Please choose any ONE of the rhetors below. Watch the videos provided and address the questions outlined for you!
Come to class ready to talk.
Come to class ready to talk.
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OPTION #1: Queen Afua-- “Healing Your Body Temple”
African/Nubian spirituality, wellness, and health are connected for Queen Afua. Provide a rhetorical analysis. Why is this relevant to the study of black women’s rhetoric? What is the role of her Institute--- how might it also be rhetoric? |
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OPTION #2: “I am Prathia Daughters Campaign” (please read more info under video at youtube)
What do you think about this campaign? Why is this relevant to the study of black women’s rhetoric? (Please read more here) |
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OPTION #3: Pastor Dr. Gina Stewart
What is the message she conveys to her congregation? Give a rhetorical analysis of HOW she conveys this message. What do you think? Why is this relevant to the study of black women’s rhetoric? |
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OPTION #4: Bishop Vashtie McKenzie
What is the message she conveys to her congregation? Give a rhetorical analysis of HOW she conveys this message. What do you think? Why is this relevant to the study of black women’s rhetoric? |
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OPTION #5: Gospel Originator, Dorothy Love Coates
Dorothy Love Coates is an important, early Gospel singer who also used preaching and narration to bring attention to social injustice. She was active in the Civil Rights Movement and encouraged church audiences to be so also. |
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Many secular artists imitated her style and lyricism: from Little Richard to Wilson Pickett to the Supremes’s hit, “You Can’t Hurry Love.” (for more, go to: http://www.allmusic.com/artist/dorothy-love-coates-p2242/biography ) What is the message she conveys to her audience?
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OPTION #6: This Final Playlist IS FOR THE STRONG… Listen to ALL of these….Then address: What are EACH of these women bringing to and doing with this song? Why are they still singing it? Why is this song and these women’s renditions relevant to the study of black women’s rhetoric?
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