The imperative of race for rhetorical studies: toward divesting from disciplinary and institutionalized whiteness

"The imperative of race for rhetorical studies: toward divesting from disciplinary and institutionalized whiteness." Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, 15(4), pp. 292–299

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1 Online Etymology Dictionary, “Outrageous,” https://www.etymonline.com/word/outrageous (accessed October 7, 2018).

2 Lisa A. Flores, “Between Abundance and Marginalization: The Imperative of Racial Rhetorical Criticism,” Review of Communication 16, no. 1 (2016): 6.

3 Flores, “Between Abundance,” 5–6.

4 Paula Chakravartty et al., “#CommunicatioSoWhite,” Journal of Communication 68, no. 2 (2018): 259.

5 Chakravartty et al., #CommunicatioSoWhite, 260–61.

6 Charles W. Mills, Black Rights / White Wrongs: The Critique of Racial Liberalism (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017), 181.

7 WOC Faculty, “A Collective Response to ‘Racism in Academia,’” Medium, May 8, 2018, https://medium.com/@wocfaculty/a-collective-response-to-racism-in-academia-35dc725415c1 (accessed September 22, 2018); Sara Ahmed, On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012); Colleen Flaherty, “Separate and Not Equal,” Inside Higher Ed., November 9, 2016, https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/11/29/book-argues-faculty-members-color-going-tenure-are-judged-different-standard-white (accessed September 22, 2018); Deborah Hill, “Eduardo Bonilla-Silva: The Strange Career of a Race Scholar,” Duke Today, May 8, 2018, https://today.duke.edu/2018/05/eduardo-bonilla-silva-strange-career-race-scholar (accessed September 22, 2018); Larissa Mercado-Lopez, “Want to Support Faculty of Color? Support them as Faculty of Color,” Medium, May 18, 2018, https://medium.com/national-center-for-institutional-diversity/want-to-retain-faculty-of-color-support-them-as-faculty-of-color-9e7154ed618f (accessed September 22, 2018); Patricia A. Matthew, “What is Faculty Diversity Worth to a University?,” November 23, 2016, https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2016/11/what-is-faculty-diversity-worth-to-a-university/508334/ (accessed September 22, 2018); Mignon R. Moore, “Women of Color in the Academy: Navigating Multiple Intersections and Multiple Hierarchies,” Social Problems, 64, no. 2 (2017): 200–205; Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs, Yolanda Flores Niemann, Carmen G. González, and Angela P. Harris, eds. Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia (Boulder, CO: University Press of Colorado, 2012); Victor Ray, “The Unbearable Whiteness of Mesearch,” Inside Higher Ed, 21 October 21, 2016, https://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2016/10/21/me-studies-are-not-just-conducted-people-color-essay (accessed September 22, 2018); Leland Ware, “People of Color in the Academy: Patterns of Discrimination in Faculty Hiring and Retention,” Boston College Third World Law Journal 20, no. 6 (2000), http://lawdigitalcommons.bc.edu/twlj/vol20/iss1/6. Too many others.

8 George Lipsitz, The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics, Revised and Expanded Edition (Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2006).

9 Flores, “Between Abundance.”

10 Tim Wise, “A Look at the Myth of Reverse Racism,” Race and History, June 24, 2002, http://www.raceandhistory.com/selfnews/viewnews.cgi?newsid1024893033,80611,.shtml (accessed September 22, 2018).

11 Antonio Gramsci, “The indifferent,” La Città Futura, trans. Giovani Tiso (February 1917), https://overland.org.au/2013/03/i-hate-the-indifferent/.

12 Tukufu Zuberi and Eduardo Bonilla-Silva. White Logics, White Methods: Racism and Methodology (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2008).

13 Mills, Black Rights, 181–200.

14 Christina Sharpe, In the Wake: On Blackness and Being (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2016), 13.

