Imperiled Whiteness: How Hollywood and Media Make Race in Postracial America

by Penelope Ingram

Book Overview

In Imperiled Whiteness: How Hollywood and Media Make Race in "Postracial" America, 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496845501
• ISBN13: 9781496845504
• Release Date: June 2023
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"