Toward a critical rhetorical pedagogy: Extending the instruction of communication activism through the African American rhetorical tradition

This activity draws on the African American rhetorical tradition to extend the project of communication activism pedagogy. Through instruction that decenters the Greco-Roman rhetorical tradition, this assignment invites students to engage in protest rhetoric that facilitates an understanding of how to use communication and rhetorical resources to argue for social change. Students learn to build persuasive arguments in unconventional yet culturally sustaining ways.