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Rhetorics of Whiteness : Postracial Hauntings in Popular Culture, Social Media, and Education / edited by Tammie M. Kennedy, Joyce Irene Middleton, Krista Ratcliffe ; with a foreword by Lilia D. Monzó and Peter McLaren.

Other author/creatorKennedy, Tammie M., editor.
Other author/creatorMiddleton, Joyce Irene, editor.
Other author/creatorRatcliffe, Krista, 1958- editor.
Format Book and Print
Publication Info Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2017]
Descriptionxvii, 338 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subject(s)
Contents Foreword: Unleashed-Whiteness as Predatory Culture -- Introduction: Oxymoronic Whiteness-from the White House to Ferguson -- Part One. Hauntings in Popular Culture; Reflection -- "Postracial" / Annette Harris Powell 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 / Krisi McDuffie -- Part Two. Hauntings in Social Media; Reflection -- Before #BlackLivesMatter / Catherinee Prendergast -- 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 -- Facebook and Absent-Present Rhetorics of Whiteness / Jennifer Beech -- Part Three. Hauntings in Education; Reflections. A Dwindling Focus on Whiteness / Jennifer Seibel Trainor -- Administering Whiteness Studies / Amy Goodburn -- 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 -- Part Four. Hauntings in Pedagogies; Reflection. Black, White, and Colors in Between-Whiteness Haunting Feminist Studies / Hui Wu -- 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 -- Part Five. Problems Haunting Theories of Whiteness; Reflections. -- Calling a White a White / Victor Villanueva -- Calling Whiteness Studies . . . / Sharon Crowley -- 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; Epilogue / Ronald A. Kuykendall.
Scope and content "Contributors analyze how whiteness haunts popular culture, social media, education, and pedagogy, as well as theories of race themselves"--Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2016022984
ISBN9780809335466 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0809335468 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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