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Double Crossed - Black Female Intersectionality In Hollywood

by Frederick W. Gooding Jr.

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 Despite Hollywoodâ€™s recent efforts to appeal to more racially diverse audiences, mainstream movies routinely present a limited view of nonwhites generally, and Black women specifically, in stark contrast to white characters. In this book, author Frederick W. Gooding Jr. chronicles the Black female experience through the lens of Hollywood.
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Prophetic Peril - The Rhetoric Of Nineteenth-Century African American Prophetic-Call Narratives

by Thomas M. Fuerst

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 Prophecy reimagines the world. Focusing on the prophetic-call narratives of Maria Stewart, Nat Turner, Julia Foote, and Richard Allen, author Thomas M. Fuerst offers insight into the unique contributions this tradition makes to American oratory, storytelling, history, ethics, theology, and protest.
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Race And Radio - Pioneering Black Broadcasters In New Orleans

by Bala James Baptiste

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 Traces the history of the integration of radio broadcasting in New Orleans and tells the story of how African American on-air personalities transformed the medium. Analyzing a trove of primary data Bala James Baptiste constructs a formidable narrative of broadcast history, racism, and black experience in this influential radio market.
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Memory Work - White Ignorance And Black Resistance In Popular Magazines, 1900-1910

by Mary E. Triece

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 In the early twentieth century, white-controlled magazines and Black magazines told very different stories about the dynamics of race, sex, and power in the United States. This book examines how popular magazines employed rhetorical strategies to remember, forget, and frame Americaâ€™s racist past.
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Rupturing Rhetoric - The Politics Of Race And Popular Culture Since Ferguson

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 Examines the racial rhetoric of American popular culture in the years since Michael Brownâ€™s death in Ferguson, Missouri. 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.
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Superheroes In The Streets - Muslim Women Activists And Protest In The Digital Age

by Kimberly Wedeven Segall

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 Following the stories of US Muslim women activists, Kimberly Wedeven Segall shows how they have been reinventing the streets and remaking racialized codifications. Segall highlights their creativity in crafting protest media of posters, rap rally songs, and digital images of superheroes, carving public spaces into inclusive and digital territories.
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Summer Of 2020 - George Floyd And The Resurgence Of The Black Lives Matter Movement

by Amanda Nell Edgar e Andre E. Johnson

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 Spotlights the perspectives of individual participants who contributed to the Black Lives Matterâ€™s revived impact and global success throughout 2020. Andre Johnson and Amanda Nell Edgar interview the movementâ€™s activists to discover what Black Lives Matter meant to those who participated in one of Americaâ€™s largest social movements.
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Terror And Truth - Civil Rights Tourism And The Mississippi Movement

by Roger Davis Gatchet e Stephen A. King

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 Examines how Mississippi confronts its history of racial violence and injustice through civil rights tourism. The authors explore the museums, monuments, memorials, interpretive centers, homes, and historical markers marketed to heritage tourists in the state.
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Curt Flood In The Media - Baseball, Race, And The Demise Of The Activist-Athlete

by Abraham Iqbal Khan

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 Examines the public discourse surrounding Curt Flood, the star center fielder for the St. Louis Cardinals throughout the sixties. In 1969, Flood was traded to the Philadelphia Phillies. By examining the mainstream press, the black press, and primary sources, including Flood's autobiography, Khan exposes the complexities of what it means to be a prominent black American athlete - in 1969 and today.
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Rhetorical Road To Brown V. Board Of Education - Elizabeth And Waties Waring''S Campaign

by Wanda Little Fenimore

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 Using rich archival materials, Wanda Little Fenimore crafts an engaging narrative that illustrates the rhetorical context from which Brown v. Board of Education arose and dispels the notion that the decision was inevitable.
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Authenticating Whiteness - Karens, Selfies, And Pop Stars

by Rachel E. Dubrofsky

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 Explores the idea that popular media implicitly portrays whiteness as credible, trustworthy, familiar, and honest, and that this portrayal is normalized and ubiquitous. Whether on television, film, social media, or in the news, white people are constructed as believable and unrehearsed, from the way they talk to how they look and act.
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Behind The Rifle - Women Soldiers In Civil War Mississippi

by Shelby Harriel

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 A groundbreaking study that discusses women soldiers with a connection to Mississippi - either those who hailed from the Magnolia State or those from elsewhere who fought in Mississippi battles. Readers will learn who they were, why they chose to fight at a time when military service for women was banned, and the horrors they experienced.
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Authenticating Whiteness - Karens, Selfies, And Pop Stars

