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 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 of platforms and texts that have had significant impact on shaping our current polarized and racialized social and political landscape. Systematically scrutinising 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 analyse 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 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"--

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of contributors -- Chapter 1: White supremacy and the American media -- Introduction -- Part I: Theories of white supremacy and the media -- Part II: White supremacy and film -- Part III: White supremacy and television -- Part IV: White supremacy, social media, and gaming -- Note -- References -- Part I: Theories of white supremacy and the media -- Chapter 2: Theorizing white nationalism: Past, present, and future -- Introduction -- Nationalism, whiteness, and "American" identity -- In defense of whiteness: the historical politics of "backlash" -- Whiteness today: color-blindness and the new white nationalism -- The nature of the new white nationalism -- Increased toleration for racism -- Intensified nationalism -- External and internal threats -- White victimization -- White nationalism, color-blindness, and the future of white supremacy -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3: The soul of white nationalism in the American body politic: Birtherism, "Make America Great Again," and immigration -- Introduction -- The whiteness of citizenship: a nation of Birthers -- White nostalgia: Make America Great Again -- Enemy at the gates: otherness and immigration -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4: The racial folly of white liberals in Trump's America and beyond -- Introduction -- Why we should not have been surprised -- Toward a sociological understanding of Trump -- On the racists -- Racism as expression of class anxieties -- What type of racism rules the American landscape? -- On democracy, or how not to normalize everyday power -- Concluding thoughts, or what is to be done -- Notes -- References -- Part II: White supremacy and film.