Includes bibliographical references and index. - Theoretical overview -- Discourse of the British anti-Corn Law movement in The Sheffield independent and Ebenezer Elliott's protest poems -- "Mining a small town newspaper : unearthing Negro colonizationist ideology in The Haverhill gazette and Essex patriot (MA), 1824-1827" -- The topography of violence in John Greenleaf Whittier's "antislavery poems" -- Hijacking and pro-creating signifiers : extending discourse analysis to pedagogy and the value of hip-hop-ology