Jennifer Beech: 2 books

Rhetorics of Whiteness

Postracial Hauntings in Popular Culture, Social Media, and Education

by Annette Powell, Gregory Jay, Christine Farris
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2016

Winner, CCCC Outstanding Book Award in the Edited Collection Category, 2018 With the election of our first black president, many Americans began to argue that we had finally ended racism, claiming that we now live in a postracial era. Yet near-daily news reports regularly invoke white as a...

Reflections From the Wrong Side of the Tracks

Class, Identity, and the Working Class Experience in Academe

by Stephen L. Muzzatti, Vincent C. Samarco, Phyllis L. Baker
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2005

In this edited collection of narrative-based, critically situated essays, each contributor explores how class has affected his/her personal and academic lives. The collection is divided into three sections: i) narratives that critique the meritocracy; ii) narratives that trace the effects of middle...