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Abstract This introduction provides a brief context for the rebooting of the journal, including a history of the journal and the controversy that led to its reimagining, and offers brief synopses of the individual essays included within.

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Rhetoric & Public Affairs
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2021-03-01
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10.14321/rhetpublaffa.24.1-2.0001
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  1. 1. Details on the controversy can be found here: https://www.natcom.org/distinguished-scholars. The full text…
  2. 2. Thanks to Stephen H. Browne and David Zarefsky for their help, and special thanks to John Murphy for his w…
  3. 3. On the original conference, see Lloyd F. Bitzer and Edwin Black, The Prospect of Rhetoric: Report of the N…
  4. 4. Michael C. Leff and Fred J. Kauffeld, “Preface,” in Texts in Context: Critical Dialogues on Significant Ep…
  5. 5. Martin J. Medhurst, “A History of Rhetoric & Public Affairs: A Salute to Fred Bohm,” Rhetoric & Public Aff…
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  1. 6. You can see them here: http://msupress.org/books/series/?id=Rhetoric+%26+Public+Affairs.
  2. 7. Medhurst, “History,” 4.
  3. 8. Paula Chakravartty et al., #CommunicationSoWhite, Journal of Communication 68 (2018): 254-66
  4. Darrel Wanzer-Serrano, "Rhetoric's Rac(e/ist) Problems," Quarterly Journal of Speech 105 (2018): 465-507. See…
  5. 9. Lisa M. Corrigan and Anjali Vats, The Structural Whiteness of Academic Patronage. Communication and Critic…
  6. 10. These are rough counts.
  7. 11. It needs to be reiterated that one of the authors of this introduction is among those who benefitted grea…
  8. 12. Some double-counting is involved as race-and-gender-related and race-related topics are not mutually exclusive.
  9. 13. R&PA Editorial Statement, https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/171.