Robert Asen is the Stephen E. Lucas Professor of Rhetoric, Politics, and Culture at University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of numerous books, including School Choice and the Betrayal of Democracy: How Market-Based Education Reform Fails Our Communities, and he has coedited multiple volumes, including Text + Field: Innovations in Rhetorical Method.

Casey Ryan Kelly is Professor of Rhetoric and Public Culture at University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is the author of five books, including Caught on Tape: White Masculinity and Obscene Enjoyment and Apocalypse Man: The Death Drive and the Rhetoric of White Masculine Victimhood, and has won numerous awards from the National Communication Association.

"An edited collection that examines the interactions of rhetoric, economy, and whiteness to illuminate how economic and racial structures and practices in the United States perpetuate social inequalities and frustrate efforts to enact alternatives. Essays take up issues of housing, education, judicial appointments, politics, entertainment, and culture to critique how whiteness resecures its social position in economic contexts"--