The Body of Race: Toward a Rhetorical Understanding of Racial Ideology

An (in)visible universe of grief: Performative disidentifications with white motherhood in the We are not Trayvon Martin blog

“…Performativity refers to an everyday, on-going process of subject formation where individuals are interpellated discursively into subject positions (e.g., womanhood, whiteness) and are then compelled to continuously (re)cite the norms of those subjectivities to maintain social intelligibility (Butler, 1993). As Ehlers (2012) and Happe (2013) have demonstrated, performativity helps explain how individuals become racialized subjects through discursive processes of interpellation into and (re)citation of racialized norms and expectations. Importantly, these processes are neither ahistorical nor a-material-performativity illuminates links between discourse and materiality by demonstrating how individuals come to identify and be identified as (gendered, racialized, etc.)…”

Between abundance and marginalization: the imperative of racial rhetorical criticism

“…To answer th[ese] question[s], we need an account of the rhetoric of race-specifically, how, over time, race has become a taken-for-granted human condition. 21 And this is the work that racial rhetorical criticism has and must continue to do. In our efforts to do this work, the vibrant body of racial rhetorical criticism that already exists, as well as the significant interventions and lessons this work make possible, can guide us.…”

Black Panther and the Alt-right: networks of racial ideology

“…Racist ideologies require constant negotiation and replication of the structures supporting their existence (Happe, 2013). Black Panther presents another opportunity for the Alt-right to seize the affordances of network culture to spread its message.…”