The Argument from Definition Revisited: Race and Definition in the Progressive Era

Argumentation and Advocacy

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 141-158

  McGee, Brian R ^a  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037747369     PISSN: 10511431     EISSN: 25768476     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00028533.1999.11951628     Document Type: Article

References (64)

1. Bahm, K., (1991). The pragmatics of intrinsic justification: A response to Hill and Leeman. Argumentation and Advocacy, 27, 171–178.
2. Bahm, K. T., (1993). The impractical characterization of intrinsic justification: A rebuttal. Argumentation and Advocacy, 30, 43–49.
3. Baker, R. S., (1964). Following the color line: American Negro citizenship in the progressive era. New York: Harper Torchbooks. (Original work published 1908)
4. Bernstein, R.J., (1983). Beyond objectivism and relativism: Science, hermeneutics, and praxis. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
5. Booth, W. C., (1961). The rhetoric of fiction. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
6. Burke, K., (1957). The philosophy of literary form: Studies in symbolic action (rev. ed.). New York: Vintage.
7. Burke, K., (1969). A rhetoric of motives. Berkeley: University of California Press. (Original work published 1950)
8. Cargile, J., (1991). Real and nominal definitions. In J. H., Fetzer, D., Shatz, & G., Schlesinger (Eds.), Definitions and definability: Philosophical perspectives (pp. 21–50). Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic.
9. Carroll, R. A., (1971). Black racial spirit: An analysis of James Weldon Johnson's critical perspective. Phyton, 32, 344–364.
10. Charland, M., (1987). Constitutive rhetoric: The case of the Peuple Quebecois. Quarterly Journal of Speech, 73, 133–150.
11. Condit, C. M., & Lucaites, J. L., (1993). Crafting equality: America's Anglo-African word. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
12. Cook, R. A., (1968). Fire from the flint: The amazing careers of Thomas Dixon. Winston-Salem, NC: Blair.
13. Cox, J. R., (1981). Argument and the “definition of the situation.” Central States Speech Journal, 32, 197–205.
14. Crenshaw, C., (1997). Resisting whiteness' rhetorical silence. Western Journal of Communication, 61, 253–278.
15. Dixon, T., Jr. (1902). The leopard's spots: A romance of the white man's burden, 1865-1900. New York: Grosset & Dunlap.
16. Dixon, T., Jr. (1905). The clansman: An historical romance of the Ku Klux Klan. New York: Grossett & Dunlap.
17. Dixon, T., (1912). The sins of the father: A romance of the South. New York: Appleton.
18. Dixon, T., Jr. (1939). The flaming sword Atlanta: Monarch.
19. Ehninger, D., & Brockriede, W., (1963). Decision by debate. New York: Dodd, Mead.
20. Faulkner, H., (1985). James Weldon Johnson's portrait of the artist as invisible man. Black American Literature Forum, 19, 147–151.
21. Fleming, R. E., (1971). Irony as a key to Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man. American Literature, 43, 83–96.
22. Frankenberg, R., (1993). White women, race matters: The social construction of whiteness. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
23. Frye, N., (1967). Anatomy of criticism: Four essays. New York: Atheneum. (Original work published 1957)
24. Gilroy, P., (1993). The black Atlantic: Modernity and double consciousness. London: Verso.
25. Goellnicht. D. C., (1996). Passing as autobiography: James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man. African American Review, 30, 17–33.
26. Goodwin, D., (1991). Distinction, argumentation, and the rhetorical construction of the real. Argumentation and Advocacy, 27, 141–158.
27. Griggs, S. E., (1969). The hindered hand: Or, The reign of the repressionist. Miami, FL: Mnemosyne. (Original work published 1905)
28. Hikins, J. W., (1990). Realism and its implications for rhetorical theory. In R. A. Cherwitz {Ed.), Rhetoric and philosophy (pp. 21–77). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
29. Japtok, M., (1996). Between “race” as construct and “race” as essence: The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man. Southern Literary Journal, 28(2), 32–47.
30. Johnson, J. W., (1960). The autobiography of an ex-coloured man. New York: Hill and Wang. (Original work published 1912)
31. Kinney, J., (1982). The rhetoric of racism: Thomas Dixon and the “damned black beast.” American Literary Realism, 1870–1910, 15, 145–154.
32. Kinney, J., (1985). Amalgamation!: Race, sex, and rhetoric in the nineteenth-century American novel. Westport, CT: Greenwood.
