Kyle R. King | Penn State Altoona I. Introduction In the preface to Beyond a Boundary (1963), the Trinidadian scholar and intellectual C. L. R. James asked a question that helped dispel the belief that sport was a pastime separate from larger issues of politics, identity, and culture: “What do they know of cricket who only cricket know?“(xxi).
Deflective Whiteness weaves together an anti-essentialist analytic across mediated rhetorics; its transmedia methodology is a novel and notable approach to thinking through the intertextual nature of racial formation in the era of “new racism” by studying the ideological functions of decontextualization, the superficial representation of Black and Latinx identity politics used to secure White dominance.
We argue that calling attention to how workplace writing is constructed in rhetorical contexts is a useful way to disrupt the seemingly “common sense” logic of professional participation. The first part of this article introduces the framework’s questions and explains the purpose of the framework. The second part of the article describes two writing assignments
