Summary
In Matthew Abraham’s chapter, the rhetorical connectivity informing how communities in different places signify to and communicate with one another, whose study makes the parallels between the fate of the Palestinian community in Israel–Palestine and the historical suffering of African Americans legible (Recognizing and Saving Black Lives, Recognizing and Saving Palestinian Lives: The Power of Transnational Rhetorics in Locating the Commonality of Liberation Struggles, PDF p.4 / printed p.80).
Details
- Abraham’s subtitle presents transnational rhetorics as the power “in locating the commonality of liberation struggles”: by finding commonalities between the Black Lives Matter movement and the efforts to liberate Palestinians, rhetoricians can develop strategies for resisting anti-Semitism, terrorism and anti-white racism, including symbolic protests and attention to specific stories of loss and trauma (PDF p.1, 3 / printed p.79).
- The connectivity is material as well as discursive in his account: expressions of solidarity circulated in social media after Ferguson assumed a prominence signalling a shift in activist engagement, Palestinian activists tweeted tear-gas advice to Ferguson protesters, and US military equipment transferred to local police linked domestic and international policing (PDF p.4, 7, 11 / printed p.80, 83, 87).
- Abraham cites Rebecca Dingo’s Networking Arguments: Rhetoric, Transnational Feminism, and Public Policy Writing at note 1 for rhetoricians’ consideration of how US minority communities’ circumstances connect to minority suffering on other continents (PDF p.4, 11 / printed p.80, 87).
Related pages
Recognizing and Saving Black Lives, Recognizing and Saving Palestinian Lives: The Power of Transnational Rhetorics in Locating the Commonality of Liberation Struggles, Black–Palestinian solidarity, Intersectionality