Byron B Craig
Biographic Data
| ID | 4079001 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Byron B Craig |
| GIVEN NAMES | Byron B |
| FAMILY NAME | Craig |
| SIGNATURE | CRAIG B B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Illinois State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Ruse of Reconstruction; or Notes on America’s Perpetual Abdication of Racial Equality
A central component of American inequality has been the persistence of the racial wealth gap between White and Black Americans. In this essay we seek to understand how the racial wealth gap has been rhetorically framed as an unsolvable problem by examining the arguments opponents of structural reforms in the pursuit of racial equality have advanced. We argue that opponents of racial equality and justice have relied on a two-part rhetorical strate…
Remembering Redlining: Trauma, Anti-Blackness, and Afro-Pessimistic Affect in Them
Scholars of public memory have long recognized the importance of popular culture as a site in America’s memory infrastructure. In this paper we seek to contribute to this bourgeoning scholarship by advancing an analysis of the way the Amazon Prime series Them strategically remembers the traumatic violence of America’s racial past. Through its skillful use of allegory and the Black horror genre, Them offers an Afro-pessimistic rebuke of America’s …
Prophetic dissent in dark times: The new Poor People’s Campaign and the rhetoric of national redemption
In this paper, we offer an analysis of an important social movement challenging the fantasy of Christian nationalism: the new Poor People's Campaign, and specifically the rhetoric of the Bishop Dr. William J. Barber II.We argue that Barber's rhetoric represents a source of dissent against Christian nationalism through his strategic use of the jeremiad.Barber's progressive jeremiad offers a distinctively moral narrative that recovers the radical C…
Reconstituting digital counterpublics in times of crisis: The case of the United States and the Republic of Georgia
Since the advent of social media at the turn of the 21st century, scholars of communication, cultural studies, and media studies have long been invested in the question of the relationship between social media platforms and the discursive formation of counterpublics for social movement mobilization. In this article, we seek to pose a new question for scholarly inquiry: How do citizens leverage the tools of social media platforms to reconstitute c…
Restaging the Anthropocene: Laudato Si’ and the Rhetorical Politics of the Universal
In his 2015 encyclical, Pope Francis advanced five edicts on global climate change. Drawing on the work of Judith Butler and Kathryn Yusoff, I seek to contribute to our understanding of contemporary religious and environmental communication by examining the complex racial dynamics of the Anthropocene and the use of universals for political claims to action and justice. Pope Francis’s Laudato Si’, I argue, advances a Catholic rhetoric of the Anthr…
Visual Profiling as Biopolitics: Or, Notes on Policing in Post-Racial #AmeriKKKa
This essay examines the crisis of American policing through a close reading and critique of the visual rhetoric that circulated in the aftermath of Michael Brown's untimely death in Ferguson, Missouri. By drawing on recent work in visual and media criticism, Black Studies, and Foucault, we analyze and critique what we call 'vernacular visuality' as a site in the unfolding politics of racial representation. Because practices of policing cannot be …
Reconstituting digital counterpublics in times of crisis: The case of the United States and the Republic of Georgia
Since the advent of social media at the turn of the 21st century, scholars of communication, cultural studies, and media studies have long been invested in the question of the relationship between social media platforms and the discursive formation of counterpublics for social movement mobilization. In this article, we seek to pose a new question for scholarly inquiry: How do citizens leverage the tools of social media platforms to reconstitute c…
Visual Profiling as Biopolitics: Or, Notes on Policing in Post-Racial #AmeriKKKa
This essay examines the crisis of American policing through a close reading and critique of the visual rhetoric that circulated in the aftermath of Michael Brown's untimely death in Ferguson, Missouri. By drawing on recent work in visual and media criticism, Black Studies, and Foucault, we analyze and critique what we call 'vernacular visuality' as a site in the unfolding politics of racial representation. Because practices of policing cannot be …
Visual Profiling as Biopolitics: Or, Notes on Policing in Post-Racial #AmeriKKKa
This essay examines the crisis of American policing through a close reading and critique of the visual rhetoric that circulated in the aftermath of Michael Brown's untimely death in Ferguson, Missouri. By drawing on recent work in visual and media criticism, Black Studies, and Foucault, we analyze and critique what we call 'vernacular visuality' as a site in the unfolding politics of racial representation. Because practices of policing cannot be …
Restaging the Anthropocene: Laudato Si’ and the Rhetorical Politics of the Universal
In his 2015 encyclical, Pope Francis advanced five edicts on global climate change. Drawing on the work of Judith Butler and Kathryn Yusoff, I seek to contribute to our understanding of contemporary religious and environmental communication by examining the complex racial dynamics of the Anthropocene and the use of universals for political claims to action and justice. Pope Francis’s Laudato Si’, I argue, advances a Catholic rhetoric of the Anthr…
Reconstituting digital counterpublics in times of crisis: The case of the United States and the Republic of Georgia
Since the advent of social media at the turn of the 21st century, scholars of communication, cultural studies, and media studies have long been invested in the question of the relationship between social media platforms and the discursive formation of counterpublics for social movement mobilization. In this article, we seek to pose a new question for scholarly inquiry: How do citizens leverage the tools of social media platforms to reconstitute c…
Prophetic dissent in dark times: The new Poor People’s Campaign and the rhetoric of national redemption
In this paper, we offer an analysis of an important social movement challenging the fantasy of Christian nationalism: the new Poor People's Campaign, and specifically the rhetoric of the Bishop Dr. William J. Barber II.We argue that Barber's rhetoric represents a source of dissent against Christian nationalism through his strategic use of the jeremiad.Barber's progressive jeremiad offers a distinctively moral narrative that recovers the radical C…
Remembering Redlining: Trauma, Anti-Blackness, and Afro-Pessimistic Affect in Them
Scholars of public memory have long recognized the importance of popular culture as a site in America’s memory infrastructure. In this paper we seek to contribute to this bourgeoning scholarship by advancing an analysis of the way the Amazon Prime series Them strategically remembers the traumatic violence of America’s racial past. Through its skillful use of allegory and the Black horror genre, Them offers an Afro-pessimistic rebuke of America’s …
The Ruse of Reconstruction; or Notes on America’s Perpetual Abdication of Racial Equality
A central component of American inequality has been the persistence of the racial wealth gap between White and Black Americans. In this essay we seek to understand how the racial wealth gap has been rhetorically framed as an unsolvable problem by examining the arguments opponents of structural reforms in the pursuit of racial equality have advanced. We argue that opponents of racial equality and justice have relied on a two-part rhetorical strate…
Sociology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Race, History, and American Society (3 works) · Democracy (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Literature (2 works)