“…The analysis of race that draws upon these two theoretical constructs was first established in The Rhetoric of Racism (McPhail, 1994) and has been expanded and amplified in Zen in the Art of Rhetoric: An Inquiry into Coherence (McPhail, 1995), as well as a number of recent essays (McPhail, 1997a(McPhail, , 1997b(McPhail, , 1998a(McPhail, , 1998b. The theory of complicity explores how oppositional discourse essentializes difference, and thus reinforces the epistemological and social consequences of racial division.…”