Interrogating the Communicative Power of Whiteness

Dawn Marie D. McIntosh is an independent scholar located in Colorado, USA. Dreama G. Moon is a professor of communication at California State University, San Marcos, USA Thomas K. Nakayama is a professor of communication studies at Northeastern University, USA

1. Introduction: Introducing 21st Century Whiteness or "Everything Old is New Again" (Dawn Marie D. McIntosh, Dreama G. Moon, and Thomas K. Nakayama) Part I: Intersectional Readings of Whiteness through Bodies of Color 2. Asian American Performance in White Supremacist Representation (Kent Ono and Alison Yeh Cheung) 3. Queerness as Strategic Whiteness: A Queer Asian American Critique of Peter Le (Shinsuke Eguchi) 4. Reverberations of Familial and Cultural Histories: Performances With and Against Whiteness (Charles LuLevitt and Bernadette Marie Calafell) Part II. Intersectional Readings of Whiteness through White Bodies 5. Black Women’s Intellectualism and Deconstructing Donald Trump’s Toxic White Masculinity (Rachel Alicia Griffin) 6. From White Ladies to White Trash Mamas: Performances of White Femininity (Dawn Marie D. McIntosh) 7. Digging In: White Trash, Trailer Trash, and the (im)Mobility of Whiteness (Tasha R. Dunn) 8. A Forgotten History of Eugenics: Reimagining Whiteness and Disability in the Case of Carrie Buck (Kathryn Hobson and Sophia B. Margulies) Part III: Intersectional Readings of Whiteness through Discursive Strategies 9. Monstrous Authenticity: Trump’s Whiteness (Rachel E. Dubrofsky) 10. Triumphal Whiteness and the Coloring of Terror in 21st Century Counter-Terrorist Rhetorics (Marouf Hasian and S. Marek Muller) 11. Nightmares of Whiteness: Dreams and Deportability in the Age of Trump (Lisa A. Flores and Logan Rae Gomez) 12. "The Colonial Jesus:" Deconstructing White Christianity (Gloria Nziba Pindi and Antonio Tomas De La Garza)