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Thick rhetoric: MLK and global cartographies of polyvocal struggle Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-06 Heather Ashley Hayes
This essay introduces a framework of thick rhetoric looking to articulations of freedom and resistance around The Montgomery Story, a 1958 graphic novel published in Alabama U.S.A. Thickness sugges...
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Taking a stand from the periphery: negotiating and resisting the white gaze in public images of Black women’s civic protest Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-04 Megan Mapes, W. Patrick Wade, Patricia Davis
This essay utilizes the iconic photograph of Ieshia Evans at the 2016 Black Lives Matter protest in Baton Rouge, LA to complicate dominant understandings of iconicity in relation to racial icons. W...
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Perfumed platforms, or the common scents of post-Fordism Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-27 Malcolm Ogden
In this paper, I look at the relationship between human olfaction, digital platforms, and everyday media practices in contemporary capitalist contexts. In the first section, I map what I describe a...
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Gun violence rhetoric in Milwaukee: racialized violence and the creation of urban space Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-21 Leslie J. Harris, Erin Sahlstein Parcell
Gun violence is a widespread problem in the United States. Using the case study of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, we analyze gun violence stories shared through the public humanities project, Voices of Gun ...
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Mandating work, commanding health, and managing risk: the (bio)politics of Medicaid reform Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-26 Leifa Mayers
In this article, I analyze proposed Medicaid work requirements to argue that gendered and racialized discourses of poverty and ableist constructs of employability present “able-bodied” Medicaid rec...
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Introduction: racism doesn’t care about democracy either Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-22 Eric King Watts
As the US approaches an intense inflection point in this grand experiment with democratic ideals, a pinched nerve in the form of a presidential election, this second special anniversary forum consi...
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Unthinking care Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-22 Joshua Trey Barnett
Within and beyond the field of communication, invocations of “care” are rising. In this brief essay, I complicate how scholars of communication relate to care as a feeling, practice, ethics, and po...
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[Black] plastic feelings; feeling [Black] Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-22 Kristen Warner
One way to ensure a future for the disciplines housed in the pages of CC/CS is to embrace the realization that researchers do not have to disinvite ourselves from the work we do. Through an explora...
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The common wind from below: unruly metaphors, radical rhetorics, and pluriversal worlds within/across/beyond the Haitian and Zapatista Revolutions (part 2/2) Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-22 Matthew Houdek
Through an “inter(con)textual reading” (Maraj), this essay explores the resonances and generative incongruences between two prominent metaphors that reflect the thought/feeling/praxis of two of the...
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Unruly traditions of critical/cultural studies Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-22 Bryce Henson
Much of critical/cultural studies in communication has fallen into a comfortable disciplinarity. This is due in part to its reliance on media studies and the “encoding/decoding” model. This essay r...
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Postcolonial ecologies in cyberspace: on the “anti-environments” of Singapore Art Week 2022s’ Somewhere in Bedok and Peripheral Spaces Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Hui Wong
This article explores how digital art exhibitions and bioecology interact in the contemporary Singaporean cultural milieu. Applying theoretical tools from recent work in environmental and oceanic m...
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Correction Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-28
Published in Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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A racial capitalism approach to communication and critical cultural studies Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Roopali Mukherjee
Taking as a generative starting point, Stuart Hall’s insight that “race is the modality in which class is lived” (1978), this essay considers the relevance of theoretical paradigms of “racial capit...
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On the censoring of Dr Ahlam Muhtaseb Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-21
Published in Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (Vol. 21, No. 1, 2024)
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Vicennium: looking back before moving forward Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Robin M. Boylorn
In this outgoing editorial for the 20th Anniversary volume of Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, Robin M. Boylorn reflects on her editorship using the lens and metaphor of an archivist an...
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Cultural politics and public intellectuals in the age of emerging fascism* Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Henry A. Giroux
.Giroux argues that an upgraded form of fascism with its rabid nativism and hatred of racial mixing is at the center of United States politics. Traditional liberal values of equality, social justic...
