Composing Ethical Communities of Antiracism in Tulsa's Black Wall Street.

After the poststructuralist turn, prominent rhetorical theorists (Davis; Gehrke; Vitanza) invoked Jean Luc Nancy's philosophy to critique rhetorics of community as a problem of totalitarianism, or immanentism (the drive for oneness). Yet, the perpetual critique of community needs ethical supplementation when an actual, existing community needs to exclude for protection. This article considers how Ibram X. Kendi offers a normative basis through which Black antiracist communities must contextually exclude "nonracist" and racist values for protection and to enable flourishing—thus, putting into tension an influential poststructural theory of community with an actual historical community built on tacit antiracist principles. We compare and contrast Nancy and Kendi's respective approaches to the challenges of the ethics of community through a discussion of the "Buy Black" economic protections of Tulsa's Black Wall Street in the U.S. segregation era. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]