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Affirmative reaction : new formations of white masculinity /

Argues that white masculine privilege has been maintained in the face of broader cultural and economic changes in the U.S. by representing itself as marginalized or minoritized in the very ways that it has been critiqued.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Carroll, Hamilton, 1969-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2011.
Series:New Americanists.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Jack Bauer's extraordinary rendition : neoliberal melodrama and the ethics of torture
  • Future perfect : "everyday heroes" and the new exceptionalism
  • 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
  • The fighting Irish : ethnic whiteness and million dollar baby
  • Romancing the nation : family melodrama and the sentimental logics of neoliberalism.