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Rupturing rhetoric : the politics of race and popular culture since Ferguson / edited by Byron B Craig, Patricia G. Davis, and Stephen E. Rahko.

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"The events surrounding the 2014 killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, marked a watershed moment in US history. Though this instance of police brutality represented only the latest amid decades of similar unjust patterns, it came to symbolize state complicity in the deployment of viol...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Craig, Byron B (Editor), Davis, Patricia G. (Patricia Gail), 1970- (Editor), Rahko, Stephen E. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2024]
Series:Race, rhetoric, and media series.
Subjects:
Post-racialism > United States.
Racism > United States.
Minorities > United States.
Black lives matter movement.
United States > Race relations.
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Taking Stock of the (Post)Racial Order of Things
  • Part 1: Symbolic Violence and Cultural Appropriation
  • Chapter 1. Blackness as Spectral Presence: Postracial Discourses in Fresh Off the Boat
  • Chapter 2. A Notebook for Hamilton
  • Part 2: The Identity Scripts of Whiteness
  • Chapter 3. From Noose to "Nuse": Green Book, "Woke" Whiteness, and the Postracial Buddy Film
  • Chapter 4. "The Songs That Unite [Us]": White Liberalism and Postracial Promises in NPR's American Anthem
  • Chapter 5. Excavating the Ruins of Tulsa's Greenwood District: Lovecraft Country and the Epistemic Violence of Postracial Trauma
  • Part 3: Postrace Rereleased
  • Chapter 6. Making America Bamboozled Again
  • Chapter 7. The Postracial Fantasyland of Live-Action Disney Remakes
  • Part 4: Crafting Memory in the Postrace Era
  • Chapter 8. Strategies of Memory Construction in Spike Lee's BlacKkKlansman
  • Chapter 9. The Necropolitics of Memory: How Subjects (Don't) Matter in Crazy Rich Asians Discourse
  • Chapter 10. The Hateful Eight as a Contemporary Allegory of Anti-Blackness and Postracial Rifts
  • 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
  • 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
  • About the Contributors
  • Index

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