Affirmative reaction : new formations of white masculinity / Hamilton Carroll.

Author/creator Carroll, Hamilton, 1969-
Format Book
Publication InfoDurham, NC : Duke University Press, ©2011.
Descriptionix, 221 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects
Men, White--United States. --Attitudes.
White people--Race identity. --United States.
Masculinity--Social aspects. --United States.
Masculinity in popular culture--United States.

SeriesNew Americanists
New Americanists. ^A346168
Contents Introduction: White masculinities and the politics of representation -- Part I: 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 -- Part II: 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 -- Part III: 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [201]-211) and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: Carroll, Hamilton, 1969- Affirmative reaction. Durham, NC : Duke University Press, c2011
LCCN 2010031778
ISBN9780822349297 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0822349299 (cloth : alk. paper)
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