The Racial Politics of Circulation: Trumpicons and White Supremacist <i>Doxai</i>

Laurie Gries ; Phil Bratta Oklahoma State University Oklahoma City

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.

Journal
Rhetoric Review
Published
2019-10-02
DOI
10.1080/07350198.2019.1655306
Open Access
Closed

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