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Keepin' it hushed

by Vorris Nunley

African Americans in literatureBlack EnglishRhetoricCommunicationPopular cultureHistory and criticismAmerican literatureBarbershops

"As Keepin' it Hushed will illustrate, African American hush harbor rhetoric (AAHHR) remains a powerful aspect of African American rhetoric containing and conveying African American epistemes and rationalities central to African American life and culture and to what Black folks are puttin' down. Away from the disciplining gaze of whiteness. This rhetoric emerges from camouflaged spaces and places.... Enslaved and free African Americans referred to these spatialities as hush harbors" -- from the introduction.

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