Critical Rhetorics of Race / / Kent A. Ono; Michael G. Lacy.
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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press,, [2011] ©2011 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Critical cultural communication.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (325 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Front matter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword
- Introduction
- 1. Apocalypse
- 2. Tales of Tragedy
- 3. N-word vs. F-word, Black vs. Gay
- 4. Quentin Tarantino in Black and White
- 5. Patrolling National Identity, Masking White Supremacy
- 6. Control, Discipline, and Punish
- 7. Declarations of Independence
- 8. Transgressive Rhetoric in Deliberative Democracy
- 9. Bling Fling
- 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