Interrogating the Communicative Power of Whiteness

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The field of communication offers the study of whiteness a focus on discourse which directs its attention to the everyday experiences of whiteness through regimes of truth, embodied acts, and the deconstruction of mediated texts. This book takes an intersectional approach to whiteness studies, researching whiteness through rhetorical analysis, qualitative research, performance studies, and interpretive research. More specifically the chapters deconstruct the communicative power of whiteness in the context of the United States, but with discussion of the implications of this power internationally, by taking on relevant and current topics such as terrorism, post-colonial challenges, white fragility at the national level, the emergence of colorblind discourse as a pro-white discursive strategy, the relationship of people of color with and through whiteness, as well as multifaceted identities that intersect with whiteness, including religion, masculinity and femininity, social class, ability, and sexuality. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Contents Foreword: Troubling Whiteness and Its Neoliberalist Impulse Acknowledgments 1 Introduction: Introducing Twenty-first Century Whiteness or “Everything Old Is New Again” PART I: Intersectional Readings of Whiteness through Bodies of Color 2 Asian American Performance in White Supremacist Representation 3 Queerness as Strategic Whiteness: A Queer Asian American Critique of Peter Le 4 Reverberations of Familial and Cultural Histories: Performances with and against Whiteness PART II: Intersectional Readings of Whiteness through White Bodies 5 Black Women’s Intellectualism and Deconstructing Donald Trump’s Toxic White Masculinity 6 From White Ladies to White Trash Mamas: (Re)Locating the Performances of White Femininity 7 Digging In: White Trash, Trailer Trash, and the (Im)Mobility of Whiteness 8 A Forgotten History of Eugenics: Reimagining Whiteness and Disability in the Case of Carrie Buck PART III: Intersectional Readings of Whiteness through Discursive Strategies 9 Monstrous Authenticity: Trump’s Whiteness 10 Triumphal Whiteness and the Coloring of Terror in Twenty-first Century Counterterrorist Rhetorics 11 Nightmares of Whiteness: Dreams and Deportability in the Age of Trump 12 “The Colonial Jesus”: Deconstructing White Christianity List of Contributors Index