Jacqueline Bacon is an independent scholar whose research
and writing focus broadly on historical questions about language,
empowerment, activism, and social justice. She received a Ph.D.
in English from the University of Texas at Austin with an emphasis
in rhetoric in 1997.
Her publications consider a variety of subjects, including nineteenth-century
African-American history and rhetoric, women's rhetoric, media criticism,
and issues of race and gender in contemporary society. She is particularly
interested in the ways that people who are marginalized use the
power of language to create positive identities, to fight for civil
rights, and to critique institutional and societal oppression.
Bacon writes for a variety of audiences. As her diverse interests
demonstrate, she wishes to engage in conversations both within academic
circles and beyond them, believing that scholarly engagement with
historical questions about race, gender, and oppression can inform
contemporary debates and activism. Her most recent publications
include:
- African Americans and the Haitian Revolution: Selected
Essays and Historical Documents, a collection coedited
with Maurice Jackson and published by Routledge in 2010, which
brings together scholarly essays and primary documents to explore
and illustrate the influence of the Haitian Revolution of the
1790s on African American intellectuals and activists from the
eighteenth century to the present day
- "Black History Month in the Obama Era," published
on the History News Network website in 2009, which explores how
President Barack Obama's election to the presidency enables us
to ask new questions, consider new paradigms, and incorporate
forgotten heroes as we study and celebrate African American history
- Freedom's Journal: The First African-American Newspaper,
a book published by Lexington Books, which provides a comprehensive
history of the first African-American newspaper, published in
New York from 1827 to 1829; traces the influence of this groundbreaking
periodical; and uses the information in its columns to create
a rich, detailed portrait of African-American life in the late
1820s
- "Descendents of Africa, Sons of '76: Exploring Early African-American
Rhetoric," coauthored with Glen McClish and published in
Rhetoric Society Quarterly in 2006, an exploration of African
American rhetoric of the early Republic, a period previously underexplored,
and its influence on later discourse
For a complete list of Bacon's publications, click
here.
Jacqueline Bacon lives in San Diego, California, with her husband
Glen McClish and their two sons.
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