Histories of the Future: Discursive antithesis on progress and social change in radical education
Date of Award
August 2018
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
Communication and Rhetorical Studies
Advisor(s)
Dana L. Cloud
Keywords
antithesis, Black Panther Party, critical pedagogy, radical education
Subject Categories
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Abstract
This thesis explores the rhetoric of social change as demonstrated in radical programs of education. The concept of radical social change necessarily disrupts hegemonic ideas of subjectivity. This study focuses on the Black Panther Intercommunal News Service as a source of political education to investigate how radical pedagogues constructed the contemporaneous moment as a meaningful time for radical consciousness. Subjective and historical antithesis are discussed as rhetorical strategies which provoke new cognition about who the oppressed are are and what they can do in the face of the stifling contradictions of global capitalism. This study does not definitively laud antithesis as a rhetorical strategy, but rather concludes with reflections on the radical potential of antithesis in the moments before revolution.
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Recommended Citation
Olaniyan, Oreoluwa, "Histories of the Future: Discursive antithesis on progress and social change in radical education" (2018). Theses - ALL. 270.
https://surface.syr.edu/thesis/270