Contemporary scholarship on race from critical rhetorical perspectives has revealed the dominance... more Contemporary scholarship on race from critical rhetorical perspectives has revealed the dominance of a colorblind racial ideology and its accompanying norms of race-evasive discourse in the post-1960's United States. In the "Age of Trumpism," however, there has been a marked resurgence of explicitly pro-white rhetoric and a rise in public displays of various formations of white supremacy, including the emergence of a loose group of disgruntled pro-white, far-right reactionaries who have strategically adopted the label of "alt-right." To help make sense of articulations among "alt-right," far-right, and pro-white ideologies in the Trump-era, this essay investigates the emergence and early evolution of the "alt-right" to reveal how appeals to intellectualism and political correctness have been deployed to make space for overtly pro-white rhetoric in mainstream U.S. American public discourse. Along the way, I reveal (dis)connections among contemporary formations of pro-white ideologies to illuminate strategic constructions of rhetorical distance between these formations and white supremacy. Ultimately, I argue that "alt-right" rhetoric is positioned as a rhetorical bridge between white nationalism and mainstream public discourse.
This essay offers a critical rhetorical analysis of social media discourse of white mothers prote... more This essay offers a critical rhetorical analysis of social media discourse of white mothers protesting the acquittal of Trayvon Martin’s killer. I argue that through affectively charged performative disidentifications, white mothers contributing to the We are not Trayvon Martin blog worked within and against norms of ideal motherhood to challenge dominant formations of whiteness in ways that exposed the privileged status of U.S. American white motherhood and reconceptualized motherhood as an affective orientation toward antiracism. Unpacking affectively charged performative disidentifications with privileged racial identities is important for enhancing understandings of white antiracist rhetoric and fostering formations of white antiracist consciousness.
A bibliographic essay on Merton's life and his work in media/communication theory and research as... more A bibliographic essay on Merton's life and his work in media/communication theory and research as well as commentaries and uptakes of it.
Contemporary scholarship on race from critical rhetorical perspectives has revealed the dominance... more Contemporary scholarship on race from critical rhetorical perspectives has revealed the dominance of a colorblind racial ideology and its accompanying norms of race-evasive discourse in the post-1960's United States. In the "Age of Trumpism," however, there has been a marked resurgence of explicitly pro-white rhetoric and a rise in public displays of various formations of white supremacy, including the emergence of a loose group of disgruntled pro-white, far-right reactionaries who have strategically adopted the label of "alt-right." To help make sense of articulations among "alt-right," far-right, and pro-white ideologies in the Trump-era, this essay investigates the emergence and early evolution of the "alt-right" to reveal how appeals to intellectualism and political correctness have been deployed to make space for overtly pro-white rhetoric in mainstream U.S. American public discourse. Along the way, I reveal (dis)connections among contemporary formations of pro-white ideologies to illuminate strategic constructions of rhetorical distance between these formations and white supremacy. Ultimately, I argue that "alt-right" rhetoric is positioned as a rhetorical bridge between white nationalism and mainstream public discourse.
This essay offers a critical rhetorical analysis of social media discourse of white mothers prote... more This essay offers a critical rhetorical analysis of social media discourse of white mothers protesting the acquittal of Trayvon Martin’s killer. I argue that through affectively charged performative disidentifications, white mothers contributing to the We are not Trayvon Martin blog worked within and against norms of ideal motherhood to challenge dominant formations of whiteness in ways that exposed the privileged status of U.S. American white motherhood and reconceptualized motherhood as an affective orientation toward antiracism. Unpacking affectively charged performative disidentifications with privileged racial identities is important for enhancing understandings of white antiracist rhetoric and fostering formations of white antiracist consciousness.
A bibliographic essay on Merton's life and his work in media/communication theory and research as... more A bibliographic essay on Merton's life and his work in media/communication theory and research as well as commentaries and uptakes of it.
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