"Arts of Contact Zone": Theories of Malcolm X

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This paper discusses the theories found in "Arts of Contact Zone" as seen in the communication style of Malcolm X. Pratt's concept of a 'contact zone' is introduced and then defined in terms of Malcolm X. Examples of his leadership and communication style are given as they fit with the theories of Pratt.

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""Arts of the Contact Zone." By Pratt, Mary Louise, states the art of conversation, and communication depends upon varying cultures, their dominance over one another and the perspective that one sees the other from its own. Malcolm X's autobiography published shortly after his murder in 1965, relates in the matter of communication, and "contact zone" so highly accomplished with his group of people that only a physical gesture of a finger was sufficient enough to silence a crowd of millions, in a public gathering."

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