ABSTRACT This essay examines the voting rights advocacy of Congress member Barbara C. Jordan. Drawing on some of Jordan’s lesser known speeches, including an address commemorating the 75th anniversary of the nineteenth amendment and congressional testimony on the Voting Rights Act of 1975, I highlight how Jordan rhetorically refigured dominant understandings of the meaning of the vote based on gender, race, and ethnicity. Although she was certain to commemorate past suffrage successes, Jordan also contested and nuanced these notions, reminding her audiences that the quest for equitable voting rights was a long, ongoing, coalitional struggle.

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芭芭拉乔丹和正在进行的投票权斗争

摘要 本文考察了国会议员 Barbara C. Jordan 的投票权倡导。借鉴乔丹的一些鲜为人知的演讲，包括纪念第十九修正案生效 75 周年的讲话和国会对 1975 年《投票权法案》的证词，我强调了乔丹如何在修辞上重新塑造了对基于性别、种族的投票意义的主流理解，和种族。尽管她肯定会纪念过去在选举中取得的成功，但乔丹也对这些概念提出了质疑并提出了细微差别，提醒她的听众寻求公平投票权是一场长期的、持续的、联合斗争。