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BOOKS
REBIRTHING A NATION: WHITE
WOMEN, IDENTITY POLITICS,
AND THE INTERNET
WENDY K . Z. ANDERSON (PHD LA’09)
266 PAGES; $30
UNIVERSITY PRESS OF MISSISSIPPI
Anderson details how white nationalist and alt-right women refine racist
rhetoric and web design as a means
of protection and simultaneous
instantiation of white supremacy.
TELL THEM WHAT
YOU WANT
LAVERNE (THOMPSON)
DEMOCRACY AND THE MEDIA:
THE YEAR IN C-SPAN ARCHIVES
RESEARCH, VOLUME 7
MERRIT T-GORDON (MS HHS’86)
ROBERT X . BROWNING
AND BEAU GROSSCUP
330 PAGES; $49.99
PURDUE UNIVERSITY PRESS
224 PAGES; $16.95
CULICIDAE PRESS
A coming-of-age story of
an African American girl,
Tell Them What You Want
invites readers into a world of
family, relationships, heroism,
determination, and loss
of cultures.
The latest volume in the C-SPAN
archives research series covers
Trump political rallies, congressional
references of late-night comedy,
responses of African American congresswomen to COVID-19 bills, and
congressional attacks on the media
through floor speeches in the House
of Representatives and the Senate.
ROUGH TACTICS: BLACK
PERFORMANCE IN
POLITICAL SPECTACLES,
1877–1932
BURIED TRUTHS AND
THE HYATT SKYWALKS:
THE LEGACY OF AMERICA’S
EPIC STRUCTURAL FAILURE
MARK A. JOHNSON (LA’09)
RICHARD A. SERRANO
250 PAGES; $30
UNIVERSITY PRESS OF MISSISSIPPI
460 PAGES; $29.99
PURDUE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Johnson examines three notable
cases of Black participation in
the spectacles of politics and
explains how white politicians
and Black performers wielded
and manipulated racist
stereotypes and Lost Cause
mythology to achieve their
respective goals.
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P U R D U E A LUM N U S
Serrano explores America’s worst—
and wholly avoidable—structural
engineering disaster: the sudden
collapse of two skywalks at Kansas
City’s Hyatt hotel in 1981. Learn
what went wrong, how it could
have been avoided, and what
effects persist today.
