The Rhetoric of Racism Revisited Reparations or Separation?

by McPhail, Mark Lawrence

• ISBN13: 9780742517196
• ISBN10: 0742517195
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-12-18
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

In this updated and significantly expanded edition of his The Rhetoric of Racism, Mark McPhail responds to subsequent critiques and advances in scholarship. Like the earlier text, Revisited looks at the rhetorical dynamics of racism--how, in addition to social and material structures and institutions, language can be a cause and facilitator of racism. Revised introductions and four new chapters add thorough discussions of essentialism and racial difference; theories of complicity and coherence, including critical applications; the theory of racism as a problem of psychiatry; and perspectives on contemporary racial discourse. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Author Biography

Mark Lawrence McPhail is Chair and Professor of Communication at Miami University in Oxford Ohio.

Table of Contents

Preface to the New Edition	vii
Preface to the First Edition	xi
Acknowledgments	xv
Part I The Rhetoric of Racism
Introduction: In the Shadow of the Word	3	(18)
From Socrates to South Africa	21	(18)
Language and Oppression	39	(18)
Racism in Black and White	57	(18)
Race as Symbolic Reality	75	(20)
From Complicity to Coherence	95	(24)
Part II Revisiting the Rhetoric of Racism
Introduction: Revisiting the Rhetoric of Racism	119	(10)
The Politics of Complicity	129	(18)
Re-Signing the Opposition	147	(14)
The Hope That Hate Produced	161	(24)
Conclusion: The Rhetoric of Our Times	185	(16)
References	201	(14)
Index	215	(6)
About the Author	221