Byron B Craig is assistant professor in the School of Communication at Illinois State University. His work has been published in the edited volumes Beyonce in the World: Making Meaning with Queen Bey in Troubled Times and The Gig Economy: Workers and Media in the Age of Convergence, and has appeared in such publications as Cultural Studies Oaoe Critical Methodologies. Patricia G. Davis is associate professor of communication studies at Northeastern University. She is author of Laying Claim: African American Cultural Memory and Southern Identity. Stephen E. Rahko is assistant professor in the School of Communication at Illinois State University. His work has been published in the edited volumes Beyonce in the World: Making Meaning with Queen Bey in Troubled Times and The Gig Economy: Workers and Media in the Age of Convergence, and has appeared in such publications as Cultural Studies Oaoe Critical Methodologies.
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This book helps make sense of the last half-decade plus in US politics and culture, filling out what 'postrace' means in the post-Ferguson environment and how culture is grappling with it. - Paul Elliot Johnson, author of I the People: The Rhetoric of Conservative Populism in the United States "Rupturing Rhetoric joins important ongoing scholarly dialogues and moves us toward clear-headed and sobering insights about the stakes of postrace at the present moment as well as for the future." - Roopali Mukherjee, coeditor of Racism Postrace and professor of race, media, and communication at UMass Amherst