Words are acts: Critical race theory as a rhetorical construct

Howard Journal of Communications

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 323-331

  Olmsted, Audrey P ^a  

^a RHODE ISLAND COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Critical Race Theory; Law; Speech Act Theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84933477157     PISSN: 10646175     EISSN: 10964649     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/106461798246934     Document Type: Article

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