The Rhetoric of Racism Revisited ─ Reparations or Separation?

This text is a revised edition of The Rhetoric of Racism (University Press of America, 1994). McPhail (communication, Miami U. in Oxford, Ohio) explores ways that African and European Americans develop racial realities through discourse. An updated version of the first edition's text is followed by new material on the politics of complicity, and the relationship between rhetoric and race; a comparison of the rhetorics of Louis Farrakhan and Wallace Muhammad; a discussion of Farrakhan's discourse as an example of the shift from guilt provocation to shame provocation in African American rhetoric; and an examination of whether or not any rhetorical strategy can effectively address "the intrasigence of racism, and the diffidence of whiteness." For communication scholars, undergraduate and graduate students. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Mark Lawrence McPhail is chair of the Department of Communication at Miami University of Ohio.