Research Catalog

Title

Rhetoric, race, religion, and the Charleston shootings : was blind but now I see / edited by Sean Patrick O'Rourke and Melody Lehn.

Publication

• Lanham : Lexington Books, [2020]
• ©2020

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Details

Additional Authors

• O'Rourke, Sean Patrick
• Lehn, Melody
• Christie, Luke D.
• Davis, Patricia G. (Patricia Gail), 1970-
• Frank, David A.
• Franz, Margaret
• Grano, Daniel A.
• Hunter, Donn
• Lewis, Camille Kaminski

Description

x, 261 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

This book considers the 2015 Charleston mass shooting from a rhetorical perspective and offers an appraisal of the discourses that cradled and emerged from it. It argues that Charleston was different from other mass shootings in America and that the differences can be heard and seen in that rhetoric.

Series Statement

Rhetoric, race, and religion

Uniform Title

Rhetoric, race, and religion.

Alternative Title

Rhetoric, race, religion, & the Charleston shootings

Subject

• 2000-2099
• Mass shootings > South Carolina > Charleston > History > 21st century > Case studies
• Hate crimes > South Carolina > Charleston > History > 21st century
• Mass shootings > Social aspects > United States
• Racism > South Carolina > Charleston > History > 21st century
• African Americans > Crimes against > History > South Carolina > Charleston > 21st century
• Criminal behavior > United States
• Crime analysis > United States
• African Americans > Crimes against
• Crime analysis
• Criminal behavior
• Hate crimes
• Mass shootings
• Racism
• South Carolina > Charleston
• United States

Genre/Form

• Case studies.
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: was blind but now I see / Sean Patrick O'Rourke and Melody Lehn -- The killer's manifesto: rhetorics of the lost cause and race warfare : 1. "The south shall rise again": setting the lost cause myth in future tense in Dylann Roof's manifesto / Margaret Franz -- 2. Charleston and the postracial logics of "race war" / Daniel A. Grano -- Gun control: the debates that did not happen and the language of lynching : 3. The racial politics of gun violence: a brief rhetorical history / Craig Rood -- 4. The Charleston church shooting and the public practice of forgetting lynching / Samuel P. Perry -- Civic eulogies and exhortations: the responses of Barack and Michelle Obama : 5. The act of forgiveness in Barack Obama's eulogy for the honorable Reverend Clementa Pinckney, Charleston, South Carolina, June 26, 2015 / David A. Frank -- 6. Challenging the myth of postracialism: exhortations, strategic ambiguity, and Michelle Obama's response to the Charleston killings / Melody Lehn -- Rebels and flags: the rhetorics of heritage, hate, continuity, and change : 7. In the Aftermath: the rhetoric of heritage and the limits of the mythical past / Luke D. Christie -- 8. The rebel flag and the rhetoric of protest: a case study in public will building / Sean Patrick O'Rourke -- Neo-confederate monuments: rhetorics of contested public memory : 9. "Remove not the ancient landmarks": making the confederate distortions of religion apparent / Camille K. Lewis -- 10. In the aftermath: memorials of the neo-confederacy, symbols of oppression, and the rhetoric of removal / Patricia G. Davis -- Conclusion: Zenith and Nadir / Donna Hunter

Call Number

Sc E 20-636

ISBN

• 9781498550611
• 1498550614

LCCN

2019950365

OCLC

1120788550

Title

Rhetoric, race, religion, and the Charleston shootings : was blind but now I see / edited by Sean Patrick O'Rourke and Melody Lehn.

Publisher

Lanham : Lexington Books, [2020]

Copyright Date

©2020

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Rhetoric, race, and religion

Rhetoric, race, and religion.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

2000-2099

Added Author

O'Rourke, Sean Patrick, editor.

Lehn, Melody, editor.

Christie, Luke D., contributor.

Davis, Patricia G. (Patricia Gail), 1970- contributor.

Frank, David A., contributor.

Franz, Margaret, contributor.

Grano, Daniel A., contributor.

Hunter, Donn, contributor.

Lewis, Camille Kaminski, contributor.

Research Call Number

Sc E 20-636