Acknowledgements
I want to thank Kundai Chirindo and the 2018 Public Address Conference organizers Phaedra Pezzullo and Lisa Flores for giving me a space to work through these ideas first. The biggest thanks goes to Yaejoon Kwon for her insightful reads and feedback.
ORCID
Vincent N. Pham http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6572-3718
Notes
1 Suey Park and Eunsong Kim, “Hashtags as Decolonial Projects with Radical Origins,” Model View Culture: A Magazine About Technology, Culture and Diversity, March 17, 2014: para. 2.
2 Lisa A. Flores, “Between Abundance and Marginalization: The Imperative of Racial Rhetorical Criticism,” Review of Communication 16, no. 1 (2016): 4–24.
3 Flores, 17–18.
4 R.W. Connell, Masculinities, 2nd ed. (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2005).
5 Paula Ioanide, The Emotional Politics of Racism: How Feelings Trump Facts in an Era of Colorblindness (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2015).
6 Sara Ahmed, “Affective Economies,” Social Text 22, no. 2 (2004): 119.
7 Vincent N. Pham, “Our Foreign President Barack Obama: The Racial Logics of Birther Discourses,” Journal of International and Intercultural Communication 8, no. 2 (2015): 86–107.
8 Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People To Talk About Racism (Boston: Beacon Press, 2018).
9 Robert Mejia, Kay Beckermann, and Curtis Sullivan, “White Lies: A Racial History of the (Post)Truth,” Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies 15, no. 2 (2018): 113.
10 Cheryl I. Harris, “Whiteness as Property,” Harvard Law Review 106, no. 8 (1993): 1714.
11 Harris, 1721.
12 Asante – this forum.
13 Aileen Moreton-Robinson, The White Posessive: Prosperity, Power, and Indigenous Sovereignty (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015).
14 Harris, 1730.
15 Harris, 1766.
16 Carole Blair, Julie R. Brown, and Leslie Baxter, “Disciplining the Feminine,” Quarterly Journal of Speech 80, no. 4 (1994): 383–409.
17 Sara Baugh-Harris and Darrel Wanzer-Serrano, “Against Canon: Engaging the Imperative of Race in Rhetoric,” Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies 15, no. 4: 340.
18 Martin Law and Lisa M. Corrigan, “On White-Speak and Gatekeeping: Or, What Good are the Greeks?” Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies 15, no. 4: 326–30.
19 Flores, 16.
20 Baugh-Harris and Wanzer Serrano, 341.
21 LuMing Mao, Reading Chinese Fortune Cookie: The Making of Chinese American Rhetoric (Logan, UT: Utah State University, 2006).
22 Tiara Na’puti – this forum.
23 I approach this question through a study of transnational Asian American rhetoric in an article for Enculturation. See here: Vincent Pham, “The Exiled Speak Back: Asian American Diasporic Rhetorical Reconfigurations of Citizenship and Belonging in the White House ‘What’s Your Story’ Video Challenge,” Enculturation (December 2018). http://enculturation.net/exiled-speak-back
24 Moon-Kie Jung and Yaejoon Kwon, “Theorizing the U.S. Racial State: Sociology Since Racial Formation,” Sociology Compass 7, no. 11 (2013): 927–40.
25 Michelle A. Holling, “Centralizing Marginality, Marginalizing the Center in the WSCA 2018 Presidential Address,” Western Journal of Communication 0, no. 0 (2018): 1–8.