White Supremacy and the American Media

ISBN-13: 9781032100609 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 292 str.

Sarah D. Nilsen; Sarah E. Turner

Opis

This volume examines the ways in which the media, including film, television, social media, and gaming has constructed and sustained a narrative of white supremacy that has entered mainstream American discourse.

Spis treści

1. White Supremacy and the American Media;  Part I: Theories of White Supremacy and the Media;  2. Theorizing White Nationalism: Past, Present, and Future;  3. The Soul of White Nationalism in the American Body Politic: Birtherism, “Make America Great Again”, and Immigration;  4. The Racial Folly of White Liberals in Trump’s America and Beyond;  Part II: White Supremacy and Film;  5. The Best of Enemies and BlacKkKlansman: Racial Dog Whistles, Whiteness, and a Sympathetic Klan;  6. Knives Out and the End of Racial Politics;  7. What Happened to the Green Book? The Disappearing Act of Black Agency and Other White Framings in Green Book;  8. American Sniper: Constructing a White Nationalist Hero;  Part III: White Supremacy and Television;  9. White Nationalism and the Spectre of the Refugee;  10. “Keep it off the Field”: The Mediatized Sports Stadium as White Space;  11. Whiteness and the Ambiguous Racial Politics of Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale;  Part IV: White Supremacy, Social Media, and Gaming;  12. Stephen King’s Political Monsters;  13. Playing at Racism: White Supremacist Recruitment in Online Video Game Culture;  14. White Female Pain: Cis White Women and Digital Masculine Rhetoric