White Supremacy and the American Media
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 todays preeminent critical race scholars, the book looks in particular at the ways media institutions have circulated white supremacist ideology across a wide range of platforms and texts that have had significant impact on shaping our current polarized and racialized social and political landscape. Systematically scrutinizing every media platform, this volume provides readers with an understanding of the ways in which media has provided institutional support for white supremacist ideology, and presents them with the means to examine and analyze the persistence of these narratives within our racial discourse, thus offering the necessary knowledge to challenge and transform these racially divisive and destructive narratives.
White Supremacy and the American Media will be of interest not only to scholars working in critical race studies and popular culture in the United States, but also to those working in the fields of Film and Television Studies, Sociology, Geography, Art History, Communication and Media Studies, Cultural Studies, American Studies, Popular Culture, and Media Studies.
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 NRAs 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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White Supremacy and the American Media
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Names: Nilsen, Sarah D., editor. | Turner, Sarah E., editor. Title: White supremacy and the American media / edited by Sarah D. Nilsen and Sarah E. Turner. Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2022. | Series: Routledge studies in media, communication and politics | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2021037755 (print) | LCCN 2021037756 (ebook) | ISBN 9781032100609 (hardback) | ISBN 9781032104065 (paperback) | ISBN 9781003215172 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: White nationalism in mass media. | Mass media--Political aspects--United States. | Mass media--Social aspects--United States. Classification: LCC P96.W4842 U684 2022 (print) | LCC P96.W4842 (ebook) | DDC 305.8--dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021037755 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021037756
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Contributors
Michael J. Blouin is Associate Professor of English and Humanities at Milligan College. His recent research includes Stephen King and American Politics (forthcoming) and Magical Thinking, Fantastic Film and the Illusions of Neoliberalism (2016), a book that examines at length the promise and peril of identity politics in Hollywood cinema. He served as the guest editor for a special issue of The Journal of Popular Culture entitled Neoliberalism and Popular Culture. His interests include neoliberalism, popular culture, and American politics.
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva is James B. Duke Professor of Sociology at Duke University. He gained visibility in the social sciences with his 1997 American Sociological Review article, Rethinking Racism_ Toward a Structural Interpretation, where he challenged analysts to study racial matters structurally rather than from the sterile prejudice perspective. His book, Racism Without Racists (5th edition in 2017), has become a classic in the field and influenced scholars in multiple fields. He served as President of the Southern Sociological Society and the American Sociological Association in 20172018. Among his current projects, he is examining several case studies to explain why people in Latin American countries do not regard highly racist images such as blackface as problematic.
Pablo Bose is Professor of Geography at the University of Vermont and is a migration and urban studies scholar. Born in India and raised in Canada, he is interested in the ways that people and landscapes shape one another. He has been at UVM since 2006 in the Department of Geography and since 2015 has been director of the Global and Regional Studies Program. His three main research projects currently are on refugee resettlement in North America and Europe, on environmentally induced displacement, and on cities of the global south. Recent books include
