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Trailer Park Kid from Rural West Virginia. First-Generation College Student. College Professor. Reader. Writer. Husband. Daddy. Boxing Aficionado. Rappalachian. Coffee Junkie. Working-Class Scholar. Not in that particular order. I teach college courses that focus on rhetoric’s connection to identity construction. I write about this sort of stuff too. My first book, The Rhetoric of Appalachian …
BeatBoxing: How Hip-Hop Changed the Fight Game [Coming Fall 2021] Daryl McDonald, of the iconic rap group Run-D.M.C, once argued that Muhammad Ali’s “Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee,” was hip-hop’s most famous lyric. Ali’s poetic brilliance, nurtured by corner man and street poet Drew “Bundini” Brown, provided the rhetorical formula that served as the templet for how Hip Hop artists …
