Black Identity Tom Flynn his case studies illustrate how

his case studies illustrate how the period's debates about race

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Black Identity Tom Flynn his case studies illustrate howExploring the role of rhetoric in African American identity and political discourse Dexter B. Gordon's Black Identity: Rhetoric, Ideology, and Nineteenth Century Black Nationalism explores the problem of racial alienation and the importance of rhetoric in the formation of black identity in the United States. Faced with alienation and disenfranchisement as a part of their daily experience, African Americans developed collective practices of empowerment