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Investigates the role of the hush harbour (a safe place for free expression among African American speakers) as a productive space of rhetorical tradition and knowledge generation. Nunley identifies the barbershop as an important hush harbour for black males in particular and traces the powerful cultural trope and its hidden tradition of African American knowledge through multiple texts.

Keepin it hushed

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    A Paperback by Vorris L. Nunley

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      Publisher Wayne State University Press
      Published 2/28/2011 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9780814333488
      978-0814333488
      ISBN-10 0814333486
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      Ethnic studies / Ethnicity

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      Book Synopsis
      Investigates the role of the hush harbour (a safe place for free expression among African American speakers) as a productive space of rhetorical tradition and knowledge generation. Nunley identifies the barbershop as an important hush harbour for black males in particular and traces the powerful cultural trope and its hidden tradition of African American knowledge through multiple texts.

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