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Introduction: about democratic discourse Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Robert L. Ivie
This essay introduces a twentieth anniversary forum reviewing the state of scholarship on communication as a critical/cultural study. It features democratic discourse as a main line of inquiry for ...
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Anniversary memories, a lost critic, and queer future multitudes of critical/cultural studies Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Charles E. Morris III
This essay remembers Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies’ (CC/CS’s) queer engagement with the discipline. Its anniversary also conjures memories of queer critical/cultural scholar Daniel Br...
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The medicalization of the culture wars Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Jeffrey A. Bennett
Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies was a product of the 9/11 era. In this article, I consider the ways the COVID-19 pandemic displaced 9/11 as the defining event of our time and, in the pr...
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Communication and race: the paucity of research on anti-Muslim racism Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Deepa Kumar
The field of Communication has been critiqued for its failure to take race seriously. This article contributes to this ongoing discussion through a focus on anti-Muslim racism scholarship. Six NCA ...
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Whither cultural studies in (US) communication studies? The problem of parochialism Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Raka Shome
This article critiques the US/UK centrism in cultural studies work in our field and the larger US academy. It addresses the limits of concepts in Cultural Studies that are popular in the Communicat...
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Articulating whiteness Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Thomas K. Nakayama
In almost three decades of work on whiteness in communication studies, it has developed in a number of different directions. In contemporary cultural politics, whiteness has transformed into an eve...
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An accounting from Dr Ahlam Muhtaseb Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Ahlam Muhtaseb
Published in Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (Vol. 21, No. 1, 2024)
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“Smarties, you know what’s up!”: curating a community and cultivating pleasure as a social justice influencer Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-17 Kristin M. Peterson
This article analyzes the Instagram postings of Blair Imani, an influencer who blends lifestyle content with social justice advocacy. Through an analysis of popular posts and follower engagement, I...
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Academia’s next top bottom: Title IX as performative advocacy Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-17 Ragan Fox
In this complaint biography, I consider how Title IX’s peri-performative protocols fail to address structural homophobia and transphobia. Peri-performativity is a spatial metaphor that theorizes co...
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Reproducing violence, racism, and erasure in research Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Cristiana Shipma McFarland, Elizabeth Wilhoit Larson
In 2019, we received a Top Paper Award for a paper presented at a national communication conference, despite our erasure of Black women from the history of midwifery in Alabama. We recognize and ac...
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Negotiating rhetorics of diversity through performances of propriety: a quare autocritography Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-03 Rico Self
In this essay, the author, a Black queer Mississippian, advances a methodology they term quare autocritography to reflect upon their experiences of precarity, exclusion, and isolation as a graduate...
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Radio Free Dixie from Cuba to the Black Belt: mapping Black nationhood through cartographies of sonic rhetoric Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Kate Siegfried
In this essay, I follow sound across hegemonic geopolitical boundaries to map its place-making force in the emergence of new forms of nationhood. Through an analysis of Mabel and Robert F. William’...
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Can You See Her? The Absent Presence of Black Female Subjectivity in Get Out (2017) Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Daelena Tinnin-Gadson
This article investigates racial-sexual violence, and conceptualizations of Black female subjectivity as they are situated in the cinematic Black political imagination. Through a Black feminist ana...
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A rhetorical praxis of rebellious knowledge production: Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s outsider jurisprudence in Utah v. Strieff Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Katie L. Gibson
In 2016, Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote a stunning legal opinion that challenged the Supreme Court’s ruling in Utah v. Strieff and marked a watershed moment for her voice of dissent. In this essay, ...
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No Justice, No Streets! Black radical placemaking and its political aesthetics in George Floyd Square Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-03 George Villanueva
Building from Black geographies and Black media studies, I propose “Black radical placemaking” as a communicative approach to reimagine urban planning practices toward more racially equitable futur...
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Copies without an original: the performativity of biometric bordering technologies Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-12-30 Eleanor Drage, Federica Frabetti
We analyze two examples of biometrics in civil registration and migration contexts (the German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees’ voice biometry system and the UK HMPO passport photo checke...
