Reading the signs: Performative white allyship

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Notes

1 Casey Ryan Kelly, “Donald J. Trump and the Rhetoric of Ressentiment,” Quarterly Journal of Speech 106, no. 1 (2020): 2–24.

2 See Jared Sexton, “Afro-Pessimism: The Unclear Word,” Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge 29 (2016): 1–21; Christina Sharpe, In the Wake: On Blackness and Being (Durham: Duke University Press, 2016); Hortense Spillers, “Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe: An American Grammar Book,” Diacritics 17, no. 2 (1987): 65–81; and Frank Wilderson III, Afropessimism (Liveright, 2020); among others.

3 Tamara K. Nopper, “Abolition is Not a Suburb,” The New Inquiry, July 16, 2020, https://thenewinquiry.com/abolition-is-not-a-suburb/.

4 Arabella Lyon, Deliberative Acts: Democracy, Rhetoric, and Rights (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2013), 59–60.

5 Birgit M. Kaiser and Kathrin Thiele, “‘What is Species Memory’ Or, Humanism, Memory and the Afterlives of ‘1492’,” Parallax 23, no. 4 (2017): 403–4.

6 Tiffany Lethabo King, Jenell Navarro, and Andrea Smith, eds. Otherwise Worlds: Against Settler Colonialism and Anti-Blackness (Durham: Duke UP, 2020), 1.

7 In this regard, my review might be read as a dialogue with rhetoric and communication scholars who contributed to the forum on #RhetoricSoWhite in the October 2019 issue of the Quarterly Journal of Speech, especially Asante, Na’Puti, and Pham.