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- Title
The Whiteness of Silence: A Critical Autoethnographic Tale of a Strategic Rhetoric.
- Authors
Potter, Jennifer E.
- Abstract
Nakayama and Krizeck's essay, "A Strategic Rhetoric of Whiteness" offers an understanding of Whiteness as cultural praxis operating beyond the narrow understanding of mere skin color. While scholars have added valuable contributions to the study of Whiteness, the discussion of the "strategic rhetoric" still lacks examples of embodiment. This essay seeks to demonstrate the deployment of Whiteness by describing a specific moment in which I was complicit in the deployment of Whiteness using the strategy of silence. This essay enumerates the machinations of Whiteness hidden in a seemingly mundane performance and contributes to an ongoing conversation about problematizing Whiteness.
- Subjects
RACIAL identity of white people; AUTOETHNOGRAPHY; SILENCE; ETHNICITY
- Publication
Qualitative Report, 2015, Vol 20, Issue 9, p1434
- ISSN
1052-0147
- Publication type
Essay