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Derailing the capitalist engine: theorizing relations of mujō through Mugen Train Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2024-04-19 Megu Itoh (she/her), Fielding Montgomery (he/him), Taylor Hourigan (she/her)
As one of the most successful pieces of transnational popular culture, we rhetorically analyze the compelling critique of neoliberal capitalism in the 2020 anime film, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaib...
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Rewriting the plan of the world: Peter Thiel’s messianic rhetoric and the end of progressive neoliberalism Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 James Rushing Daniel (he/him)
Following the 2007–8 financial crisis, far-Right conservatives advanced a reactionary political turn, seeking to replace the prevailing political order, what Nancy Fraser calls “progressive neolibe...
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Am I heard? Am I listened to? Am I understood? An essay about bringing Indonesia to the discipline Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Dewi R. Azizah
In this essay, I explore the concept of radical rhetoric by writing about my own personal experience as an Indonesian woman studying in the United States. In this piece, I examine the liminality of...
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Humanizing Black lives in protest: emotion, embodiment, and interracial witnessing Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Roberta Chevrette (she/her/hers), Aaron Hess (he/him/his)
The video of Derek Chauvin’s murder of George Floyd sparked a wave of protests and civil unrest, leading white support of Black Lives Matter to reach an all-time high in 2020. During this time, the...
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Dispatches from a body on fire: slow death at the intersections of race, gender, and disability Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2024-04-11 V. Jo Hsu (they/them)
While contemporary fascisms operate in ways both obvious and covert, this piece focuses on the gradual harms that remain unintelligible in everyday rhetorics. I join scholars such as E Cram, who ha...
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Performing hope at hopelessness: radical rhetorics, critical states, vulnerable populations Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Serap Erincin (she/they/all gender neutral pronouns)
My performances and installations question the connections between the forces that cause social injustices and environmental catastrophes. Affective multimedia performances generate spaces of ruptu...
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The Dual Containment metaphor: Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and linking the Cold War to the War on Terror Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Randall Fowler
This essay analyzes the Dual Containment metaphor of the Clinton administration, which reconciled President Clinton’s internationalist post-Cold War rhetoric with aggressive treatment of Iraq and I...
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White intransigence and the radical rhetoric of Blacks fighting back Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Annie Hill (she/her)
This essay analyzes the riverfront brawl in Montgomery, Alabama in 2023 to consider an instance when Black speech was met by white intransigence. I define white intransigence as a racist rhetorical...
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On occupying the silent parenthetical: Thinking-feeling after the Ends/ings (Part 1/2) Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Matthew Houdek
To speak of “the End” as a cataclysmic future event, as depicted in popular apocalyptic genres, oversimplifies the prolonged, multiplicitous character of the End Times as they unfold unevenly acros...
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Landships, landship politics, and placing rhetorics Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2024-03-24 Michael Lechuga (he/him)
In this forum essay, I add the idea of “Landships” as a concept to define the sets of relationships between people that are mediated through an undeniable connection to the natural world. I discuss...
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Resisting an unfolding genocide: reflections from radical struggles in the Global South Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Mohan J. Dutta (he/him)
This essay theorizes radical struggles at the world’s end, emergent from registers of organizing against colonial–imperial–capitalist violence in the Global South. Working through the ongoing genoc...
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Radical rhetorics at/and the world’s end: epistemologies, ontologies, and otherwise possibilities Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Noor Ghazal Aswad (she/her), Matthew Houdek (he/him)
This short essay introduces the special issue, “Radical Rhetorics at/and the World’s End,” which features original short essays that offer bold, risky, and provocative perspectives that share the g...
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Correction Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2024-03-20
Published in Quarterly Journal of Speech (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Cultivating radical care and otherwise possibilities at the end of the world Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Noor Ghazal Aswad
This essay explores the existence of alternative worlds and radical rhetorics within the seemingly apocalyptic landscapes of borders, patriarchy, and environmental decay. Despite the prevailing cha...
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Articulating water conservation as colonization: revisiting the “public interest” in Theodore Roosevelt’s First Annual Message Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Warren Cook (he/him)
As policymakers attempt to cope with climate chaos, traditions of water injustice persist. Meanwhile, water problems and solutions in the U.S. arid region have long been discussed through the disco...
