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Brendon M. Soltis – Journal Committed to Social Change on Race and Ethnicity, 2024
In this study, I investigate how the rhetoric used in university responses to anti-Asian violence maintained institutional status quos to protect whiteness in higher education. Using whiteness as futurity as a theoretical framework, I employed document analysis to analyze 54 statements in response to the tragic mass shooting in Atlanta in March of…
Descriptors: Responses, Racism, Asian Americans, Asians
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Moore, Mark P. – Communication Quarterly, 1994
Identifies and discusses divergent synecdochal representations of the handgun as vital to both the construction and maintenance of competing social realities (handgun as threatened liberty and handgun as threatened life) in the debate over the Brady Bill. Demonstrates how such representations serve as divergent rhetorical constructs for competing…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Discourse Analysis, Federal Legislation, Gun Control