Beyond Hate - White Power and Popular Culture (Paperback, New Ed)

Beyond Hate offers a critical ethnography of the virtual communities established and discursive networks activated through the online engagements of white separatists, white nationalists, and white supremacists with various popular cultural texts, including movies, music, television, sport, video games, and kitsch. Outlining the ways in which advocates of white power interpret popular cultural forms, and probing the emergent spaces of white power popular culture, it examines the paradoxical relationship that advocates of white supremacy have with popular culture, as they finding it to be an irresistible and repugnant reflection of social decay rooted in multiculturalism. Drawing on a range of new media sources, including websites, chat rooms, blogs and forums, this book explores the concerns expressed by advocates of white power, with regard to racial hierarchy and social order, the crisis of traditional American values, the perpetuation of liberal, feminist, elitist ideas, the degradation of the family and the fetishization of black men. What emerges is an understanding of the instruments of power in white supremacist discourses, in which a series of connections are drawn between popular culture, multiculturalism, sexual politics and state functions, all of which are seen to be working against white men. A richly illustrated study of the intersections of white power and popular culture in the contemporary U.S., and the use of use cyberspace by white supremacists as an imagined site of resistance, Beyond Hate will appeal to scholars of sociology and cultural studies with interests in race and ethnicity, popular culture and the discourses of the extreme right.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	The Cultural Politics of Media and Popular Culture
Release date:	August 2014
First published:	2014
Authors:	C. Richard King • David J Leonard
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	200
Edition:	New Ed
ISBN-13:	978-1-4724-2749-6
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social theory Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > Popular culture Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Multicultural studies > General Promotions
LSN:	1-4724-2749-1
Barcode:	9781472427496

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