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Rhetoric, race, religion, and the Charleston shootings : was blind but now I see / edited by Sean Patrick O'Rourke and Melody Lehn.
Van Pelt Library HV6773.54 .R54 2020
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Rhetoric, race, and religion
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mass shootings--South Carolina--Charleston--History--21st century--Case studies.
- Mass shootings.
- Hate crimes--South Carolina--Charleston--History--21st century.
- Hate crimes.
- Mass shootings--Social aspects--United States.
- Racism--South Carolina--Charleston--History--21st century.
- Racism.
- African Americans--Crimes against--History--South Carolina--Charleston--21st century.
- African Americans.
- Criminal behavior--United States.
- Criminal behavior.
- Crime analysis.
- History.
- Social aspects.
- United States.
- Crime analysis--United States.
- African Americans--Crimes against.
- South Carolina--Charleston.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- x, 261 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : Lexington Books, 2020.
- Summary:
- This book considers the 2015 Charleston mass shooting from a rhetorical perspective and offers an appraisal of the discourses that cradled and emerged from it. It argues that Charleston was different from other mass shootings in America and that the differences can be heard and seen in that rhetoric.
- Contents:
- The Killer's Manifesto
- "The South Shall Rise Again"
- Charleston and the Postracial Logics of "Race War"
- Gun control
- The Racial Politics of Gun Violence
- The Charleston Church Shooting and the Public Practice of Forgetting Lynching
- Civic Eulogies and Exhortations
- The Act of Forgiveness in Barack Obama's Eulogy for the Honorable Reverend Clementa Pinckney, Charleston, South Carolina, June 26, 2015
- Challenging the Myth of Postracialism
- Rebels and Flags
- In the Aftermath
- The Rebel Flag and the Rhetoric of Protest
- Neo-Confederate Monuments
- "Remove Not the Ancient Landmarks"
- Conclusion.
- ISBN:
- 9781498550611
- 1498550614
- OCLC:
- 1120788550
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