Essays and Memoir
Minor Troubles: Racial Figurations of Youth Sexuality and Childhood’s Queerness
Erin J. Rand$36.95 $29.56 Paper
Focuses on the rhetorical process of figuration as instrumental in creating cultural ideas about childhood, providing a road map for understanding alarmist discourses about children, race, gender, and sexuality.
Rhetorical Economies of Whiteness: Exploring the Intersections of Power, Privilege, and Race
Edited by Robert Asen and Casey Ryan Kelly$37.95 $30.36 Paper
Examines the interplay of rhetoric, whiteness, and economics, illustrating how economic and class structures incentivize adherence to whiteness as an identity formation and form of symbolic capital.
Just Kids: Youth Activism and Rhetorical Agency
Risa Applegarth$32.95 $26.36 Paper
Analyzes cases in which children and teens push back against public discourse that treats them as symbols rather than as effective organizers, speakers, writers, and demonstrators.
Grassroots Activisms: Public Rhetorics in Localized Contexts
Edited by Lisa L. Phillips, Sarah Warren-Riley, and Julie Collins Bates$34.95 $27.96 Paper
Combines activist profiles and scholarly essays to amplify and analyze the tactics of grassroots activists working locally to intervene in social injustices.
Through Fences
Frederick Luis Aldama and Oscar Garza$17.95 $14.36 Paper
Short comics about immigration and life on the US–Mexico border.
Muslim Comics and Warscape Witnessing
Studies in Comics and Cartoons
Esra Mirze Santesso$34.95 $27.96 Paper
As the first major study of comics by and about Muslim people, explores how graphic narratives from within and outside the Middle East articulate Muslim subjectivities.
Deflective Whiteness: Co-Opting Black and Latinx Identity Politics
Hannah Noel$32.95 $26.36 Paper
Details the appropriation of social justice rhetoric to claim Whiteness as an aggrieved social status, enabling White supremacy and deepening racial inequities.
American Magnitude: Hemispheric Vision and Public Feeling in the United States
Christa J. Olson$29.95 $23.96 Paper
Winner, 2022 NCA Marie Hochmuth Nichols Award
Examines how imagery and rhetoric of pan-American grandeur from 1845 to 1950 used Latin America as a foil for creating US national identity and a particular American way of feeling.
A History of Hate in Ohio: Then and Now
Michael E. Brooks and Bob Fitrakis$24.95 $19.96 Paper
Presents the first comprehensive study of white supremacy and hate groups in the Buckeye State, from the colonial era to the present day.
American Catastrophe: Fundamentalism, Climate Change, Gun Rights, and the Rhetoric of Donald J. Trump
Luke Winslow$32.95 $26.36 Paper
Explores case studies of Christian fundamentalism, anti-environmentalism, gun rights messaging, and the Trump administration to understand how appeals to catastrophe are used to unite Americans.
Awful Archives: Conspiracy Theory, Rhetoric, and Acts of Evidence
Jenny Rice$34.95 $27.96 Paper
An exploration of exaggerated cases of conspiracy theories which helps to reveal why traditional modes of argument fail against unwarranted, unsound, or untrue evidence.
Apocalypse Man: The Death Drive and the Rhetoric of White Masculine Victimhood
Casey Ryan Kelly$32.95 $26.36 Paper
A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
Examines how and why death, victimhood, and fatalism have come to underwrite the constitution of contemporary white masculinity.
Vaccine Rhetorics
Heidi Yoston Lawrence$29.95 $23.96 Paper
Finalist, 2021 ARSTM Book Award
Honorable Mention, 2021 CCCC Best Book in Technical or Scientific Communication
Addresses the underlying rhetoric of vaccination debates by examining the full spectrum of viewpoints to develop a nuanced way forward.
Tales from la Vida: A Latinx Comics Anthology
Frederick Luis Aldama, Ed.$17.95 $14.36 Paper
One-of-a-kind collection of comics that sheds light on Latina/o/x experiences, exploring language, culture, history, and more.
Reality Bites: Rhetoric and the Circulation of Truth Claims in U.S. Political Culture
Dana L. Cloud$34.95 $27.96 Paper
Explores truth claims in contemporary U.S. political rhetoric and the viability of an empirical standard for political truths.