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Antisemitism and the White Supremacist Imaginary: Conflations and Contradictions in Composition and Rhetoric

Antisemitism and the White Supremacist Imaginary: Conflations and Contradictions in Composition and Rhetoric

Grayson, Mara Lee
Horning, Alice S.

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Series: Studies in Composition and Rhetoric, Book 20

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1433192977
ISBN13: 9781433192975
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Published: Jan 26 2023
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.49 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

In Antisemitism and the White Supremacist Imaginary: Conflations and Contradictions in Composition and Rhetoric, Mara Lee Grayson calls attention to the complicity of academic institutions and the discipline(s) of rhetoric, composition, and writing studies in the simultaneous perpetuation and denial of anti-Jewish racism. Despite the persistence of antisemitism and Christian hegemony in the United States and its academic institutions, and despite a growing body of antiracist and anti-oppressive scholarship, antisemitism remains largely unaddressed in disciplinary scholarship, curricula, and pedagogy. This book begins to fill that gap by exploring how the rhetoric through which Jewish identity is conceptualized and weaponized by the white supremacist imaginary essentializes Jewish identities and obscures the racist aims and character of antisemitism. Drawing upon rhetorical analysis, personal narrative, and original phenomenological research, Grayson highlights how deeply embedded antisemitic ideologies impact the lived experiences of Jewish teachers, students, and scholars, and perpetuate white supremacy. This book illuminates the experiential, rhetorical, historical, political, and racial dynamics of antisemitism, exposes the limitations of existing discourses of whiteness and (anti)racism, and gestures toward a future in which, through more nuanced and productive discourse, we can better support Jewish educators and students and better engage Jewish members of the discipline as accomplices in antiracism.

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