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1st Edition

White Supremacy and the American Media

Edited By Sarah D. Nilsen, Sarah E. Turner Copyright 2022
304 Pages
by Routledge

304 Pages
by Routledge

304 Pages
by Routledge
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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. With chapters by today’s preeminent critical race scholars, the book looks in particular at the ways media institutions have circulated white supremacist ideology across a wide range... Read more

1. White Supremacy and the American Media
Sarah D. Nilsen and Sarah E. Turner

Part I: Theories of White Supremacy and the Media

2. Theorizing White Nationalism: Past, Present, and Future
Ashley (Woody) Doane

3. The Soul of White Nationalism in the American Body Politic: Birtherism, “Make America Great Again”, and Immigration
Matthew Hughey

4. The Racial Folly of White Liberals in Trump’s America and Beyond
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

Part II: White Supremacy and Film

5. The Best of Enemies and BlacKkKlansman: Racial Dog Whistles, Whiteness, and a Sympathetic Klan
Sarah E. Turner

6. Knives Out and the End of Racial Politics
Michael J. Blouin

7. What Happened to the Green Book? The Disappearing Act of Black Agency and Other White Framings in Green Book
Charise Pimentel, Jennifer Lee O’Donnell, Yasiry Lerma, and Cassadie Charlesworth

8. American Sniper: Constructing a White Nationalist Hero
Sarah Nilsen

Part III: White Supremacy and Television

9. White Nationalism and the Spectre of the Refugee
Pablo Bose

10. “Keep it off the Field”: The Mediatized Sports Stadium as White Space
Helen Morgan Parmett 

11. Whiteness and the Ambiguous Racial Politics of Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale
Stefania Marghitu and Kelsey Moore Johnson

Part IV: White Supremacy, Social Media, and Gaming

12. Stephen King’s Political Monsters
Tony Magistrale

13. Playing at Racism: White Supremacist Recruitment in Online Video Game Culture
Megan Condis

14. White Female Pain: Cis White Women and Digital Masculine Rhetoric
Hannah Noel

Biography

Sarah D. Nilsen is Associate Professor in Film and Television Studies at the University of Vermont, USA. Her current book project is a cultural history of the NRA’s relationship with Hollywood.

Sarah E. Turner is Senior Lecturer of English at the University of Vermont, USA. Her current project explores the dialogue amongst the work of Toni Morrison, Claudia Rankine, and Kara Walker.

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