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Double-Consciousness and the Rhetoric of Barack Obama: The Price and Promise of Citizenship

ables influencing Hamer’s rhetorical successes and failures as the Mississippi sharecroppers began to move in larger political circles. As Brooks works towards the ending of this brilliant tome, it becomes clear that the scope of Hamer’s rhetorical contributions to the black freedom struggle were tremendous and polysemic. And as Brooks documents in the conclusion, Hamer’s influence on movement rhetoric and strategy was remarkable given her biography, her longevity, and the massive strain under which she spoke and organized. Particularly as memories of her circulated in accounts of her state and museum, Hamer has become an icon of the movement in which she was so instrumental. The circulation of her image, words, and deeds helps to refine our microhistories of the black freedom struggle precisely because her contributions were so dense and multifaceted. A Voice That Could Stir an Army is painstakingly researched, methodologically interesting, and a tremendously satisfying addition to rhetorical scholarship on both Mississippi civil rights history and Hamer’s rich rhetorical life. For scholars researching and teaching the black freedom struggle, Brooks’s book is a magnificent addition, providing a deep reading of Hamer’s roots in the vernacular rhetorical style of her community. Particularly as rhetoricians produce more case studies on the vernacular, Brooks’s book adds the kind of rich nuance enviable of multi-method study.