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Branding being true: visibility politics and Nike’s engagement with LGBTQ+ communities Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Evan Brody
In this article, the author examines Nike’s engagement with LGBTQ+ communities through its Be True products and campaigns. An analysis of Nike’s official statements about the line, and its advertis...
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When Puppies start to hate: the revanchist nostalgia of the Hugo Awards’ PuppyGate controversy Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Max Dosser
In 2015, two groups of right-wing authors and fans – the Sad and Rabid Puppies – flooded the Hugo Awards with literature they deemed “popular” and anti-“message fiction.” These reactionaries mobili...
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Protecting women’s sports? Anti-trans youth sports bills and white supremacy Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Mia Fischer
An unprecedented number of anti-transgender youth sports bills have been introduced in various state legislatures across the United States since 2020. These bills seek to bar trans youth from playi...
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Neoliberal masculinity in the Ultimate Fighting Championship Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Jennifer McClearen
In this article, the author examines neoliberal masculinity in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) in the aftermath of Donald Trump’s election. She uses neoliberal masculinity as a framework f...
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F*ck your condolences: the rhetoric of an impossible demand Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-08-08 Darrian Carroll
ABSTRACT On July 16, 2019, after Daniel Pantaleo’s non-indictment, Emerald Snipes-Garner, Eric Garner’s daughter, took to the steps of the New York Court House and demanded the impossible, that her deceased family members be alive. In this essay, I approach Snipes-Garner’s advocacy with a version of racial rhetorical criticism focused on how Black people rebuke racism. Attuning to Snipes-Garner’s impossible
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The Trump administration’s framing of the MS-13 gang: narrowing the borders of belonging with homeland maternity Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-07-30 Jimmy Lizama
ABSTRACT This article reveals how the Trump administration constructed an anti-immigrant narrative tailored for Central Americans that modified established anti-Mexican nativism. By reinscribing a hegemonic “mythos” about gangs, harnessing homeland maternity, and representing undocumented Central Americans as a primary factor for MS-13’s presence and waves of violence, the administration portrayed
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Staging progressive dissensus and the politics of Black silence: Black Lives Matter, Bernie Sanders, and the August 2015 rally in Seattle Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-07-27 Daniel Dilliplane
ABSTRACT In August 2015, Black Lives Matter activists Mara Willaford and Marissa Johnson interrupted a Seattle rally with a four-and-a-half-minute silent commemoration of Black teenager Michael Brown, preventing presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders from speaking. Using a Rancièrean political framework and a methodology of performance-inflected rhetorical criticism, I explore how this silent
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“Remaking the world memetically”: interrogating white nationalist subject formation through the circulation of the “Wagecuck” meme Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-07-06 Reed Van Schenck
ABSTRACT This essay examines the wagecuck, a 4chan meme portraying wage workers and NEET (Not in Education, Employment, or Training) counterparts, as an artifact of white nationalist desire. Through a rhetorical materialist analysis focused on exchange, I argue that wagecuck memes encourage viewers to pursue white recognition to offset anxieties of race, class, and sexuality. The meme circulates cuckold
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Rhetorical fractals: an Afrocentric analysis of #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-07-06 Emma Frances Bloomfield, Curtis Ladrillo Chamblee
ABSTRACT Derek Chauvin’s trial for murdering George Floyd was a flashpoint of public deliberation around justice, accountability, and police reform. Burkean approaches to guilt, and their corresponding Western understandings of language, can be extended through Afrocentric rhetorics. We propose the “rhetorical fractal” to encompass Black ways of knowing and communicating. Unlike a cycle that returns
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Introduction: possibilities of collaboration between public memory scholars and higher education public relations professionals Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-05-28 LaTonya J. Taylor
ABSTRACT This is the second part of a two-part forum called Interventions in Public Memory: Interrogating the Critical/Cultural Landscape of Higher Education, edited by Meredith M. Bagley. In this introduction, I explore the ways public memory scholars and higher education public relations professionals can collaborate to enhance critical/cultural approaches to institutional public memory on campuses
