T. Dionne, J. Hatfield, Nabiha Khetani, Joel Metcalf
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ABSTRACT In summer 2020 at the University of Arkansas, a Black-led protest movement known as #BlackatUARK challenged the presence of a statue to William J. Fulbright due to his racist voting record. Despite the Arkansas state legislature quickly passing a law that made the removal of the memorial illegal, contributors to #BlackatUARK demonstrated how to forget Fulbright by recontextualizing his memory as continuous with a broader history of anti-Blackness on campus. We argue that efforts to forget Fulbright are skillful techniques of anti-racist communication that can be understood as (1) deep ecological worldmaking, (2) wake work, and (3) dissonant history generation.
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Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (CC/CS) is a peer-reviewed publication of the National Communication Association. CC/CS publishes original scholarship that situates culture as a site of struggle and communication as an enactment and discipline of power. The journal features critical inquiry that cuts across academic and theoretical boundaries. CC/CS welcomes a variety of methods including textual, discourse, and rhetorical analyses alongside auto/ethnographic, narrative, and poetic inquiry.
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