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How liberals lost the public: Walter Lippmann, John Dewey, and the critique of “traditional democratic theory” Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Ned O’Gorman (he/him)
Since the 1990s, rhetorical and communication studies have taken a strong turn toward multiplicity in publics scholarship. This turn has generally been understood as representing both a political a...
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Storytelling and worldmaking climate justice futures: Indigenous climate advocacy and transnational solidarity in UN climate conferences Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Jessica Chaplain
This essay analyzes statements made by the International Indigenous People’s Forum on Climate Change (IIPFCC) at the United Nations Climate Change Conferences from 2017–2021 to amplify how Indigeno...
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Nuclear zelus: climate-oriented imaginaries among nuclear energy professionals Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Brian Cozen, Danielle Endres
This essay engages rhetorics of zeal, a common genre of contemporary discourse that merits further study. To focus on a representative example, we draw from multi-sited rhetorical fieldwork at nucl...
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Rhetorics of authentic hybridity and the racially mobile mestiça in “Girl from Rio” Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Raquel Moreira (she/her/ela/dela)
Brazilian pop star Anitta has achieved several indicators of a successful crossover to the U.S. music market. In this essay, I perform a close reading of the music video for “Girl from Rio” that pa...
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An accounting from Dr. Ahlam Muhtaseb Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Ahlam Muhtaseb (she/her)
Published in Quarterly Journal of Speech (Vol. 110, No. 1, 2024)
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Democratic melodrama and authoritarian melodrama Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Peter K. Bsumek (he/him), Jennifer Peeples (she/her), Jen Schneider (she/her)
This essay distinguishes democratic melodrama from authoritarian melodrama. We argue that the distinction between the two forms of melodrama is not merely located in the “eye of the beholder,” but ...
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Skepticism as ethos: David Hume’s response to the epistemological revolution Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Alexander W. Morales (he/him)
This article examines David Hume’s mitigated skepticism as enacted through an ethos that refashions moral philosophy’s public identity by appealing to the virtues of England’s transforming scientif...
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Affect and melodramatic resistance Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Norie R. Singer (she/her)
This essay uses the occasion of tribute to return to Steve Schwarze’s “Environmental Melodrama” and Gregory Desilet and Edward C. Appel’s later essay representing arguably the most important theore...
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On the censoring of Dr. Ahlam Muhtaseb Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2024-01-02 Stacey K. Sowards
Published in Quarterly Journal of Speech (Vol. 110, No. 1, 2024)
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“Outstanding”: early Schwarze and the seeds of melodrama Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2024-01-01 Marilyn DeLaure (she/her)
In this essay, I reflect on how ideas and commitments that defined Steve Schwarze’s early engagements with rhetorical studies shaped his later work on environmental melodrama. Steve and I met as te...
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Framing the activists: gender, race, and rhetorical disability in contested illnesses Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2023-12-26 V. Jo Hsu
For the past five decades, patients with myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) have struggled against the stereotype that their symptoms are “all in their heads.” With ME now appearing in roughly half the...
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Melodrama and empathic indignation Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Terence Paul Check (he/him)
This essay aligns Steve Schwarze’s notion of melodrama with Richard B. Miller’s call for “empathic indignation” and Louise Knops and Guillaume Petit’s notion of indignation as “affective transforma...
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Engaging with melodrama: a tribute to Steve Schwarze Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2023-12-21 Carlos A. Tarin (he/him)
In this forum, several rhetorical scholars revisit Steve Schwarze’s 2006 essay, “Environmental Melodrama,” and the scholarly conversations his work inspired. The five essays featured in this forum ...
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Suffering and the edges of melodrama Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Shiv Ganesh (he/him/they)
Suffering occupies a central place vis-à-vis both melodrama and tragedy, and draws attention to their closeness, despite considerable efforts to distinguish between them. The multiple relations bet...
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The Borders of AIDS: Race, Quarantine, and Resistance Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2023-11-10 Godfried Asante (he/him), Rico Self (he/him)
Published in Quarterly Journal of Speech (Vol. 109, No. 4, 2023)
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Alienizing logics and rhetoric at the end of the world Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2023-11-10 Karma R. Chávez (she/her)
Published in Quarterly Journal of Speech (Vol. 109, No. 4, 2023)
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The Borders of AIDS: Race, Quarantine, and Resistance Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2023-11-10 A. Naomi Paik
Published in Quarterly Journal of Speech (Vol. 109, No. 4, 2023)
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Narrative multiplicities and the politics of memory in The Borders of AIDS Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2023-11-10 Jeff Bennett (he/him)
Published in Quarterly Journal of Speech (Vol. 109, No. 4, 2023)
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Beyond participation, toward disparticipation Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2023-11-09 (he/him) Matthew Salzano
Social movements require participatory dissent. Facing tensions between ideological purity and mass popularity, movements that desire to be politically effective and act in the interest of their pa...
