Authenticating Whiteness
Karens, Selfies, and Pop Stars
A critical examination of authenticity as a strategy of whiteness in popular media
Black Bodies in the River
Searching for Freedom Summer
A rhetorical interrogation of the pervasive claim that unidentified Black bodies were discovered during investigations into one of Freedom Summer’s most widely known events
Fear, Hate, and Victimhood
How George Wallace Wrote the Donald Trump Playbook
A blistering critique of the rhetoric of two candidates and how President Trump succeeded
Curious about George
Curious George, Cultural Icons, Colonialism, and US Exceptionalism
The first book-length study of one of literature’s most valuable, ubiquitous children’s characters
Reconstructing Southern Rhetoric
A collection of new essays that redefine and restructure how communication scholars study the South
Rebirthing a Nation
White Women, Identity Politics, and the Internet
A timely exploration of the role white women play in supporting systems of racism
Racial Terrorism
A Rhetorical Investigation of Lynching
How the Equal Justice Initiative, the Legacy Museum, and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice confront racial violence in America
No Future in This Country
The Prophetic Pessimism of Bishop Henry McNeal Turner
A critical study of the career of the nineteenth-century bishop
Black Feelings
Race and Affect in the Long Sixties
How the black liberation movement confronted ideologies of progress and equality through emotional discourse
The Bad Sixties
Hollywood Memories of the Counterculture, Antiwar, and Black Power Movements
An exposure of how mainstream film and television wilts flower power and diffuses the potency of protest