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Symposium

Rhetoric, Race, and Resentment: Whiteness and the New Days of Rage

Meta G. Carstarphen
,
Kathleen E. Welch
,
Wendy K. Z. Anderson
,
Davis W. Houck
,
Mark L. McPhail
,
David A. Frank
,
Rachel C. Jackson
,
James Alexander McVey
,
Christopher J. Gilbert
,
Patricia G. Davis
&
Lisa M. Corrigan
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Pages 255-347 | Published online: 23 Aug 2017

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