The Racial Politics of Circulation: Trumpicons and White Supremacist Doxai. Issue 4 (2nd October 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Gries, Laurie; Bratta, Phil
• Is Part Of: Rhetoric review. Volume 38:Issue 4(2019)
• Page Start: 417
• Page End: 431
• Publication Date: 2019-10-02
• Subjects: Rhetoric -- Periodicals; 808.005
• DOI: 10.1080/07350198.2019.1655306
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0735-0198

Abstract

Abstract : This article presents the racial politics of circulation as a critical concept for elucidating how whiteness, nationhood, and doxa intertwine to reinforce and amplify white supremacy within a context of white nationalist postracialism. As a case study, the authors investigate how two popular slogans associated with Donald Trump drive the production and circulation of digital doxicons called Trumpicons and how such Trumpicons, in turn, feed back into a socio-political loop of white supremacist logics. In studying how Trumpicons become embroiled in such racial politics of circulation, the authors disclose how new media images contribute to an affective economy of whiteness in contemporary American culture.