."1 UCLA similarly claimed that their students' encampment was "a focal point for serious violence."2 Despite these assertions, independent non-profit Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project analyzed 533 US campus demonstrations from that spring and found that 97 percent were uneventful.3 Journalist Steven W. Thrasher spent time at four camps and describes these as "beautiful" encounters.4 CNN examined "the role professors have played in the demonstrations," a facet of the protests that "received comparatively little attention."5 At my own institution's protest—Virginia
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-13T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/171/image/coversmallSensitive Rhetorics: Academic Freedom and Campus Activism by Kendall Gerdes (review)2025-08-26text/htmlen-USSensitive Rhetorics: Academic Freedom and Campus Activism by Kendall Gerdes (review)2025-08-262025TWOProject MUSE®235752026-05-13T00:00:00-05:002025-08-26The Center Cannot Hold: Decolonial Possibility in the Collapse of a Tanzanian NGO by Jenna N. Hanchey (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/968294
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In The Center Cannot Hold: Decolonial Possibility in the Collapse of a Tanzanian NGO, Jenna N. Hanchey delves into the intricate and often contradictory world of international nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), focusing on their operations in Tanzania. Blending decolonial and psychoanalytic theory, Hanchey explores the political and social forces that govern the operations of NGOs in Africa. Hanchey's central theoretical contributions are, first, the concept of "liquid agency," which refers to the fluid ability of individuals to act in varying contexts (17). Such an ability project serves as an interconnection between personal agency, external influences, and environmental circumstances that could cause human
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-13T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/171/image/coversmallThe Center Cannot Hold: Decolonial Possibility in the Collapse of a Tanzanian NGO by Jenna N. Hanchey (review)2025-08-26text/htmlen-USThe Center Cannot Hold: Decolonial Possibility in the Collapse of a Tanzanian NGO by Jenna N. Hanchey (review)2025-08-262025TWOProject MUSE®145522026-05-13T00:00:00-05:002025-08-26Political Mourning: Identity and Responsibility in the Wake of Tragedy by Heather N. Pool (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/968295
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In Political Mourning: Identity and Responsibility in the Wake of Tragedy, political theorist Heather Pool offers a theory of "political mourning" in which publics respond to a highly visible death (or deaths) in ways that challenge the existing meaning of citizenship and the nation's responsibilities towards disenfranchised groups. In the introduction, Pool states, "I define political mourning as an affective communal response to a loss that threatens (or is perceived to threaten) the historical narrative, present expression, or future possibility of the political community and/or the ideals that sustain that political community" (17). While political mourning could be associated with any identity group in the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-13T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/171/image/coversmallPolitical Mourning: Identity and Responsibility in the Wake of Tragedy by Heather N. Pool (review)2025-08-26text/htmlen-USPolitical Mourning: Identity and Responsibility in the Wake of Tragedy by Heather N. Pool (review)2025-08-262025TWOProject MUSE®140952026-05-13T00:00:00-05:002025-08-26