{"product_id":"rupturing-rhetoric-the-politics-of-race-and-popular-culture-since-ferguson-paperback-softback-9781496852328","title":"Rupturing Rhetoric; The Politics of Race and Popular Culture Since Ferguson (Paperback \/ softback) 9781496852328","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eRupturing Rhetoric\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Politics of Race and Popular Culture Since Ferguson\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eByron B Craig (Edited by), Patricia G. Davis (Edited by), Stephen E. Rahko (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781496852328\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 20 June 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e277 pages, 15 b\u0026amp;w illustrations\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2 cm, 0.453 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis book helps make sense of the last half-decade plus in US politics and culture, filling out what ‘postrace’ means in the post-Ferguson environment and how culture is grappling with it. - Paul Elliot Johnson, author of \u003ci\u003eI the People: The Rhetoric of Conservative Populism in the United States\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eRupturing Rhetoric \u003c\/i\u003ejoins important ongoing scholarly dialogues and moves us toward clear-headed and sobering insights about the stakes of postrace at the present moment as well as for the future.\" - Roopali Mukherjee, coeditor of \u003ci\u003eRacism Postrace\u003c\/i\u003e and professor of race, media, and communication at UMass Amherst\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eContributions by Maksim Bugrov, Byron B Craig, Patricia G. Davis, Peter Ehrenhaus, Whitney Gent, Christopher Gilbert, Oscar Giner, J. Scott Jordan, Euni Kim, Melanie Loehwing, Jaclyn S. Olson, A. Susan Owen, Stephen E. Rahko, Nick J. Sciullo, Arthur D. Soto-Vásquez, and Erika M. Thomas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe events surrounding the 2014 killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, marked a watershed moment in US history. Though this instance of police brutality represented only the latest amid decades of similar unjust patterns, it came to symbolize state complicity in the deployment of violence to maintain racial order. \u003ci\u003eRupturing Rhetoric: The Politics of Race and Popular Culture since Ferguson\u003c\/i\u003e responds to the racial rhetoric of American popular culture in the years since Brown's death. Through close readings of popular media produced during the late Obama and Trump eras, this volume details the influence of historical and contemporary representations of race on public discourse in America.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUsing Brown’s death and the ensuing protests as a focal point, contributors argue that Ferguson marks the rupture of America’s postracial fantasy. An ideology premised on colorblindness, the notion of the \"\"postracial\"\" suggests that the United States has largely achieved racial equality and that race is no longer a central organizing category in American society. Postracialism is partly responsible for ahistorical, romanticized narratives of slavery, Jim Crow segregation, and American exceptionalism. The legitimacy of this fantasy, the editors contend, was the first casualty of the tanks, tear gas, and rubber bullets wielded against protesters during the summer of 2014. From these protests emerged a new political narrative organized around #BlackLivesMatter, which directly challenged the fantasy of a postracial American society.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEssays in \u003ci\u003eRupturing Rhetoric\u003c\/i\u003e cover such texts as \u003ci\u003eFresh Off the Boat\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eHamilton\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eGreen Book\u003c\/i\u003e; NPR’s \u003ci\u003eAmerican Anthem\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eLovecraft Country\u003c\/i\u003e; Disney remakes of \u003ci\u003eDumbo\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Lion King\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eLady and the Tramp\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eBlacKkKlansman\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eCrazy Rich Asians\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Hateful Eight\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eFences\u003c\/i\u003e. As a unified body of work, the collection interrogates the ways contemporary media in American popular culture respond to and subvert the postracial fantasy underlying the politics of our time.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University Press of Mississippi","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52607716589848,"sku":"9781496852328","price":21.56,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/rupturing-rhetoric-the-politics-of-race-and-popular-culture-since-ferguson-paperback-softback-9781496852328","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}