Rhetorics of Whiteness: Postracial Hauntings in Popular Culture, Social Media, and Education - Softcover

Kennedy, Tammie M.; Middleton, Joyce Irene

9780809335466: Rhetorics of Whiteness: Postracial Hauntings in Popular Culture, Social Media, and Education

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ISBN 10: 0809335468 ISBN 13: 9780809335466

Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press, 2017

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With the election of our first black president, many Americans began to argue that we had finally ended racism. Yet near-daily news reports regularly invoke white as a demographic category and recount instances of racialized violence. 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 twenty-first-century discourses and material spaces but also offer critical tactics for disrupting this normative whiteness.

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About the Authors

Tammie M. Kennedy is an associate professor of English at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. She has published essays in a number of journals, including Rhetoric Review, JAC, Feminist Formations, and the Journal of Lesbian Studies, and chapters in several books.

Joyce Irene Middleton is an associate professor of English at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina. Her work has appeared in Rhetoric Review, JAC, and College English, and in a number of rhetoric anthologies, including African American Rhetoric(s), and Silence and Listening as Rhetorical Arts.

Krista Ratciffe is a professor and chair of English at Arizona State University. The author of Anglo-American Feminist Challenges to the Rhetorical Traditions: Virginia Woolf, Mary Daly, and Adrienne Rich and co-editor of Rhetorics of Whiteness and Silence and Listening as Rhetorical Arts, she has written numerous articles and chapters on feminism and rhetoric . Rhetorical Listening won three outstanding book awards from CCCC, RSA, and JAC.

Hui Wu is a professor of English and the chair of the Department of Literature and Languages at the University of Texas at Tyler, and the Distinguished Guest Professor of English at Shanghai Lixin University of Commerce, China. She is the editor and translator of Once Iron Girls: Essays on Gender by Post-Mao Chinese Literary Women. Her translation into Chinese of C. Jan Swearingen's Rhetoric and Irony: Western Literacy and Western Lies was published in 2004.