Advances in the History of Rhetoric Sep 2019

Dissociating Power and Racism: Stokely Carmichael at Berkeley

Justin D. Hatch

Abstract

ABSTRACT An analysis of Stokely Carmichael’s dissociation of “racism” attempted at UC Berkeley on October 29, 1966 extends the utility of Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca’s “dissociation of concepts” for those seeking racial justice. I offer a new term “subversive dissociations” to theorize the foundations of racist dominant narratives as what Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca call “linguistic common property.” This move reframes dissociative challenges to dominant narratives as attempts to counter other dissociations and thus makes available a set of tools outlined in The New Rhetoric for that purpose. Dissociation emerges as a dynamic anti-racist strategy.

Journal
Advances in the History of Rhetoric
Published
2019-09-02
DOI
10.1080/15362426.2019.1671705
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Topics
race and writing

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