33. Levy, E., (1973). James WeldonJohnson: Black leader, black voice. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
34. Martin, J. B., (1990). Film out of theatre: D. W. Griffith, Birth of a Nation and the melodrama The Clansman. Literature/Film Quarterly, 18, 87–95.
35. McGee, B. R., (1996). Klannishness and the Ku Klux Klan: The rhetoric and ethics of genre theory. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, The Ohio State University.
36. Miller, K., (1908). Race adjustment: Essays on the Negro in America. New York: Neale.
37. Nakayama, T. K., & Krizek, R. L., (1995). Whiteness: A strategic rhetoric. Quarterly Journal of Speech, 81, 291–309.
38. Newby, I. A., (1965) Jim Crow's defense: Anti-Negro thought in America, 1900–1930. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press.
39. Perelm an, C., & Olbrechts-Tyteca, L., (1969). The new rhetoric: A treatise on argumentation (J. Wilkinson & P. Weaver, Trans.). Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press. (Original work published 1958)
40. Perry, M. G., (1994). Reinventing the nation: Anglo-Saxon romantic racial nationalism from Dixon to James. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of California-Santa Cruz.
41. Roediger, D. R., (1991). The wages of whiteness: Race and the making of the American working class. London: Verso.
42. Rorty, R., (1979). Philosophy and the mirror of nature. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
43. Schiappa, E., (1985). Dissociation in the arguments of rhetorical theory. Journal of the American Forensic Association, 22, 72–82.
44. Schiappa, E., (1993). Arguing about definitions. Argumentation, 7, 403–417.
45. Schiappa, E., (1996). Towards a pragmatic approach to definition: “Wetlands” and the politics of meaning. In A., Light & E., Katz (Eds.), Environmental pragmatism (pp. 209–230). London: Routledge.
46. Schrag, C. O., (1985). Rhetoric resituated at the end of philosophy. Quarterly Journal of Speech, 71, 164–174.
47. Scott, R. L., (1967). On viewing rhetoric as epistemic. Central States Speech Journal, 18,9–17.
48. Scott, R. L., (1976). On viewing rhetoric as epistemic: Ten years later. Central States Speech Journal, 27, 258–266.
49. Shepard, D. W., (1973). Stipulated definitions and elementary logic. Central States Speech Journal, 24, 131–136.
50. Skerrett, J. T., Jr. (1980). Irony and symbolic action in James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured man. American Quarterly, 32, 540–558.
51. Sumner, W. G., (1995). The forgotten man. In R. F., Reid (Ed), American rhetorical discourse (pp. 606–620). Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland. (Original essay published 1883)
52. Vatz, R. E., (1973). The myth of the rhetorical situation. Philosophy & Rhetoric, 6, 154–161.
53. Vauthier, S., (1973). The interplay of narrative modes in James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored [sic] Man. Jahrbuch für Amerikastudien, 18, 173–181.
54. Wade, W. C., (1987). The fiery cross: The Ku Klux Klan in America. New York: Touchstone-Simon & Schuster.
55. Wander, P. C., (1971). Salvation through separation: The image of the Negro in the American Colonization Society. Quarterly Journal of Speech, 57, 57–67.
56. Warren, K. W., (1993). Black and white strangers: Race and American literary realism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
57. Weaver, R. M., (1970). Language is sermonic: Richard M. Weaver on the nature of rhetoric (R. L., Johannesen, R., Strickland, & R. T., Eubanks, Eds.). Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press.
58. Weaver, R. M., (1985). The ethics of rhetoric. Davis, CA: Hermagoras. (Original work published 1953)
59. Whinery, C. C., (1905). The clansman. Current Literature, 38, 153–160.
60. White, J. E., (1908). Prohibition: The new task and opportunity of the South. South Atlantic Quarterly, 7, 130–142.
61. Williamson, J., (1984). The crucible of race: Black-white relations in the American South since emancipation. New York: Oxford University Press.
62. Woodward, C. V., (1974). The strange career of Jim Crow (3rd, rev. ed.). New York: Oxford University Press.
63. Zarefsky, D., (1998). Definitions. In J. F., Klumpp (Ed.), Argument in a time of change: Definitions, frameworks, and critiques (pp. 1–11). Annandale, VA: National Communication Association.
64. Zarefsky, D., Miller-Tutzauer, C., & Tutzauer, F. E., (1984). Reagan's safety net for the truly needy: The rhetorical uses of definition. Central States Speech Journal, 35, 113–119.