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Public futurity: the rhetorics of sustainability and survival at the former Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2023-11-09 Haley Schneider (she/they)
I propose the concept of public futurity as a framework for studying how communities renegotiate collective identity in times of crisis. Public futurity, which I define as the process by which grou...
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X, analyst Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2023-11-06 Nathan H. Bedsole (he/his)
This essay situates X González’s oratory and activism for gun legislation within Jacques Lacan’s Discourse of the Analyst to argue for the affirmative role of analytic silence in a body politic rid...
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Expanding the framework of rhetorical circulation: an approach to online symbolic accretion through the rhizomorph Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2023-10-23 Luis Miguel López-Londoño (he/his)
On October 18, 2019, members of the Colombian Army covered a highly visible mural with white paint. The mural depicted the Army’s active and retired generals who are allegedly responsible for extra...
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“This is America”: repurposing the white gaze through imitation Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2023-10-16 Kesha James PhD (she/her)
Childish Gambino's music video “This is America” garnered national attention for its graphic portrayals of commodified Black pain. The music video critically exposes how white America visually cons...
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“The Rosa Parks of the trans bathroom debate”: Gavin Grimm and the racialization of transgender civil rights Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2023-09-28 Erin J. Rand (she/her)
Gavin Grimm, a white transgender boy from Virginia, successfully sued his school board in Grimm v. Gloucester County School Board and helped secure the right for trans and gender nonconforming stud...
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Toward reproductive justice rhetorics of care: state senator Jen Jordan’s dissent of Georgia’s heartbeat bill Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2023-09-14 Savannah Greer Downing (she/her)
As we emerge into a post-Roe landscape spurred by state-level “heartbeat bills,” the stakes are high for rhetorical scholars to identify rhetorical topoi that have the capacity to intervene in legi...
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De-whitening consent amidst COVID-19 rhetoric Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2023-09-11 Lamiyah Bahrainwala, Kate Lockwood Harris
This article exposes four white-supremacist tactics embedded within extant consent discourse that became increasingly mobilized through the COVID-19 pandemic. These tactics include discourses of mi...
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The U.S. American left and reverse moral exceptionalism: when do villains become heroes? Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2023-09-07 Noor Ghazal Aswad (she/her)
This article takes the assassination of Qasem Soleimani as a case study that manifests the schism between the realities of those in revolutionary struggle and those on the U.S. American left who mi...
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Global Rhetorical Traditions Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2023-07-10 Scott R. Stroud
Published in Quarterly Journal of Speech (Vol. 109, No. 3, 2023)
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The evolution of mathematics: a rhetorical approach Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2023-07-03 Crystal Broch Colombini
Published in Quarterly Journal of Speech (Vol. 109, No. 3, 2023)
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Stripped: reading the erotic body Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2023-07-03 Eliza Buckner
Published in Quarterly Journal of Speech (Vol. 109, No. 3, 2023)
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Misogynoir and the public woman: analog and digital sexualization of women in public from the Civil War to the era of Kamala Harris Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2023-05-31 Cecilia Cerja (she/her), Nicole D. Nave (she/her), Kelly L. Winfrey (she/her), Catherine Helen Palczewski (she/her), Leslie A. Hahner (she/her)
This essay identifies how the very conception of public woman is infused with the opprobrium hurled against a wanton woman – a sexualized figure who has lost claims to moral standing or social wort...
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What it Feels Like: Visceral Rhetoric and the Politics of Rape Culture Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2023-05-16 Lauren L. Buisker (she/her/hers)
Published in Quarterly Journal of Speech (Vol. 109, No. 2, 2023)
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“White man's road through Black man's home”: decolonial organizing in the metropole Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2023-05-16 Kristy Maddux (she/her)
Between 1965 and 1973, a coalition of local Washington, D.C., activists, organized as the Emergency Committee on the Transportation Crisis (ECTC), prevented construction of two freeways that would ...
