Andre E Johnson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3959090 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andre E Johnson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andre E |
| FAMILY NAME | Johnson |
| SIGNATURE | JOHNSON A E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Memphis Theological Seminary |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Summer of 2020
Exploring a monumental season of Black Lives Matter support, The Summer of 2020 documents the meanings, motivations, and experiences of movement participants during the tumultuous period following George Floyd’s public murder at the hands of white police officer Derek Chauvin. The Summer of 2020 is packed with interviews with real activists–from seasoned organizers to first time protesters–revealing the complexity of taking a stand, especially in…
My Sanctified Imagination
In 1925, Herbert Wichelns published The Literary Criticism of Oratory. By many accounts, the essay would become the founding document of the academic study of rhetoric and public address. However, in that same year, historian Carter G. Woodson published Negro Orators and Their Orations, which focused on the study of the African American oratorical tradition. In this essay, by way of speculative history and using my sanctified imagination, I wonde…
MLK and the Meeting That Never Was
In a speech given to students at Grosse Pointe High School on March 14, 1968, just three weeks before his death, Martin Luther King addressed the uprisings that consumed America during this time. During the same time that King delivered this speech, plans were underway for a retreat that would have brought King together with the Trappist monk Thomas Merton. While we will never know what both men would have talked about or what they would have don…
Taking the Inward Journey
Tyler Perry and the Rhetoric of Madea
In this essay, we will explore the variances in Madea's character and presence on stage and on screen in both productions of Tyler Perry's Madea Goes to Jail: The Play and Madea Goes to Jail. Specifically, we examine the multiple and varying ways in which the character of Madea performs for different audiences by examining how the roles of violence, religion and wisdom operate on stage and screen. Exploring the subtle-and at times, not-so-subtle-…
God is a Negro
In this essay, I argue that Henry McNeal Turner was doing something way more complex than just declaring "God is a Negro" when he uttered this iconic statement. It is my belief he was offering a deep theological analysis on God-talk, language and hermeneutics, in addition to providing a radical version of a contextual theology that predates our modern understanding of the term. In addition, Turner's editorial also offers a critique to the hegemon…
The Prophetic Persona of James Cone and the Rhetorical Theology of Black Theology
It has been forty years since James Cone burst on the scene with his provocative and challenging book Black Theology and Black Power. However, as Black Theology made its way through the halls of academia, Cone faced not only theological challenges but he also faced rhetorical challenges along the way. In this essay, drawing upon what I call rhetorical theology, I argue that in order to present Black Theology as a theological enterprise, Cone not …
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The Prophetic Persona of James Cone and the Rhetorical Theology of Black Theology
It has been forty years since James Cone burst on the scene with his provocative and challenging book Black Theology and Black Power. However, as Black Theology made its way through the halls of academia, Cone faced not only theological challenges but he also faced rhetorical challenges along the way. In this essay, drawing upon what I call rhetorical theology, I argue that in order to present Black Theology as a theological enterprise, Cone not …
God is a Negro
In this essay, I argue that Henry McNeal Turner was doing something way more complex than just declaring "God is a Negro" when he uttered this iconic statement. It is my belief he was offering a deep theological analysis on God-talk, language and hermeneutics, in addition to providing a radical version of a contextual theology that predates our modern understanding of the term. In addition, Turner's editorial also offers a critique to the hegemon…
Tyler Perry and the Rhetoric of Madea
In this essay, we will explore the variances in Madea's character and presence on stage and on screen in both productions of Tyler Perry's Madea Goes to Jail: The Play and Madea Goes to Jail. Specifically, we examine the multiple and varying ways in which the character of Madea performs for different audiences by examining how the roles of violence, religion and wisdom operate on stage and screen. Exploring the subtle-and at times, not-so-subtle-…
MLK and the Meeting That Never Was
In a speech given to students at Grosse Pointe High School on March 14, 1968, just three weeks before his death, Martin Luther King addressed the uprisings that consumed America during this time. During the same time that King delivered this speech, plans were underway for a retreat that would have brought King together with the Trappist monk Thomas Merton. While we will never know what both men would have talked about or what they would have don…
Taking the Inward Journey
My Sanctified Imagination
In 1925, Herbert Wichelns published The Literary Criticism of Oratory. By many accounts, the essay would become the founding document of the academic study of rhetoric and public address. However, in that same year, historian Carter G. Woodson published Negro Orators and Their Orations, which focused on the study of the African American oratorical tradition. In this essay, by way of speculative history and using my sanctified imagination, I wonde…
The Summer of 2020
Exploring a monumental season of Black Lives Matter support, The Summer of 2020 documents the meanings, motivations, and experiences of movement participants during the tumultuous period following George Floyd’s public murder at the hands of white police officer Derek Chauvin. The Summer of 2020 is packed with interviews with real activists–from seasoned organizers to first time protesters–revealing the complexity of taking a stand, especially in…
Philosophy (5 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · History (3 works) · Rhetoric (3 works) · Rhetoric and Communication Studies (3 works) · Rhetorical question (3 works) · Theology (3 works)