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Dr. Christopher House Publishes Article on the Rhetorical Function of Racist MemorabiliaContributed by Laurie Arliss on 05/18/17
Dr. House grounds his discussion in detailed examination of the Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia (JCM) at Ferris State University. JCM is examined as a counter-museum and open resource to the public that encourages visitor participation and dialogic analysis through a moral lens that challenges dominant discourses from the Trump administration and sites of public memory that employ either symbolic annihilation or trivialization/deflection as their main rhetorical strategies in depicting the legacy of America’s racial past. |
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An article by Communication Studies Assistant Professor Chris House will appear in Volume 7 of the Journal of Contemporary Rhetoric. Titled, "Remembering Jim Crow in the Age of Trump: An Analysis of the Rhetorical Function of the Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia," the essay analyzes how racist images and artifacts are being used to create a more honest record of public memory of the Jim Crown period.