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A market for civil rights: whiteness as property, colorblindness, and the rhetoric of school choice Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2023-05-11 Robert Asen (he/him)
ABSTRACT In this essay, I focus on the advocacy of Betsy DeVos as a prominent exemplar of a larger trend among U.S. pro-market education advocates asserting school choice as a contemporary stage of the nation’s long struggle for civil rights. I argue that as DeVos championed her cause, she repurposed this right from a civil right seeking justice and equality to a property right serving privilege and
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Rhetorics of Democracy in the Americas Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2023-05-08 Romeo García (he/him/his)
Published in Quarterly Journal of Speech (Vol. 109, No. 2, 2023)
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An uncanny architrope: impossible ghosts of empire at the Brontë Parsonage Museum Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2023-05-04 Faber McAlister (they/them)
ABSTRACT This article offers the “architrope” as a means for apprehending rhetorical figures on a symbolic landscape (or “tropography”). I argue that ethical critique of public memory places requires more than reading visual representations and envisioning resistive viewer agencies. Inspired by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s declaration that it should not be possible to remember Victorian England’s women
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Public Memory, Race, and Heritage Tourism of Early America Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2023-04-23 Anthony J. Irizarry (he/him/his)
Published in Quarterly Journal of Speech (Vol. 109, No. 2, 2023)
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Whistleblower epideictic and the rejuvenation of the fourth estate Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2023-04-04 Alan Chu (he/him)
ABSTRACT The historical partnership between whistleblowers and journalists has produced some of the most consequential news stories of the 20th and 21st centuries. However, this partnership has also experienced deep ruptures, most notably after the attacks on 9/11 that reordered the fourth estate’s (the press) approach to publishing stories on national intelligence and politically powerful figures
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Editorial Statement Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2023-03-22 Stacey K. Sowards Editor, Toniesha L. Taylor Book Review Editor
Published in Quarterly Journal of Speech (Vol. 109, No. 1, 2023)
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The racial shock of abolitionist John Brown Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2023-03-22 Jay P. Childers (he/him), Lisa M. Corrigan (she/her)
ABSTRACT Abolitionist John Brown remains a cultural touchstone over 160 years after his execution for leading the Harpers Ferry Raid in October 1859, largely because that event and Brown’s behavior after it played a part in leading the nation into civil war. To understand that legacy and his role in sparking the Civil War, this article examines the discursive field that animated around Brown within
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A tour de force of Mexican rhetoricity and racialization Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2023-02-20 Nina Maria Lozano
Published in Quarterly Journal of Speech (Vol. 109, No. 1, 2023)
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Racialized temporalities and rhetorical violence Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2023-02-05 Lisa A. Flores
ABSTRACT Reflecting upon the words of Professors De Genova, Lozano, and Yam, this essay suggests that rhetorical scholars attend to the intersections between rhetorical violence and rhetorical temporalities. The varied projects that emerge in this forum together suggest that the racialized temporalities of violence rely upon temporalities of relentless and repetition. Together, relentlessness and repetition
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“Look, an Illegal Alien!”: the rhetorics of migrant “Illegality” and the racialization of Mexicanness Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2023-02-02 Nicholas De Genova
ABSTRACT There is a sociopolitical and juridical regime that I have designated in terms of “the legal production of Mexican/migrant ‘illegality’,” which is never separable from a larger discursive formation of migrant “illegality,” which has always also been constitutive to the (re-)racialization of “Mexican”-ness in the United States. As a scholar of rhetoric, Lisa Flores amplifies and illuminates
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The whiteness of LBJ’s rhetoric: The appointment of Vicente T. Ximenes to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2022-12-15 José G. Izaguirre III
ABSTRACT This article presents a racial rhetorical critique of Lyndon B. Johnson’s presidential rhetoric. Drawing from examinations of drafts, memos, and proclamations, I argue that LBJ in particular and the administration more generally utilized the appointment of Vicente T. Ximenes to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and his naming as the chair of the Inter-Agency Committee on Mexican
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Rhetorics of Race and Religion on the Christian Right: Barack Obama and the War on Terror Quarterly Journal of Speech (IF 2.313) Pub Date : 2022-12-07 Matthew L. Parnell
Published in Quarterly Journal of Speech (Vol. 108, No. 4, 2022)