Racial Rhetorical Criticism

(under construction in 2022-23)

Additional Readings

• Bonilla-Silva, Racism without Racists
• Brock, Distributed Blackness
• Browne, Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness
• Christian, The Race for Theory
• Collins, Black Feminist Thought
• Cooper, “Intersectionality” Oxford Resource Encyclopedia Entry
• Corrigan, Prison Power and Black Feelings*
• Crenshaw, “Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex”
• Edsheim, The Race of Sound
• Flores, “Towards an Insistent and Transformative Racial Rhetorical Criticism”
• Fricker, Epistemic Injustice
• Hall, “What is the Black in Black Popular Culture”
• Hoberman, Black and Blue: the Origins or Medical Racism
• Hogarth, Medicalizing Blackness
• hooks, Feminist Theory
• Lopez, Dog Whistle Politics
• Nakamura, Digitizing Race
• Nakayama & Krizek, “Whiteness: A Strategic Rhetoric”
• Noble, Algorithms of Oppression
• Ore, Lynching: Violence, Rhetoric, and American Identity
• Kendi, How to be an Anti-Racist and Stamped from the Beginning
• Mbembe, Necropolitics
• Metzl, The Protest Psychosis
• Rothstein, The Color of Law (selections)
• Sexton, Amalgamation Schemes
• Stoever, The Sonic Color Line
• Squires, The Post-Racial Mystique* and “Rethinking the Black Public Sphere”
• Schrag, Ontological Terror
• Vats, The Color of Creatorship*
• Washington, Medical Apartheid
• Wehiliye, Habeus Viscus
• Wilderson, Afropessimism and Incognegro
• Watts, “Critical Cosmopolitanism, Antagonism, and Social Suffering”*
• Watts, Hearing the Hurt*Wilson, The Reconstruction Desegregation Debate*