Rhetorics of whiteness : postracial hauntings in popular culture, social media, and education / edited by Tammie M. Kennedy, Joyce Irene Middleton, and Krista Ratcliffe ; with a foreword by Lilia D. Monzo and Peter McLaren.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kennedy, Tammie M., editor.

Middleton, Joyce Irene, editor.

Ratcliffe, Krista, 1958- editor.

Monzó, Lilia D., 1967- writer of foreword.

McLaren, Peter, writer of foreword.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Racism in popular culture--United States.

Racism in popular culture.

Racism in mass media--United States.

Racism in mass media.

Social media--United States.

Social media.

Racism in education--United States.

Racism in education.

White people--Race identity--United States.

White people.

African Americans--Race identity.

African Americans.

Post-racialism--United States.

Post-racialism.

Rhetoric--Social aspects--United States.

Rhetoric.

Rhetoric--Political aspects--United States.

United States--Race relations.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (266 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Carbondale, [Illinois] : Southern Illinois University Press, 2017.

Summary:

"Contributors analyze how whiteness haunts popular culture, social media, education, and pedagogy, as well as theories of race themselves"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Contents

Foreword: Unleashed-Whiteness as Predatory Culture

Introduction: Oxymoronic Whiteness-from the White House to Ferguson

Part One. Hauntings in Popular Culture

Reflection

"Postracial"

1. Not Everybody's Protest Novel: White Fictions of Antiracism from Stowe to Stockett

2. The Help as Noncomplicit Identification and Nostalgic Revision

3. Must(n't) See TV: Hidden Whiteness in Representations of Women of Color

4. Color-Blind Rhetoric in Obama's 2008 "Race Speech": The Appeal to Whiteness and the Disciplining of Racial Rhetorical Studies

Part Two. Hauntings in Social Media

Before #BlackLivesMatter

5. Racialized Slacktivism: Social Media Performances of White Antiracism

6. The Ghost's in the Machine: eHarmony and the Reification of Whiteness and Heteronormativity

7. Facebook and Absent-Present Rhetorics of Whiteness

Part Three. Hauntings in Education

Reflections

A Dwindling Focus on Whiteness

Administering Whiteness Studies

8. Washing Education White: Arizona's HB 2281 and the Curricular Investment in Whiteness

9. How Whiteness Haunts the Textbook Industry: The Reception of Nonwhites in Composition Textbooks

10. The Triumph of Whiteness: Dual Credit Courses and Hierarchical Racism in Texas

Part Four. Hauntings in Pedagogies

Black, White, and Colors in Between-Whiteness Haunting Feminist Studies

11. On the Cover of the Rolling Stone: Deconstructing Monsters and Terrorism in an Era of Postracial Whiteness

12. The Pedagogical Role of a White Instructor's Racial Awareness Narrative

13. Practicing Mindfulness: A Pedagogical Tool for Spotlighting Whiteness

Part Five. Problems Haunting Theories of Whiteness

Calling a White a White

Calling Whiteness Studies . ..

14. Whiteness as Racialized Space: Obama and the Rhetorical Constraints of Phenotypical Blackness

15. Color Deafness: White Writing as Palimpsest for African American English in Breaking Bad Screen Captioning and Video Technologies

16. Whiteness as Antidialogical

Epilogue

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.