In his role as chair of the Commission on Civil Rights, Clarence M. Pendleton created a paradoxical worldview by playing the role of a clown to express the Reagan‐Bush administration's policy on affirmative action. He sustained this worldview through a formal paradox, “I am the nonblack black leader/’ Three speeches that Pendleton gave show that he sustained this formal paradox by rhetorically creating a constituency and by incorporating African American styles of address into his speeches.
Howard Journal of Communications
Volume 3, 1992 - Issue 3-4
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