White nostalgia and antiracist queer resistance in “post-truth America”, by Laura Elliot Tetreault [Book Review]

Abstract

[From the first paragraph of the book review] Who are you, Laura Tetreault? Who are your people? The same questions that Tetreault says are necessary to identify those in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter and other social justice movements, are the same questions that keep coming up for me as I read this book. I am a Caribbean woman carrying many heritages, most proudly African and Kalinago. I need to know who I am reading and why I am reading them. The only glimpse I get of Tetreault is when she states in the Introduction that she is “a white person who grew up as a well- meaning liberal”. The well-meaning is very well exemplified as this book focuses on rhetorical theorizing and disinformation in the context of Black Lives Matter and antiracist queer resistance instead of the wastefulness, danger, ignorance and moronicness of “white supremacy” which Tetreault has identified is the real problem.