[KB] Book Announcement: White Nationalism and Faith: Statements and Counter-Statements on American Identity

[Camille K. Lewis]

Camille Lewis, Camille.Lewis at furman.edu

As you are planning your special topics courses on Public Discourse for
Spring 2021, I would like to suggest my new anthology from Peter Lang,
White Nationalism and Faith: Statements and Counter-Statements on American
Identity.

According to Kenneth Burke, every idea houses its opposite. "Heresies and
orthodoxies will always be changing places," he imagined, "but whatever the
minority view happens to be at any given time, one must consider it as
'counter.'" In other words, every tradition contains its own critique.
Ideas are always in dialogue, bridging gaps that we may not have known
existed until the bridges were built. And alongside those bridges are other
implied ways to transfer and create meaning. To foreground that pendulum
and address our contemporary political climate, White Nationalism and
Faith: Statements and Counter-Statements on American Identity includes
American texts which wield religious arguments in order to affirm or
dismantle white supremacy. William Jennings Bryan, Billy Sunday, and Bob
Jones as well as Barack Obama, Phil Snider, and Mitch Landrieu are just a
few of the voices in dialogue. This anthology is designed for the
upper-level undergraduate or master's student so that they can explore how
American rhetors since the Civil War have constituted their white
nationalism through religious rhetoric. With this anthology of statements
and their contemporaneous counter-statements, students of public address
can craft and polish the same serious but comedic lens as Kenneth Burke
imagined in the twentieth century.

Available on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/White-Nationalism-Faith-Statements-Counter-Statements-dp-1433170744/dp/1433170744/

Available at Peter Lang: https://www.peterlang.com/view/title/71787

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Camille K. Lewis, Ph.D.
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