Leslie J Harris
Biographic Data
| ID | 5595831 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leslie J Harris |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leslie J |
| FAMILY NAME | Harris |
| SIGNATURE | HARRIS L J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee |
| ORCID | 0009-0009-6145-4675 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Differentiated mobility and national belonging in Gonzales v. Williams
In August 1902, 20-year-old Isabel Gonzalez arrived at the Ellis Island immigration station on a ship coming from the US territory of Puerto Rico.1 Immigration inspectors had a tremendous amount of...
Mothering a Legacy
Lucy McBath, renowned for her advocacy against gun violence, defied expectations as the first Black woman to represent Georgia’s predominantly white 6th congressional district. Given the constraints that Black women face in politics, McBath’s campaign offers an important case for studying how Black women utilize motherhood rhetoric for political agency. We argue that McBath’s rhetoric, rooted in revolutionary motherhood, constructs motherhood as …
Gun violence rhetoric in Milwaukee
Feminist Relational Agency and the Cultural Contestation of Heteronormative Gender Norms in the Indian American Diaspora
The Rhetoric of White Slavery and the Making of National Identity
Forensic Rhetoric and Racial Justice
By turning to the case study of the 1893 pamphlet The Reason Why the Colored American is Not in the World’s Columbian Exposition, we identify forensic rhetoric as a critical, yet under-theorized, tool of racial justice advocacy. Written by Ida B. Wells, Frederick Douglass, Irvine Garland Penn, and Ferdinand Lee Barnett, The Reason Why challenged systemic exclusion and racial oppression by utilizing a forensic rhetoric characterized by a forensic …
Whores” and “Hottentots”
Through an analysis of anti-suffrage arguments, I identify white supremacist tropes as an important strand in woman suffrage debates. I argue that sexualization and themes of home were signals to racial bias, and American womanhood was used as a rhetorical resource in struggles over race and national identity. As we celebrate the centennial of woman suffrage, it is vital to recognize how debates over women in national space participate in white s…
Rhetorical mobilities and the city
The case study of an early twentieth century controversy over “white slavery” demonstrates the importance of an explicit consideration of mobility based rhetoric to understanding space and political subjectivities within space. Through an analytical framework of mobility that considers scale, connection, time, and agency, I find that the city was constructed as a gendered and racialized space, which enabled restrictions to corporal mobility. I pr…
True’ Americans and ‘Violent’ Immigrants
As a social category ‘immigrant’ can function rhetorically to constitute a line between self and Other. The case study of spousal murder in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Chicago illustrates that Americans attempted to make sense of these murders by scapegoating immigrants. Statistical data illustrate that immigrants were no more likely to murder a spouse than anyone else. Yet, analysis of the rhetoric about wife murder in Chicago ne…
Motherhood, Race, and Gender
Motherhood has often been understood as an important rhetorical appeal for nineteenth-century women. In this essay I argue that rhetorical constructions of motherhood grounded in a myth of "true motherhood" can be understood to function as both a persona and topos in nineteenth-century women's rhetoric, and motherhood worked in complex ways in relation to race. By examining the Liberty Bell, an antislavery giftbook series. I suggest that rhetoric…
Motherhood, Race, and Gender
Motherhood has often been understood as an important rhetorical appeal for nineteenth-century women. In this essay I argue that rhetorical constructions of motherhood grounded in a myth of "true motherhood" can be understood to function as both a persona and topos in nineteenth-century women's rhetoric, and motherhood worked in complex ways in relation to race. By examining the Liberty Bell, an antislavery giftbook series. I suggest that rhetoric…
True’ Americans and ‘Violent’ Immigrants
As a social category ‘immigrant’ can function rhetorically to constitute a line between self and Other. The case study of spousal murder in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Chicago illustrates that Americans attempted to make sense of these murders by scapegoating immigrants. Statistical data illustrate that immigrants were no more likely to murder a spouse than anyone else. Yet, analysis of the rhetoric about wife murder in Chicago ne…
Motherhood, Race, and Gender
Motherhood has often been understood as an important rhetorical appeal for nineteenth-century women. In this essay I argue that rhetorical constructions of motherhood grounded in a myth of "true motherhood" can be understood to function as both a persona and topos in nineteenth-century women's rhetoric, and motherhood worked in complex ways in relation to race. By examining the Liberty Bell, an antislavery giftbook series. I suggest that rhetoric…
True’ Americans and ‘Violent’ Immigrants
As a social category ‘immigrant’ can function rhetorically to constitute a line between self and Other. The case study of spousal murder in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Chicago illustrates that Americans attempted to make sense of these murders by scapegoating immigrants. Statistical data illustrate that immigrants were no more likely to murder a spouse than anyone else. Yet, analysis of the rhetoric about wife murder in Chicago ne…
Rhetorical mobilities and the city
The case study of an early twentieth century controversy over “white slavery” demonstrates the importance of an explicit consideration of mobility based rhetoric to understanding space and political subjectivities within space. Through an analytical framework of mobility that considers scale, connection, time, and agency, I find that the city was constructed as a gendered and racialized space, which enabled restrictions to corporal mobility. I pr…
Whores” and “Hottentots”
Through an analysis of anti-suffrage arguments, I identify white supremacist tropes as an important strand in woman suffrage debates. I argue that sexualization and themes of home were signals to racial bias, and American womanhood was used as a rhetorical resource in struggles over race and national identity. As we celebrate the centennial of woman suffrage, it is vital to recognize how debates over women in national space participate in white s…
Forensic Rhetoric and Racial Justice
By turning to the case study of the 1893 pamphlet The Reason Why the Colored American is Not in the World’s Columbian Exposition, we identify forensic rhetoric as a critical, yet under-theorized, tool of racial justice advocacy. Written by Ida B. Wells, Frederick Douglass, Irvine Garland Penn, and Ferdinand Lee Barnett, The Reason Why challenged systemic exclusion and racial oppression by utilizing a forensic rhetoric characterized by a forensic …
The Rhetoric of White Slavery and the Making of National Identity
Gun violence rhetoric in Milwaukee
Feminist Relational Agency and the Cultural Contestation of Heteronormative Gender Norms in the Indian American Diaspora
Mothering a Legacy
Lucy McBath, renowned for her advocacy against gun violence, defied expectations as the first Black woman to represent Georgia’s predominantly white 6th congressional district. Given the constraints that Black women face in politics, McBath’s campaign offers an important case for studying how Black women utilize motherhood rhetoric for political agency. We argue that McBath’s rhetoric, rooted in revolutionary motherhood, constructs motherhood as …
Differentiated mobility and national belonging in Gonzales v. Williams
In August 1902, 20-year-old Isabel Gonzalez arrived at the Ellis Island immigration station on a ship coming from the US territory of Puerto Rico.1 Immigration inspectors had a tremendous amount of...
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