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Acknowledgments
Introduction: Don't Call It a Comeback: The Rhetorical Successes of the Black Arts Movement
Chapter 1. "Art for All Our Sake": Frameworks for Assessing Black Arts Writers' Rhetorical Legacies
Chapter 2. "Our Distaste for the Enemy, Our Love for Each Other": The Radical Rhetoric of Blame and Praise in Black Arts Movement Poetry
Chapter 3. "A Tradition of Beautiful Talk": The Black Arts Poet-Rhetor and the Black Is Beautiful Movement

Chapter 4. "Most of My Heroes Don't Appear on No Stamps": Toasts, Hip-Hop, and the Black Pride Movement
Chapter 5. "Woman Power / Is / Black Power / Is / Human Power": Resistance Rhetoric of Black Arts Women Poets
Coda: "A Language That We Been Speaking": Twenty-First-Century Echoes of the Black Arts Movement
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