Format:
VII, 175 pages
ISBN:
9781496843333
,
9781496843326
Series Statement:
Race, Rhetoric, and Media series
Content:
"In Authenticating Whiteness: Karens, Selfies, and Pop Stars, Rachel E. Dubrofsky explores the idea that popular media implicitly portrays whiteness as credible, trustworthy, familiar, and honest, and that this portrayal is normalized and ubiquitous. Whether on television, film, social media, or in the news, white people are constructed as believable and unrehearsed, from the way they talk to how they look and act. Dubrofsky argues that this way of making white people appear authentic is a strategy of whiteness, requiring attentiveness to the context of white supremacy in which the presentations unfold. The volume details how ideas about what is natural, good, and wholesome are reified in media, showing how these values are implicitly racialized. Additionally, the project details how white women are presented as particularly authentic when they seem to lose agency by expressing affect through emotional and bodily displays. The chapters examine a range of popular media-newspaper articles about Donald J. Trump, a selfie taken at Auschwitz, music videos by Miley Cyrus, the television series UnREAL, the infamous video of Amy Cooper calling the police on an innocent Black man, and the documentary Miss Americana-pinpointing patterns that cut across media to explore the implications for the larger culture in which they exist. At its heart, the book asks: Who gets to be authentic? And what are the implications?"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Authentic emotion -- Authentic monstrosity -- Authentic redemption -- Authentic irony -- Authentic Whiteness -- Authentic antiracism?
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781496843340
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781496843357
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781496843364
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781496843371
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Dubrofsky, Rachel E Authenticating Whiteness Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2022 ISBN 9781496843340
Language:
English
Keywords:
Authentizität
;
Weiße
;
Rassismus
;
Rassendiskriminierung
;
Massenmedien
