Critical Rhetorics of Race / / Kent A. Ono; ed. by Michael G. Lacy.

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• VerfasserIn: Ono, Kent A.,
• MitwirkendeR: Anderson, Carol W.,; Calafell, Bernadette Marie,; Griffin, Rachel Alicia,; Halualani, Rona Tamiko,; Hasian, Marouf,; Haspel, Kathleen C.,; Holling, Michelle A.,; Huspek, Michael,; Jackson, Ronald L.,; Lacy, Michael G.,; Malhotra, Sheena,; McKerrow, Raymie E.,; Moshin, Jamie,; Mukherjee, Roopali,; Ono, Kent A.,; Pérez, Kimberlee,; Rowe, Aimee Carrillo,; Squireso, Catherine R.,; Tierney, Sean,; Willis-Chun, Cynthia,; Wood, Rulon,
• HerausgeberIn: Lacy, Michael G.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Critical Cultural Communication ; 12
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

According to many pundits and cultural commentators, the U.S. is enjoying a post-racial age, thanks in part to Barack Obama's rise to the presidency. This high gloss of optimism fails, however, to recognize that racism remains ever present and alive, spread by channels of media and circulated e...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Foreword
• Introduction
• PART I : Racialized Masculinities
• 1. Apocalypse
• 2. Tales of Tragedy
• 3. N-word vs. F-word, Black vs. Gay
• PART II: Whiteness
• 4. Quentin Tarantino in Black and White
• 5. Patrolling National Identity, Masking White Supremacy
• 6. Control, Discipline, and Punish
• PART III: Vernacular Resistances
• 7. Declarations of Independence
• 8. Transgressive Rhetoric in Deliberative Democracy
• 9. Bling Fling
• PART IV: Racialized Complexities and Neocolonialism
• 10. The Rhythm of Ambition
• 11. Inscribing Racial Bodies and Relieving Responsibility
• 12. Cinematic Representation and Cultural Critique
• 13. Abstracting and De-Racializing Diversity
• Bibliography
• About the Contributors
• Index