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Public Memory, Race, and Ethnicity' provides excellent examples of how public memory materializes and shapes identities and experiences over the course of several decades. Essentially, these essays demonstrate the rhetorical, psychological, and affective force of white supremacy in American public memory. [...] As a corrective to reading the past optimistically, this book calls rhetorical scholars to attend to the more difficult and affective qualities of public memory, race and ethnicity, tragedy and psychology. A welcomed addition to the field of rhetoric, this collection implies that to address complications of racial and ethnic identity in public memory one must feel the past. - Jenniffer Heusel, Rhetoric and Public Affairs, 16:1 (2013) 740-743. This collection of essays moves rhetorical and cultural studies in new and important directions, situating the study of race and ethnicity within public contexts circumscribed by materiality and historicity. Blending the voices of emerging and established scholars, Public Memory, Race and Ethnicity offers powerful and provocative analyses of the ways in which identity and difference shape, and are shaped by, the visual and verbal dynamics of space and place that define and constrain borders of being, and margins of memory. -Mark L. McPhail, University of Wisconsin, USA

'''Public Memory, Race, and Ethnicity' provides excellent examples of how public memory materializes and shapes identities and experiences over the course of several decades. Essentially, these essays demonstrate the rhetorical, psychological, and affective force of white supremacy in American public memory. [...] As a corrective to reading the past optimistically, this book calls rhetorical scholars to attend to the more difficult and affective qualities of public memory, race and ethnicity, tragedy and psychology. A welcomed addition to the field of rhetoric, this collection implies that to address complications of racial and ethnic identity in public memory one must feel the past.''- Jenniffer Heusel, Rhetoric and Public Affairs, 16:1 (2013) 740-743.""This collection of essays moves rhetorical and cultural studies in new and important directions, situating the study of race and ethnicity within public contexts circumscribed by materiality and historicity. Blending the voices of emerging and established scholars, Public Memory, Race and Ethnicity offers powerful and provocative analyses of the ways in which identity and difference shape, and are shaped by, the visual and verbal dynamics of space and place that define and constrain borders of being, and margins of memory.""—Mark L. McPhail, University of Wisconsin, USA

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G. Mitchell Reyes (PhD, Pennsylvania State University) is Assistant Professor of Communication and Director of the Memory Studies Institute at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon, USA. His work has been published in Quarterly Journal of Speech, Rhetoric & Public Affairs, Philosophy and Rhetoric, and Rhetoric Review. He is also the co-editor of Global Memoryscapes (University of Alabama Press).

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