Crafting Equality: America's Anglo-African Word

by John Louis Lucaites and Celeste Michelle Condit

Book Overview

Philosophers and historians often treat fundamental concepts like equality as if they existed only as fixed ideas found solely in the canonical texts of civilization. In Crafting Equality, Celeste Michelle Condit and John Louis Lucaites argue that the meaning of at least one key word--equality--has been forged in the day-to-day pragmatics of public discourse.

Drawing upon little studied speeches, newspapers, magazines, and other public...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226114651
• ISBN13: 9780226114651
• Release Date: May 1993
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 378 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"