Affirmative Reaction New Formations of White Masculinity

Name: Affirmative Reaction New Formations of White Masculinity
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ISBN: 9780822349488

ISBN-10: 0822349485

ISBN-13: 9780822349488

Edition: 2011

Authors: Hamilton Carroll

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Affirmative Reactionexplores the cultural politics of heteronormative white masculine privilege in the United States. Through close readings of texts ranging from the popular television drama24to the Marvel Comics miniseriesThe Call of Duty, and from the reality showAmerican Chopperto the movieMillion Dollar Baby, Hamilton Carroll argues that the true privilege of white masculinity-and its defining strategy-is not to be unmarked, universal, or invisible, but to be mobile and mutable. He describes how, in response to the perceived erosions of privilege produced by postcivil rights era identity politics, white masculinity has come to rely on the very discourses of difference that unsettled…

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List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 1/25/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 232
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.17" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction White Masculinities and the Politics of Representation



9-11/24-7


Affective Time and the War on Terror



Jack Bauer's Extraordinary Rendition: Neoliberal Melodrama and the Ethics of Torture



Future Perfect: "Everyday Heroes" and the New Exceptionalism



Embodying Difference


Whiteness, Class, and the Postindustrial Subject



Men's Soaps: Automotive Television Programming and Contemporary Working-Class Masculinities



"My Skin Is It Startin' to Work to My Benefit Now?": Eminem's White Trash Aesthetic



Daddy's Home


Family Melodrama and the Fictions of State



The Fighting Irish: Ethnic Whiteness and Million Dollar Baby



Romancing the Nation: Family Melodrama and the Sentimental Logics of Neoliberalism


Notes


Bibliography


Index