The rhetoric of racism revisited
Subtitle: reparations or separation?
By: Mark Lawrence McPhail
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
Subjects: Racism; Racism in language; Prejudices; Communication; Race relations
Description: 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. Thoroughly discusses essentialism and racial difference, theories of complicity and coherence, and the theory of racism as a problem of psychiatry. [back cover].
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-213) and index