15 Dreama G. Moon and Michelle A. Holling, “A Politic of Disruption: Race(ing) Intercultural Communication,” Journal of International and Intercultural Communication 8, no. 1 (2015): 1–6.

16 Kimberlé Crenshaw, “Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics,” University of Chicago Legal Forum 1, no. 8 (1989): 140.

17 Ann Laura Stoler, Duress: Imperial Durabilities in Our Times (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2016), 11–18.

18 Chela Sandoval, Methodology of the Oppressed (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2000), 70.

19 Karma R. Chávez, “Beyond Inclusion: Rethinking Rhetoric’s Historical Narrative,” Quarterly Journal of Speech 101 (2015): 163.

20 Raka Shome. “Gender, Nationalism, and the Swachh Bharat (Clean India) Movement” (Q&A response from keynote address at the 2nd International Rhetoric Workshop, Ghent, Belgium, July 4, 2018); See also Raka Shome, “Postcolonial Interventions in the Rhetorical Canon: An ‘Other’ View,” Communication Theory 6, no.1 (1996): 40–59.

21 Kirt H. Wilson, “The National and Cosmopolitan Dimensions of Disciplinary: Reconsidering the Origins of Communication Studies,” Quarterly Journal of Speech 101, no. 1 (2015): 255.

22 Oxford Dictionaries, “Definition of ‘Divest,’” http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/divest (accessed October 7, 2018).

23 Meghan A. Burke, “Racing Left and Right: Color-Blind Racism’s Dominance across the US Political Spectrum,” The Sociological Quarterly, 58 no. 2 (2017): 278.

24 Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Racism without Racists: Colorblind Racism and the Persistence of Inequality in America, 4th ed. (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, INC., 2014).

25 Himani Bannerji, “Building ‘Race’ into Sexual Assault,” in Thinking Through: Essays on Feminism, Marxism, and Anti-Racism, ed. Himani Bannerji (Toronto: Women’s Press, 1995), 45.

26 Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2018), 5. Original emphasis.

27 David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on Racial Neoliberalism (Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2006); Nikhil Paul Singh, Black is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004).

28 Jonathan Zimmerman, “Who Benefits from Affirmative Action: White Men,” Washington Post, August 11, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/who-benefits-from-affirmative-action-white-men/2017/08/11/4b56907e-7eab-11e7-a669-b400c5c7e1cc_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.ddeb69c5503c (accessed September 22, 2018).

29 Michael Omi and Howard Winant, Racial Formations in the United States, 3rd ed. (New York: Routledge, 2014). See Rona Tamiko Halualani, “Abstracting and De-Racializing Diversity: The Articulation of Diversity in the Post-Race Era,” in Critical Rhetorics of Race, eds. Michael G. Lacy and Kent Ono (New York: New York University Press, 2011), 247–64. See also Goldberg, The Threat, 15–18.

30 Sara Ahmed, “Declarations of Whiteness: The Non-Performativity of Anti-Racism,” Borderlands 3, no. 2 (2004): 52, http://www.borderlands.net.au/vol3no2_2004/ahmed_declarations.htm

31 Matthew Houdek, “Racial Sedimentation and the Common Sense of Racialized Violence: The Case of Black Church Burnings,” Quarterly Journal of Speech 104, no. 3 (2018): 293.

32 Colpean and Dingo, this forum.

33 Nina M. Lozano-Reich and Dana L. Cloud, “The Uncivil Tongue: Invitational Rhetoric and the Problem of Inequality,” Western Journal of Communication 73, no. 2 (2009): 220–26.

34 Chakravartty et al., “#CommunicationSoWhite.”

35 Raymie E. McKerrow, “Critical Rhetoric: Theory and Practice,” Communication Monographs 56, no. 2 (1989): 107.

36 Flores, this forum.

37 Cherríe Moraga, “Entering the Lives of Others: Theory in the Flesh,” in This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, eds. Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldua (San Francisco: Aunt Lute Press, 1981), 23.