TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tracy,Karen
AU  - McDaniel,James P.
AU  - Gronbeck,Bruce E.
TI  - The prettier doll: rhetoric, discourse, and ordinary democracy 
T2  - Rhetoric, culture and social critique
SN  - 9780817380236
AV  - JA85.2.U6 P74 2007eb
U1  - 320.97301/4 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Tuscaloosa
PB  - University of Alabama Press
KW  - Communication in politics
KW  - United States
KW  - Rhetoric
KW  - Democracy
KW  - Communication politique
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Rhétorique
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Government
KW  - National
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Politische Kommunikation
KW  - gnd
KW  - Demokratie
KW  - USA
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - gtlm
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction : a moment of ordinary democracy / Karen Tracy -- Through the looking glass and back : democratic theory, rhetoric, and Barbiegate / James P. McDaniel and Bruce E. Gronbeck -- Race, liberalism, and Barbiegate discourse : a dilemma-centered rhetorical analysis / Herbert W. Simons -- Political performances in public proceedings : the social dramas of Barbiegate / Bruce E. Gronbeck -- Darkness on the edge of town : on the interface between communicational and racial ideologies / Darrin Hicks -- Marking and shifting lines in the sand : discursive moves of ordinary democracy / Kathleen Haspel and Karen Tracy -- Chairing democracy : psychology, time, and negotiating the institution / Jonathan Potter and Alexa Hepburn -- Understanding ordinary democracy : the intersection of discourse and rhetorical analysis / Mark Aakhus -- Amateur hour : knowing what to love in ordinary democracy / Robert Hariman -- Appendix A : transcripts of BVSD speeches -- Appendix B : newspaper and school district documents; Electronic reproduction; [Place of publication not identified]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2010
N2  - Essays in the The Prettier Doll focus on the same local controversy: in 2001,a third-grade girl in Colorado submitted an experiment to the school science fair. She asked 30 adults and 30 fifth-graders which of two Barbie dolls was prettier. One doll was black, the other white, and each wore a different colored dress. All of the adults picked the Barbie in the purple dress, while nearly all of the fifth graders picked the white Barbie. When the student's experiment was banned an uproar resulted that spread to the national media
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