Material Type  

 학위논문

 

0017160979

Date and Time of Latest Transaction  

20250211151144

ISBN  

9798382328676

DDC  

305

Author  

Iddrisu, Mohammed Sakip.

Title/Author  

The Call-and-Response of History: Rhetorical and Literate Social Practices of Healing, Re-Education, and Reclaiming Black Humanity Among African Americans in Ghana.

Publish Info  

[S.l.] : Arizona State University., 2024

Publish Info  

Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2024

Material Info  

161 p.

General Note  

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-11, Section: A.

General Note  

Advisor: Long, Elenore.

학위논문주기  

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Arizona State University, 2024.

Abstracts/Etc  

요약This dissertation is about African Americans' transnational rhetorical and literate social practices of reclaiming Black humanity. To this end, it asks: How is the humanity of African Americans rhetorically constituted in relation to Ghana? To reclaim Black humanity, what do African Americans do down the ground and to what end? For those who turn to Ghana to reclaim their humanity, what do they say they need to learn, and need to unlearn in the process of re-education? What does this re-education make possible? Where do they locate (if any) healing in this process of re-education?Currently, people, including those of African descent, are moving across transnational borders at a rate never seen before. In response, scholars in transnational rhetorical studies such as Rebecca Dingo and Blake Scott have challenged the field to account for the workings of "vectors of power" - colonial histories, nation-state power, and the operations of global capital-in people's lives (Dingo and Blake 524). In relation to such movement among people of African descent, leaders in Global Black Rhetorics, Ronisha Browdy and Esther Milu, direct special attention to matters of healing, re-education, and the reclamation of Black humanity. Given its own experiences of brutal colonial histories of chattel slavery, resource exploitation, and current economic challenges, the nation-state of Ghana has become a contested transnational site to theorize African Americans' inventive practices of negotiating these globalized forces which continue to dehumanize them in multiple ways.Heeding the call of cultural icons including W.E.B. Du Bois, Malcolm X, and Maya Angelou to "return home" to Ghana, the participants in this study enact everyday rhetorical and literate social practices such as taking Indigenous Ghanaian names, wearing Indigenous clothing, and engaging in somatic practices at contested historic sites. This dissertation has sought to honor these difficult and yet necessary rhetorical and literate social practices that African Americans deploy on-the-ground in Ghana to achieve their purposes of making a homeplace conducive for their humanity, honoring their ancestral heritage, re-educating themselves, and healing from epistemic and ontological harm as feats towards reclaiming Black humanity. In honoring these rhetorical and literate social practices of African Americans returning home to Ghana, I invoked bell hooks' concept of homeplace and African philosophical and epistemic concepts of Ubuntu relationality and Sankofa. And yet the call to return home is not without its challenges-challenges that underscore the contributions of participatory rhetorical research in such transnationally complex domains.

Subject Added Entry-Topical Term  

African American studies.

Subject Added Entry-Topical Term  

Black studies.

Subject Added Entry-Topical Term  

Rhetoric.

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African Americans in Ghana

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Black humanity

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Global Black Rhetorics

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Literacy practices

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Ubuntu relationality

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Arizona State University English

Host Item Entry  

Dissertations Abstracts International. 85-11A.

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