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Hello Everyone!
My name is Rolanda and I am from Hampton, Virginia. I attend St. John's University in Queens, New York and am a Legal Studies major in the College of Professional Studies as well as an English major in St. John's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. I created this website to track all of the things I learned in my English class entitled African American Women's Rhetoric with Prof. Carmen Kynard. Our class touches on many empowering black women and many of which, embarrassing enough to say, I didn't even know existed! This class has taught me so much thus far and this website is simply to share with the rest of the world some of the main things I have learned. After being in this class for quite a few months now, I have been fortunate enough to come up with my own personal definition of what I feel Black Women's Rhetoric truly is. I feel African American Women use every aspect of their spiritual and physical being to relay messages of both past and present experiences for the benevolence of their, as Rachelle Farrell would so eloquently put it, “sistas”. My definition of African American Women’s Rhetoric: African American women refuse to settle for the advancement “given” to them by those who falsely believe they are the ones who actually freed black women. African American women know where they come from and know what they must do to maintain the advancement they created for THEMSELVES. Through literature, dance, and oral performance, African American women continue to uplift one another to keep on keeping on. Thus, the secret to African American Women’s Rhetoric. So without further ado... Let the analysis of some of the most powerful women to ever walk this earth, BEGIN. |