{"product_id":"rhetoric-race-religion-and-the-charleston-shootings-9781498550611","title":"Rhetoric Race Religion and the Charleston","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book uses the 2015 Charleston shooting as a case study to analyze the connections between race, rhetoric, religion, and the growing trend of mass gun violence in the United States. The authors claim that this analysis fills a gap in rhetorical scholarship that can lead to increased understanding of the causes and motivations of these crimes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Was Blind but Now I See: Rhetoric, Race, and Religion in the Charleston Shootings Sean Patrick O’Rourke Melody Lehn  Part I: The Killer’s Manifesto: Rhetorics of the Lost Cause and Race Warfare  1\t“The South Shall Rise Again”: Setting the Lost Cause Myth in Future Tense in Dylann Roof’s Manifesto  Margaret Franz 2\tCharleston and the Postracial Logics of “Race War” Daniel A. Grano  Part II: Gun Control: The Debates That Did Not Happen and the Language of Lynching  3\tThe Racial Politics of Gun Violence: A Brief Rhetorical History Craig Rood 4\tThe Charleston Church Shooting and the Public Practice of Forgetting Lynching  Samuel P. Perry  Part III: Civic Eulogies and Exhortations: The Responses of Barack and Michelle Obama   5\tThe Act of Forgiveness in Barack Obama’s Eulogy for the Honorable Reverend  Clementa Pinckney, Charleston, South Carolina, June 26, 2015 David A. Frank 6\tChallenging the Myth of Postracialism: Exhortation, Strategic Ambiguity, and Michelle Obama’s Response to the Charleston Killings Melody Lehn  Part IV: Rebels and Flags: The Rhetorics of Heritage, Hate, Continuity, and Change  7\tIn the Aftermath: The Rhetoric of Heritage and the Limits of the Mythical Past \tLuke D. Christie 8\tThe Rebel Flag and the Rhetoric of Protest: A Case Study in Public Will Building Sean Patrick O’Rourke  Part V: Neo-Confederate Monuments: Rhetorics of Contested Public Memory  9\t“Remove Not the Ancient Landmark”: Making the Confederate Distortions of Religion Apparent \tCamille K. Lewis 10\tIn the Aftermath: Memorials of the Neo-Confederacy, Symbols of Oppression, and the Rhetoric of Removal Patricia G. Davis  Conclusion: Zenith and Nadir Donna Hunter","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040754696535,"sku":"9781498550611","price":85.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781498550611.jpg?v=1750947735","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/rhetoric-race-religion-and-the-charleston-shootings-9781498550611","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}