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1 online resource : illustrations |
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Foreword: Unleashed-Whiteness as predatory culture / Lilia D. Monzó and Peter McLaren -- Introduction: Oxymoronic Whiteness-from the White House to Ferguson / Tammie M. Kennedy, Joyce Irene Middleton, and Krista Ratcliffe -- Not everybody's protest novel: White fictions of antiracism from Stowe to Stockett / Gregory Jay -- The Help as noncomplicit identification and nostalgic revision / Christine Farris -- Must(n't) see TV: hidden Whiteness in representations of women of color / Anita M. DeRouen and M. Shane Grant -- Color-blind rhetoric in Obama's 2008 "race speech": the appeal to Whiteness and the disciplining of racial rhetorical studies / Kristi McDuffie -- Racialized slacktivism: social media performances of White antiracism / Tim Engles -- The ghost's in the machine: eHarmony and the reification of Whiteness and heteronormativity / Sarah E. Austin -- Faceook and absent-present rhetorics of Whiteness / Jennifer Beech -- Washing education White: Arizona's HB 2281 and the curricular investment in Whiteness / Lee Bebout -- How Whiteness haunts the textbook industry: the reception of nonwhites in composition textbooks / Cedric Burrows -- The triumph of Whiteness: dual credit courses and hierarchical racism in Texas / Casie Moreland and Keith D. Miller -- On the cover of the Rolling Stone: deconstructing monsters and terrorism in an era of postracial Whiteness / Leda Cooks -- The pedagogical role of a White instructor's racial awareness narrative / Meagan Rodgers -- Practicing mindfulness: a pedagogical tool for spotlighting Whiteness / Alice McIntyre -- Whiteness as racialized space: Obama and the rhetorical constraints of phenotypical Blackness / Ersula Ore -- Color deafness: White writing as palimpsest for African American English in Breaking Bad screen captioning and video technologies / Nicole Ashanti McFarlane and Nicole E. Snell -- Whiteness as antidialogical / Ronald A. Kuykendall -- Epilogue / Tammie M. Kennedy, Joyce Irene Middleton, and Krista Ratcliffe |
| Summary |
Winner, CCCC Outstanding Book Award in the Edited Collection Category, 2018 With the election of our first black president, many Americans began to argue that we had finally ended racism, claiming that we now live in a postracial era. Yet near-daily news reports regularly invoke white as a demographic category and recount instances of racialized violence as well as an increased sensitivity to expressions of racial unrest. Clearly, American society isn't as color-blind as people would like to believe. In Rhetorics of Whiteness: Postracial Hauntings in Popular Culture, Social Media, and Education, contributors reveal how identifications with racialized whiteness continue to manifest themselves in American culture. The sixteen essays that comprise this collection not only render visible how racialized whiteness infiltrates new twenty-first-century discourses and material spaces but also offer critical tactics for disrupting this normative whiteness. Specifically, contributors examine popular culture (novels, films, TV), social media (YouTube, eHarmony, Facebook), education (state law, the textbook industry, dual credit programs), pedagogy (tactics for teaching via narratives, emotional literacy, and mindfulness) as well as cultural theories (concepts of racialized space, anti-dialogicism, and color blindness). Offering new approaches to understanding racialized whiteness, this volume emphasizes the importance of a rhetorical lens for employing whiteness studies' theories and methods to identify, analyze, interpret, and interrupt representations of whiteness. Although whiteness studies has been waning as an active research field for the past decade, the contributors to Rhetorics of Whiteness assert that it hasn't lost its relevancy because racialized whiteness and issues of systemic racism persist in American society and culture today. Few whiteness studies texts have been published in rhetoric and composition in the past decade, so this collection should quickly become mandatory reading. By focusing on common, yet often overlooked, contemporary examples of how racialized whiteness haunts U.S. society, Rhetorics of Whiteness serves as a valuable text for scholars in the field as well as anyone else interested in the topic |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed April 13, 2021) |
| Subject |
Racism in popular culture -- United States
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Racism in mass media.
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Social media -- United States
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Racism in education -- United States
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White people -- Race identity -- United States
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African Americans -- Race identity.
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Post-racialism -- United States
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Rhetoric -- Social aspects -- United States
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Rhetoric -- Political aspects -- United States
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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African Americans -- Race identity
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Post-racialism
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Race relations
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Racism in education
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Racism in mass media
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Racism in popular culture
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Rhetoric -- Political aspects
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Rhetoric -- Social aspects
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Social media
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White people -- Race identity
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United States -- Race relations.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140494
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United States
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Kennedy, Tammie M., editor.
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Middleton, Joyce Irene, editor.
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Ratcliffe, Krista, 1958- editor.
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| ISBN |
9780809335473 |
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0809335476 |
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