The Color Brown
This is a response to the most recent posting at Blogos. It appears from a list posted on this blog that rhetorical scholars study (among many things), the color brown. In order to catch up, I propose the following reports, articles, essays, papers & etc.:
1) The Color Brown as the New Power Suit: A Study in Visual Rhetoric and the Influence of Fashion on Political Debate.
2) Brown-out or Black-out? How Color is Rhetorically Deployed to Describe Electrical Conditions
3) Brown v. Board: Implications for the Rhetoric of Race in America
4) Brownfields: Environmental Discourse in the Rhetorics of Science and Pollution
5) Brownies: Feminist Rhetoric, Citizenship, and Food, 1914-1941
I've got dibs on Brown v. Board. Given that the Supreme Court drew four related cases together in the famous ruling Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas (the other cases were: Briggs v. Elliot, Davis v. County School Board of Prince Edward County, Virginia, and Gebhart v. Belton), I wonder why "Brown" was chosen over the others. Briggs v. Elliot, for example, sounds more formal and is more accurate in its succinctness than Brown v. Board. And Gebhart v. Belton has a more poetic ring to it. One might argue that the Supreme Court elevated Brown because of the word's race implications. In fact, the decision is named after the Brown case because it had the lower docket number.
1) The Color Brown as the New Power Suit: A Study in Visual Rhetoric and the Influence of Fashion on Political Debate.
2) Brown-out or Black-out? How Color is Rhetorically Deployed to Describe Electrical Conditions
3) Brown v. Board: Implications for the Rhetoric of Race in America
4) Brownfields: Environmental Discourse in the Rhetorics of Science and Pollution
5) Brownies: Feminist Rhetoric, Citizenship, and Food, 1914-1941
I've got dibs on Brown v. Board. Given that the Supreme Court drew four related cases together in the famous ruling Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas (the other cases were: Briggs v. Elliot, Davis v. County School Board of Prince Edward County, Virginia, and Gebhart v. Belton), I wonder why "Brown" was chosen over the others. Briggs v. Elliot, for example, sounds more formal and is more accurate in its succinctness than Brown v. Board. And Gebhart v. Belton has a more poetic ring to it. One might argue that the Supreme Court elevated Brown because of the word's race implications. In fact, the decision is named after the Brown case because it had the lower docket number.
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