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Donald Trump's 2016 presidential election underscored the role of "Truth" and how it functions in an epistemological relationship with conservative identity. Drawing upon Cheryl Harris's notion of "whiteness as property," this article forwards a theoretical framework of "Truth as White property" whereby Truth functions as an extension of whiteness and as a possession of whiteness. Using Fox News' treatment of the 1619 Project as a case study, the author argues that White ownership of Truth relies on the rhetorical strategies of discrediting, dismissing, and redirecting. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the use of the hashtag "#RhetoricSoWhite" on social media platforms designed to advocate for more diversity in rhetoric studies. Topics covered include ethic identity, knowledge production, and the history of rhetorical analysis as a field of study.

An introduction is presented on the issue's focus on the state of rhetorical analysis studies.

The article offers a review on concept of community control in the book "The New York Young Lords and the Struggle for Liberatio" by Darrel Wanzer-Serrano. Topics discussed include how an organization is reshaped by a decolonial ethic; views on the efforts of scholars to write about multiple communities by identifying academics; and women's voices within the Young Lords' organization.

This essay centers race in taking serious an often-dismissed movement, the Birthers, who question Barack Obama's citizenship and deem him as an illegitimate president. Through a historical and relational lens, I argue that the Birther rhetoric of constitutional protection relies on racial logics used in previous discourses about foreignness to delineate acceptable citizenship for the presidency and mark Obama as untrustworthy. By analyzing the Birthers.org website and two Birther movement-associated media figures, Orly Taitz and Donald Trump, Birther discourses manipulate rationality, reinforce a White racial state, and activate anxieties over an increasingly multi-racial and global society. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]