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Counter-tour as resuscitation: breathing life into the campus memory landscape Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-05-28 Meredith M. Bagley
ABSTRACT Based on a decade of work at my home campus, I argue that a counter-memory campus tour answers Ersula Ore and Matthew Houdek’s call for rhetorical storytelling of experiences and places related to race, violence, and white supremacy. I recount ways that counter-memory campus tours can “breathe life into memory” of first Black students and resuscitate their lived experience in profound ways
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Countercurricular rhetorical education: reimagining the university from the inside out Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-05-28 Allison Dziuba
ABSTRACT This essay articulates the theoretical basis for my term “countercurricular,” which denotes college students’ use of curricular and extracurricular learning to craft alternative or oppositional views. The countercurricular highlights how student organizers mobilize history to change the present, especially to inscribe into public memory recurring conflicts between students and university administrations
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Institutional pessimism and optimism in racial repair Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-05-28 Brandon Inabinet
ABSTRACT The 2017-2018 Task Force on Slavery and Justice at Furman University documented historical harms and initiated reparative action. In this article, I advance a theory of institutional optimism and pessimism that flows through the work of racial repair. Narrating my experience as co-chair of this process, I call others to learn from the protean agency and hope of minorities, rather than embrace
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Place is everything: remembering responsibilities between and beyond land acknowledgments Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-05-28 Ashley Cordes
ABSTRACT Land acknowledgment statements in higher education have become pervasive performative gestures that serve to relieve settler guilt and manage public memory. This article details the distribution of stolen Indigenous lands to universities, and identifies problematics of university land acknowledgments. I offer the concept of “impoverished memory” to discuss the insufficient, duplicative means
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Crafting a technology of recovery: the story of the Virtual Martin Luther King Project Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-05-28 Victoria J. Gallagher, Max Renner
ABSTRACT This article tells the story of a rhetorically informed transmedia digital humanities project called the Virtual Martin Luther King Project (vMLK). As a project that is interdisciplinary and community engaged in its development and enactments, vMLK provides a particularly rich site for examining ways to (re)shape the critical/cultural landscapes of higher education. The article explicates
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Memory as everyday critical praxis Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-05-28 Patricia Davis
ABSTRACT Successful campaigns to remove Confederate monuments from U.S. campuses have been instrumental in restructuring these spaces to better reflect our diverse communities and foster the sense of belonging important to the well-being of all students. Nevertheless, these campaigns also obscure the more mundane ways in which hegemonic historical narratives continue to inform the memories students
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The transracial subject and the emotive regime: Rachel Dolezal, racial phronêsis, and inverted miscegenation Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-05-28 Nathan Rothenbaum
ABSTRACT This article analyzes Rachel Dolezal’s autobiography In Full Color: Finding My Place in a Black and White World as a means to excavate the contours of an emergent Emotive race regime—a regime from which claimants to transracial identities base their sense of belonging. I argue that this Emotive regime repurposes Aristotelian ethos as a referent for racial identity, and I then show the entailments
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Truth as White property: solidifying White epistemology and owning racial knowledge Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-05-01 Vincent N. Pham
ABSTRACT Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential election underscored the role of “Truth” and how it functions in an epistemological relationship with conservative identity. Drawing upon Cheryl Harris’s notion of “whiteness as property,” this article forwards a theoretical framework of “Truth as White property” whereby Truth functions as an extension of whiteness and as a possession of whiteness. Using Fox
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Reconnections: remembering land when the university wants us to forget Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-03-26 Michael Lechuga, Kate Drazner Hoyt, Shane Burrell
ABSTRACT In this essay, we describe how activist and creative impulses led to the establishment of the Multi-User Virtual Environment (MUVE Lab) at the University of New Mexico. The mission of the lab is rooted in a Pluriversal vision of environmental pedagogy, pulling from Indigenous ways of knowing to inform a creative practice that challenges the mechanisms of purposeful forgetting at the center
