1st Edition

Reading, Writing, and the Rhetorics of Whiteness

210 Pages

by Routledge

210 Pages

by Routledge

200 Pages

by Routledge

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In this volume, Ryden and Marshall bring together the field of composition and rhetoric with critical whiteness studies to show that in our "post race" era whiteness and racism not only survive but actually thrive in higher education. As they examine the effects of racism on contemporary literacy practices and the rhetoric by which white privilege maintains and reproduces itself, Ryden and... Read more

Contents Introduction: Where Has All the Whiteness Gone? Reading and Writing Race in a "Post-Race" Era, Wendy Ryden and Ian Marshall 1: Confessing Whiteness: Performing the Anti-Racist, Liberal Subject, Wendy Ryden 2: Whiteness (as) in Basic Writing, Ian Marshall 3: The Kitsch of Liberal Whiteness and Bankrupt Discourses of Race, Wendy Ryden 4: Whiteness, Composition, and Enthymemes of Institutional Discourse, Ian Marshall 5: Moving Whiteness: Rhetoric and Political Emotion, Wendy Ryden 6: Encountering Whiteness as Resistance: Dialogue and Authority in the Composition Classroom, Ian Marshall Afterword: "Washing the White Blood from Daniel Boone", Ian Marshall and Wendy Ryden