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Countering Racial Enthymemes: What We Can Learn About Race From Donald J. Trump, Danny Rodriguez
Countering Racial Enthymemes: What We Can Learn About Race From Donald J. Trump, Danny Rodriguez
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As a Mexican-American in a historically white field, I have observed discussions and even scholarly presentations relating to race that represent convoluted concepts such as racism, and even whiteness, as stagnant definitions ostensibly as a result of public knowledge. Race appears without qualifiers in the titles of conference presentations, journal articles, and books, implying that as a concept race is inherently unambiguous. Despite the scholarship that focuses on race and the racial blind spots in that research, a major problem in our approach to race—particularly grounded in cultural contexts—is the enduring assumption that we all interpret race in the same …