Browsing by Subject "Civil rights movement"

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Color of law and the legacy of the civil rights movement : writing a television drama procedural with historical elements
(2016-08) Bautze, Alessandra Victoria; McCreery, Cindy; Kelban, Stuart
This report details the process by which the author, a candidate in the M.F.A. in Screenwriting program at The University of Texas at Austin, wrote COLOR OF LAW, a television pilot for a one-hour drama, a procedural with historical elements. The author reflects on this process by outlining the steps she took to plan, execute, and revise her script, all the while using what she had learned in the graduate program to ultimately complete the script.
The limits of civility in the civil rights and Black Power movements : three African-American women's autobiographies
(2009-12) Boade, Erin Alane; Roberts-Miller, Patricia, 1959-
Rhetoricians have long praised argumentation as a productive alternative to violence, and while I agree that it can be such an alternative, my dissertation aims to complicate our understanding of both violence and coercion by illumination how the strictures of civility limit the rhetoric of dissent. This study makes two main arguments, 1), that the dominant narrative of the civil rights and Black Power movements has been insufficiently challenged by rhetoricians, and 2), that this lack can be explained in part by these scholars’ preference for civility and decorum over coercion in persuasion. I argue that both the civil rights and Black Power movements share similarities both tactically and philosophically. Looking beyond assessing these movements in terms of their alleged levels of civility allows us more fully to account for the complexity of their rhetorical situations. I use black women’s autobiographies as my focus because they allow a glimpse into the quotidian nature of the civil rights and Black Power movement’s struggles, one that lies on the margin of the media spotlight on movement leadership. In addition, these autobiographies unveil the multiple audiences activist rhetors faced in ways that major speeches, penned and delivered by men, cannot.