{"product_id":"imperiled-whiteness-how-hollywood-and-media-make-race-in-postracial-america-hardback-9781496845498","title":"Imperiled Whiteness; How Hollywood and Media Make Race in \"Postracial\" America (Hardback) 9781496845498","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eImperiled Whiteness\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eHow Hollywood and Media Make Race in \"Postracial\" America\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003ePenelope Ingram (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781496845498\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 23 June 2023\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e277 pages, 118 b\u0026amp;w illustrations\u003cbr\u003e23.3 x 15.5 x 2.2 cm, 0.721 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eImperiled Whiteness: How Hollywood and Media Make Race in \"Postracial\" America\u003c\/i\u003e, author Penelope Ingram argues that in the Obama-to-Trump era, a variety of media platforms, including film, television, news, and social media, turned white identity into a commodity that was packaged and disseminated to a white populace. The book emphasizes how media in its myriad forms coopted a postracial narrative, making whiteness a disenfranchised commodity and vivifying white nationalist and neo-Nazi movements on the alt-right. While fully recognizing the \u003ci\u003ecovert\u003c\/i\u003e centrality of whiteness to postracial discourses, Ingram challenges existing scholarship to argue that discourses of the postracial era have enabled the rise of an \u003ci\u003eovert\u003c\/i\u003e white identity politics, a sense of solidarity among white people, including those who espouse liberal or progressive political views.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIngram explores the convergence of entertainment, news, and social media in a digital networked environment and traces how media’s renewed attention to \"mainstream whiteness\" has propelled a resurgence of rabid white nationalism. Reading popular film and television franchises (\u003ci\u003eThe Walking Dead\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003ePlanet of the Apes\u003c\/i\u003e reboot, and the \u003ci\u003eStar Trek \u003c\/i\u003ereboot) through the contemporary political flashpoints of immigration reform, gun control, and Black Lives Matter protests, Ingram demonstrates how media buttressed and exploited an affective experience among white audiences—a feeling or sense of vulnerability and loss. Ingram also explores how contemporary Black filmmakers utilize speculative fiction to intercede in and disrupt this shifting racial landscape, through an examination of Jordan Peele’s films \u003ci\u003eGet Out\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eUs\u003c\/i\u003e, and Ryan Coogler’s \u003ci\u003eBlack Panther\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University Press of Mississippi","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52600618123544,"sku":"9781496845498","price":71.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/imperiled-whiteness-how-hollywood-and-media-make-race-in-postracial-america-hardback-9781496845498","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}