Double Crossed
Black Female Intersectionality in Hollywood
A concerning analysis of the distortions and pervasive stereotypes of Black female images within Hollywood
Memory Work
White Ignorance and Black Resistance in Popular Magazines, 1900-1910
How post-Reconstruction periodicals used opposing rhetorical strategies to shape public memory
Rupturing Rhetoric
The Politics of Race and Popular Culture since Ferguson
How popular media reinforce and resist the false narrative of postracialism
Superheroes in the Streets
Muslim Women Activists and Protest in the Digital Age
How Muslim women activists have heroically raised physical and digital protest banners
The Summer of 2020
George Floyd and the Resurgence of the Black Lives Matter Movement
An in-depth look at a profound flashpoint in social movement history
Terror and Truth
Civil Rights Tourism and the Mississippi Movement
The first critical examination of Mississippi’s civil rights tourism industry
The Rhetorical Road to Brown v. Board of Education
Elizabeth and Waties Waring's Campaign
An illuminating look at the little-known rhetorical campaign that helped advance the cause of school desegregation
A Slow, Calculated Lynching
The Story of Clyde Kennard
The harrowing, yet pivotal, story of a brilliant integration advocate
Visions of Invasion
Alien Affects, Cinema, and Citizenship in Settler Colonies
An exploration of the ways migrants are coded as alien in popular film and public discourse
Authenticating Whiteness
Karens, Selfies, and Pop Stars
A critical examination of authenticity as a strategy of whiteness in popular media
Black Bodies in the River
Searching for Freedom Summer
A rhetorical interrogation of the pervasive claim that unidentified Black bodies were discovered during investigations into one of Freedom Summer's most widely known events
Fear, Hate, and Victimhood
How George Wallace Wrote the Donald Trump Playbook
A blistering critique of the rhetoric of two candidates and how President Trump succeeded
Curious about George
Curious George, Cultural Icons, Colonialism, and US Exceptionalism
The first book-length study of one of literature’s most valuable, ubiquitous children’s characters
Reconstructing Southern Rhetoric
A collection of new essays that redefine and restructure how communication scholars study the South
Rebirthing a Nation
White Women, Identity Politics, and the Internet
A timely exploration of the role white women play in supporting systems of racism
Racial Terrorism
A Rhetorical Investigation of Lynching
How the Equal Justice Initiative, the Legacy Museum, and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice confront racial violence in America
No Future in This Country
The Prophetic Pessimism of Bishop Henry McNeal Turner
A critical study of the career of the nineteenth-century bishop
Black Feelings
Race and Affect in the Long Sixties
How the black liberation movement confronted ideologies of progress and equality through emotional discourse
The Bad Sixties
Hollywood Memories of the Counterculture, Antiwar, and Black Power Movements
An exposure of how mainstream film and television wilts flower power and diffuses the potency of protest
Race and Radio
Pioneering Black Broadcasters in New Orleans
An invaluable history of the first African American radio voices and their influence in segregated New Orleans