Truth be told : white nostalgia and antiracist Queer resistance in "post-truth" America / Laura Elliot Tetreault.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tetreault, Laura, author.

Series:

Intersectional rhetorics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Disinformation--Political aspects--United States.

Disinformation.

Truthfulness and falsehood--Political aspects--United States--History--21st century.

Truthfulness and falsehood.

Racial justice--United States.

Racial justice.

Social media--Political aspects--United States.

Social media.

Digital media--Political aspects--United States.

Digital media.

Physical Description:

169 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2025]

Summary:

"In Truth Be Told, Laura Elliot Tetreault challenges the idea that the "post-truth" present is a novel crisis brought about by contemporary right-wing and digital media. Instead, the political control of "truth" has always been central to intersecting systems of oppression including white supremacy, colonialism, capitalism, and heteropatriarchy. Arguing that liberal counter-disinformation strategies based in a racialized ideal of civility are insufficient, the book advocates for centering the lived knowledge of oppressed communities to develop resistance and survival strategies for a disinformation environment. Taking a critical disinformation studies approach, Tetreault analyzes post-truth political messaging in the US after 2016. Using racial rhetorical criticism combined with a queer lens, they focus on how contemporary antiracist, queer, and feminist activists used various forms of cultural production to work against disinformation and its circulation, enacting refusal and insisting on the validity of their own knowledges as a form of community care. Tetreault ultimately argues that it's not just the truth that academics must advocate for; they must question whose truth and how that truth is mediated and circulated" --Back cover.

"Analyzes the political rhetoric of the US right and mainstream left from the 2010s to 2020s, arguing for a reconceptualization of the 'post-truth' narrative and highlighting strategies used by oppressed communities to counter disinformation"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Black Lives Matter, violent imaginaries, and narrative activism

Activist relational knowledge against digital disinformation in Black Lives Matter and the Women's March

Charlottesville's false equivalencies : rejecting "both sides" by refusing to waste time

Whose insurrection? Rhetorical gaslighting after January 6 and the uses and limits of testimonial acts

Anti-trans disinformation and t4t care through joy and spite.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-161) and index.

ISBN:

9780814215968

0814215963

9780814259580

0814259588

OCLC:

1515160634