Tammie M. Kennedy Joyce Irene Middleton Krista Ratcliffe
With the election of our first black president, many Americans began to argue that we had finally ended racism, claiming that we now live in a postracial era. Yet near-daily news reports regularly invoke white as a demographic category and recount instances of racialized violence as well as an increased sensitivity to expressions of racial unrest. Clearly, American society isn't as color-blind as people would like to believe. In Rhetorics of Whiteness: Postracial Hauntings in Popular Culture, Social Media, and Education, contributors reveal how identifications with racialized...
With the election of our first black president, many Americans began to argue that we had finally ended racism, claiming that we now live in a postrac...