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Forgetting Fulbright: opposing racist public memory at the University of Arkansas Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-03-26 T. Jake Dionne, Joe Edward Hatfield, Nabiha Khetani, Joel Metcalf
ABSTRACT In summer 2020 at the University of Arkansas, a Black-led protest movement known as #BlackatUARK challenged the presence of a statue to William J. Fulbright due to his racist voting record. Despite the Arkansas state legislature quickly passing a law that made the removal of the memorial illegal, contributors to #BlackatUARK demonstrated how to forget Fulbright by recontextualizing his memory
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Disrupting institutional memory sites: racialized counter-memory at the University of Maryland Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-03-26 Alyson Farzad-Phillips
ABSTRACT As universities grapple with their long-standing and ever-present relationships with white supremacy, how do they choose to physically mark racial memories on campus, especially those related to racial violence? At the University of Maryland, competing messages from two different memorials for a slain Black student demonstrate the need to critique the form and content of university memorialization
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Town/gown hostilities and memory entrepreneurship Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-03-26 Jessy Ohl
ABSTRACT Increased controversy over the truth and meaning of the past has fueled an economic surge in public memory spurring competition between universities and cities for material and symbolic resources. Relations between “town and gown” are often fraught with distrust and sabotage as university administrators and government officials carve out their own memory territories for profit. As rhetorical
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Discouragement, delay, and doublespeak at southern universities: considerations and context for scholars of cultural studies Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-03-26 Stephen Monroe
ABSTRACT Delay and doublespeak have long been effective ways to communicate discouragement to those seeking change within white supremacist systems. Indeed, white Southerners in power have deployed these strategies of resistance at every turn during the decades since the Civil War. This has certainly been true in education. My essay explores examples of these rhetorical strategies still at work to
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Subject to/flesh, object/to verb (:) the business of naming Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-03-26 Louis M. Maraj
ABSTRACT How do quotidian speech-acts, lived experiences, and normative grammars/logics capture affects of antiBlack racism that co-constitute campus memory and landscapes beyond infrastructure and spectacular commemoration of exceptional past events/historical figures? How does Black resistance to white supremacist university structures (un)fold with/in them? This experimental essay considers power
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Naming, blaming, and “Framing”: Kimberlé Crenshaw and the rhetoric of Black feminist pedagogy Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-03-26 Alisa Hardy
ABSTRACT This article examines Kimberlé Crenshaw’s interview on Democracy Now! in 2015 and her 2016 TEDTalk, “The Urgency of Intersectionality,” to theorize Black women’s “activist rhetoric of blame.” Crenshaw enacts three distinctive features of Black feminist pedagogy in her activism for the #SayHerName Campaign. She challenges traditional “frames” of antiBlack police brutality, uses blaming vocabulary
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Hero, adventurer and advocate volunteers: A visual analysis of volunteer tourists’ identities on Instagram Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-03-07 Sofia Rastelli, Apoorva Nanjangud
ABSTRACT When the hybrid business of volunteer tourism (volunteer service coupled with leisure touristic activities) meets the self-referential language of Instagram, travel photography intertwines with the identity construction process. Accordingly, this article examines the visual and textual narratives used to build voluntourists’ identities in their posts from their experiences abroad. Authors
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“What’s wrong with Blackface?”: theorizing humor ecologies and Blackface as satire Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-02-19 Amanda N. Brand
ABSTRACT In this essay, I analyze the rhetorical implications of removing sitcom episodes containing Blackface from streaming platforms. By situating Blackface performances within what I call their humor ecologies, I attend to the dynamic interplay between comedic reflexivity, racial humor ideology, comic personae, and network influence. I argue that these factors enable audiences to glean meaning
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Introduction: interrogating the memory landscape of higher education Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-02-05 Meredith M. Bagley
ABSTRACT This is the first part of a two-part forum called Interventions in Public Memory: Interrogating the Critical/Cultural Landscape of Higher Education, edited by Meredith M. Bagley. In this installment, scholar activists engage critical questions of public memory on their own higher education campuses, including relationships to the land, resistance to institutional memory, and tensions of “town