Rhetoric of Racism Revisited

In this updated and significantly expanded edition of his <I>The Rhetoric of Racism</I> Mark McPhail responds to subsequent critiques and advances in scholarship. Like the earlier text <I>Revisited</I> looks at the rhetorical dynamics of racism-how in addition to social and material structures and institutions language can be a cause and facilitator of racism. Revised introductions and four new chapters add thorough discussions of essentialism and racial difference; theories of complicity and coherence including critical applications; the theory of racism as a problem of psychiatry; and perspectives on contemporary racial discourse.