Passionate intensity: Louis farrakhan and the fallacies of racial reasoning

Quarterly Journal of Speech

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 416-429

  McPhail, Mark Lawrence ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Complicity; Louis Farrakhan; Minority epistemology; Nation of Islam; Protest rhetoric; Racial reasoning; Symbolic realignment

Indexed keywords

EID: 0005519406     PISSN: 00335630     EISSN: 14795779     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00335639809384230     Document Type: Article

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