Rupturing Rhetoric

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.

Acknowledgments Introduction: Taking Stock of the (Post)Racial Order of Things Byron B Craig, Patricia G. Davis, and Stephen E. Rahko Part 1: Symbolic Violence and Cultural Appropriation Chapter 1 Blackness as Spectral Presence: Postracial Discourses in Fresh Off the Boat Patricia G. Davis Chapter 2 A Notebook for Hamilton Oscar Giner Part 2: The Identity Scripts of Whiteness Chapter 3 From Noose to "Nuse": The Green Book, "Woke" Whiteness, and the Postracial Buddy Film Stephen E. Rahko and Byron B Craig Chapter 4 "The Songs That Unite [Us]": White Liberalism and Postracial Promises in NPR's American Anthem Jaclyn S. Olson Chapter 5 Excavating the Ruins of Tulsa's Greenwood District: Lovecraft Country and the Epistemic Violence of Postracial Trauma Byron B Craig, Stephen E. Rahko, and J. Scott Jordan Part 3: Postrace Rereleased Chapter 6 Making America Bamboozled Again Christopher Gilbert Chapter 7 The Postracial Fantasyland of Live-Action Disney Remakes Arthur D. Soto-Vasquez Part 4: Crafting Memory in the Postrace Era Chapter 8 Strategies of Memory Construction in Spike Lee's BlacKkKlansman A. Susan Owen and Peter Ehrenhaus Chapter 9 The Necropolitics of Memory: How Subjects (Don't) Matter in Crazy Rich Asians Discourse Euni Kim Chapter 10 The Hateful Eight as a Contemporary Allegory of Anti-Blackness and Postracial Rifts Erika M. Thomas and Maksim Bugrov Part 5: The Spatial and Social Class Dynamics of Postrace Chapter 11 Police Brutality without Race: The Postracial Enthymeme's Portrayal of Collective Organizing in The Public Whitney Gent and Melanie Loehwing Chapter 12 Pittsburgh's Postracial Hill District? Mediated Challenges to Governmental Discourses about the Hill District in Fences and Steve Mellon's "A Life on the Hill" Nick J. Sciullo About the Contributors Index

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