With the election of our first black president; many Americans began to argue that we had finally ended racism; claiming that we now live in a postracial era. Yet near-daily news reports regularly invoke white as a demographic category and recount instances of racialized violence as well as an increased sensitivity to expressions of racial unrest. Clearly; American society isn’t as color-blind as people would like to believe. In Rhetorics of Whiteness: Postracial Hauntings in Popular Culture; Social Media; and Education; contributors reveal how identifications with racialized whiteness continue to manifest themselves in American culture. The sixteen essays that comprise this collection not only render visible how racialized whiteness infiltrates new twenty-first-century discourses and material spaces but also offer critical tactics for disrupting this normative whiteness. Specifically; contributors examine popular culture (novels; films; TV); social media (YouTube; eHarmony; Facebook); education (state law; the textbook industry; dual credit programs); pedagogy (tactics for teaching via narratives; emotional literacy; and mindfulness) as well as cultural theories (concepts of racialized space; anti-dialogicism; and color blindness). Offering new approaches to understanding racialized whiteness; this volume emphasizes the importance of a rhetorical lens for employing whiteness studies’ theories and methods to identify; analyze; interpret; and interrupt representations of whiteness. Although whiteness studies has been waning as an active research field for the past decade; the contributors to Rhetorics of Whiteness assert that it hasn’t lost its relevancy because racialized whiteness and issues of systemic racism persist in American society and culture today. Few whiteness studies texts have been published in rhetoric and composition in the past decade; so this collection should quickly become mandatory reading. By focusing on common; yet often overlooked; contemporary examples of how racialized whiteness haunts U.S. society; Rhetorics of Whiteness serves as a valuable text for scholars in the field as well as anyone else interested in the topic.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Alas; you want Hay to give you moreBy Ben UzielJohn Hay's diary during the Lincoln presidency is a precious first person account of a giant in history and arguably America's greatest president. This edition includes all the marked out paragraphs and is an accessible read. The diary is not an in depth account of his time in the whitehouse; but it does provide some great anecdotes. The disappointment here is that you want more. More entries; more details and more anecdotes on "the tycoon." Regardless; as a a deep Lincoln admirer; you take what you can get when it comes to getting more of the Lincoln years.4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Great insight on LincolnBy barbara hudsonJohn Hay is one of our history's overlooked heroes. Besides serving as Lincoln's secretary during the Civil Was ; he went on to become Secretary of State under Presidents McKinley and Roosevelt. The diary highlights the close relationship between Lincoln and Hay and lays the groundwork for Hays future work.2 of 4 people found the following review helpful. DisappointingBy Dr. Emily KurtzThis book really centers on day-to-day minutiae without giving you all that much on Lincoln. So I ordered the Letters of Nicolay; as I think that book features more of what I am looking for. In this one there are great gaps in the writing where important battles should be--because Hay was too busy to write at those times. Bummer! The Nicolay memoirs I suspect will contain more personal impressions; too.
