By Michael G. Lacy
ISBN-10: 0814762220
ISBN-13: 9780814762226
ISBN-10: 0814762239
ISBN-13: 9780814762233
According to many pundits and cultural commentators, the U.S. is having fun with a post-racial age, thank you partly to Barack Obama's upward thrust to the presidency. This excessive gloss of optimism fails, despite the fact that, to acknowledge that racism is still ever current and alive, unfold through channels of media and circulated even in colloquial speech in ways in which may be tricky to analyze.
In this groundbreaking assortment edited by means of Michael G. Lacy and Kent A. Ono, students search to envision this advanced and contradictory terrain whereas relocating the sphere of conversation in a extra intellectually efficient course. a great crew of members from a number of educational backgrounds demanding situations conventional definitions and functions of rhetoric. From the troubling media representations of black looters after storm Katrina and rhetoric in information insurance in regards to the Columbine and Virginia Tech massacres to cinematic representations of race in Crash, Blood Diamond, and Quentin Tarantino's movies, those essays display advanced intersections and structures of racialized our bodies and discourses, critiquing race in leading edge and interesting methods. Critical Rhetorics of Race seeks not just to appreciate and navigate a global fraught with racism, yet to alter it, one note at a time.
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