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Part 1. The politics of whitelash: -- When racism hits close to home: on your campus -- The 2016 Olympics: the trilogy of hypocrisy, racism, and white privilege -- Dylann Storm Roof: the deranged, dark face of white nationalism -- Conservatives still scapegoating Barack Obama -- Colin Kaepernick: the undeniable reality of american racial hypocrisy -- Birtherism = bullshit -- Michelle Obama: playa hatin' on the former first lady -- Denial of supreme court seat: one of a long line of racial slights toward predsident Obama -- The intersection of racial, gender, and economic politics -- The alt-right and the repulsive spirit of white supremacy -- Part II. Staying woke!: Authentically black: the debate lives on -- Mental illness: yes – it is a black thing! -- Black lives matter too -- Black history month: beyond one month -- Message to Starbucks: tackling racism will require more than a few hours of racial bias training --

With Baby Boomers now moving into retirement, members of Generation X have come to the forefront of American society. Consequently, understanding Generation X-and the potential impact of the independent, sometimes rebellious spirit that characterizes it-is critical. In Generation X Professors Speak: Voices from Academia, Elwood Watson has assembled a unique collection of thematically arranged essays by academics that offers insights into the issues, conflicts, and triumphs that epitomize this often overlooked generation

This collection of essays written by seventeen Generation X academics passionately, provocatively, and eloquently demonstrates the personal issues, conflicts, and triumphs that are definitive of this generation. These essays define the voice of an often overlooked and ignored demographic.

This collection highlights the fluidity of masculinity in American popular culture at the turn of the new millennium and beyond by examining possibilities for male identity formation. Each chapter mines American popular culture -- theatre, film, literature, music, advertising, internet content, television, photography, and current events -- to pose questions about the process of gender creation and the contestation of masculinities as constantly changing political forms. The first section explores masculinities within late capitalism and includes studies of Seinfeld, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, and reality television. The second section addresses identity when masculinity intersects with race, religion, disability, and sexuality, including chapters on Barack Obama, the O.J. trial, and popular movies.

Racialized mediated performance and contemporary masculinity. The dilemma of the Italian American male / Marc DiPaolo -- Patrick Bateman as "average white male" in American psycho / Daniel Mudie Cunningham -- Ambivalence, desire and the re-Imagining of Asian masculinity in Better luck Tomorrow / Ruthann Lee -- The Black interior, reparations and African American masculinity in The wiz / Jesse Scott -- Flavor of love and the rise of neo-minstrelsy in reality television / Valerie Palmer-Mehta and Alina Haliliuc -- Bold, beautiful and unnecessarily maligned / Daryl Carter -- Celebrity culture and racial masculinities: The case of Will Smith / David Magill -- Contemporary mediated performance and the cultural politics of masculinity. Constructions of mathematical masculinities in popular culture / Marie-Pierre Moreau, Heather Mendick and Debbie Epstein -- Killing off white hegemonic masculinity in Indian killer / Jane E. Rose -- Narrative's role in constructing masculinities in We were soldiers / Bradley Smith -- Masculinity and domesticity in "A home at the end of the world," and "Househusband" / Helena Wahlstrom -- Anxious male domesticity and gender troubled corrections / Kristin Jacobson / Neil LaBute's Bodies in question / Marc Shaw -- O.J. Simpson: tabloidized, sexualized, racialized and largely despised / Elwood Watson -- Major league baseball and the cultural politics of sexuality / Rachelle Sussman

pt. I. There is no time for despair : (re)working the racial order -- pt. II. The space of trauma : violence to the psyche, body, and home -- pt. III. Media fallacies : stereotypes and other obliterations of black realities -- pt. IV. Stone walls : the invisible hand of institutional racism.

This book studies the HBO program Girls from multiple perspectives by comparing the series to similar programs from decades past as well as to the show's contemporaries in the present. By examining the show through the lenses of gender, race, sexuality, and culture. This book synthesizes and analyzes many of the most pressing issues that have surfaced in a show that has firmly etched itself in the fabric of early twenty-first century popular culture.