by Rachel E. Dubrofsky

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 Explores the idea that popular media implicitly portrays whiteness as credible, trustworthy, familiar, and honest, and that this portrayal is normalized and ubiquitous. Whether on television, film, social media, or in the news, white people are constructed as believable and unrehearsed, from the way they talk to how they look and act.
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Authenticating Whiteness - Karens, Selfies, And Pop Stars

by Rachel E. Dubrofsky

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 Explores the idea that popular media implicitly portrays whiteness as credible, trustworthy, familiar, and honest, and that this portrayal is normalized and ubiquitous. Whether on television, film, social media, or in the news, white people are constructed as believable and unrehearsed, from the way they talk to how they look and act.
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Fear, Hate, And Victimhood - How George Wallace Wrote The Donald Trump Playbook

by Andrew E. Stoner

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 Though separated by almost half a century, the campaigns of both George Wallace and Donald Trump broke new grounds for political partisanship and divisiveness. Andrew Stoner analyses the two candidates, their campaigns, and their speeches and activities, as well as their coverage by the media, through the lens of demagogic rhetoric.
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Rebirthing A Nation - White Women, Identity Politics, And The Internet

by Wendy K. Z. Anderson

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 Details how white nationalist and alt-right women refine racist rhetoric and web design as a means of protection and simultaneous instantiation of white supremacy, which conservative political actors including Sarah Palin, Donald Trump, Kellyanne Conway, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, and Ivanka Trump have amplified through transnational politics.
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Black Feelings - Race And Affect In The Long Sixties

by Lisa M. Corrigan

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 In her latest book, award-winning author Lisa Corrigan suggests that Black Power provided a significant repository for negative feelings, largely black pessimism, to resist the constant physical violence against black activists and the psychological strain of political disappointment.
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Promises Of Citizenship - Film Recruitment Of African Americans In World War Ii

by Kathleen M. German

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 To generate African American support for World War II, the government turned to mass media. Kathleen German delves into the dilemma of race and the federal government's attempts to appeal to black patriotism and pride even while postponing demands for equality and integration until victory was achieved.
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Curt Flood In The Media - Baseball, Race, And The Demise Of The Activist-Athlete

by Abraham Iqbal Khan

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 Examines the public discourse surrounding Curt Flood, the star center fielder for the St. Louis Cardinals throughout the sixties. In 1969, Flood was traded to the Philadelphia Phillies. By examining the mainstream press, the black press, and primary sources, including Flood's autobiography, Khan exposes the complexities of what it means to be a prominent black American athlete - in 1969 and today.
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The Golden Age Musicals Of Darryl F. Zanuck - The Gentleman Preferred Blondes

by Bernard F. Dick

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 The first book devoted to the musicals of Daryl F. Zanuck. The volume spotlights how he placed his personal imprint on the genre and how - especially at Twentieth Century-Fox - he nurtured and showcased several blonde female stars who headlined the studioâ€™s musicals.
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Love, Daddy - Letters From My Father

by David Rae Morris, Kaylie Jones e Willie Morris

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 Examines the complexities of father-and-son relationships through letters and photographs. Willie Morris wrote scores of letters to his only son, David Rae Morris, from the mid-1970s until Willieâ€™s death in 1999. They illuminate the complexities of one family relationship, and how, for better or worse, that love endures the passage of time.
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Reconstructing Southern Rhetoric

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 Takes on the task of reconstructing the way southern rhetoric has been critiqued within the communication discipline. This book reveals that southern rhetoric is fluid and migrates beyond geography, is constructed in weak counterpublic formation against legitimated power, creates a region that is not monolithic, and warrants activism and healing.
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Racial Terrorism - A Rhetorical Investigation Of Lynching

by Marouf A. Hasian Jr. e Nicholas S. Paliewicz

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 In 2018, the US Senate unanimously passed the nation's first antilynching act. For the first time in US history, legislators classified lynching as a federal hate crime. This book focuses on several key social agents and organisations that played vital roles in the public and legal consciousness raising that finally led to the passage of the act.
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Martin Luther King'S Biblical Epic - His Final, Great Speech

by Keith D. Miller

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 Even though King cited and explicated the Bible in hundreds of speeches and sermons, Martin Luther King's Biblical Epic is the first book to analyze his approach to the Bible and its importance to his rhetoric and persuasiveness. It argues that King challenged dominant Christian supersessionist conceptions of Judaism in favour of a Christianity that affirms Judaism as its wellspring.
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