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  Friday Night Whites — Nighttime Drama Don’t Respect My Conway Twitty

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  Kelly Kessler DePaul University

  March 23, 2007

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  jobs in strip clubs and burger joints. The sitcom Earl appears—at least to me—to embrace those I often ...
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  Antifandom of CRT as Fannish Attachment to Whiteness

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  Mel Stanfill University of Central Florida

  March 28, 2022

  Beginning in 2021, “Critical Race Theory” became a buzzword in popular discourse, used to describe ...
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  Can the Sidekick Protest? The Dissonant Sidekick and the Limits of Representing Difference in Contemporary Media

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  Jeff Casey University of Wisconsin-Madison

  December 16, 2014

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  Can the Sidekick Protest? The Dissonant Sidekick and the Limits of Representing Difference in Contemporary Media gender genre homosocial frienship homosociality Race and Representation sidekicks whiteness Curator's Note Gore Verbinski’s The Lone Rang ...
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  Hulk Smash Wimpy White Man Who is Also Hulk: Reasserting Masculine Authority through Masochism

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  Avi Santo Old Dominion University

  March 21, 2008

  4 comments

  beginning of the pilot episode, initially seems idyllic, with Banner clearly epitomizing a softer, gentler, ...
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  Transgression, Confession, and Ying Yang Twins’s “Wait (The Whisper Song)”

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  Michael Z. Newman University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

  February 20, 2008

  1 comment

  Transgression, Confession, and Ying Yang Twins’s “Wait (The Whisper Song)” Ying Yang Twins whiteness transgression taste race music masculinity hip hop guilty pleasures cultural capital affect Curator's Note Owning up to a guilty pleasure is a perfor ...
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  It's Easy to Be Green

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  Allison Page University of Minnesota

  June 04, 2013

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  It's Easy to Be Green whiteness race Environmental Media consumerism Curator's Note During the last several years, there has been an explosion of “green” media in the United States that aligns with (and capitalizes on) increasing concern about c ...
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  South Park’s Ironic Whiteness

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  Ted Gournelos Old Dominion University

  January 14, 2008

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  South Park’s Ironic Whiteness whiteness race South Park Comedy Central destabilize Michael Richards Richard Dyer George Lipsitz irony A Time to Kill Training Day Curator's Note As scholars like Richard Dyer and George Lipsitz have pointed out, one of ...
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  Deviating from the Norm: Examining How Blackness is Punished in Video Games

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  Kishonna Gray Eastern Kentucky University

  November 12, 2014

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  Deviating from the Norm: Examining How Blackness is Punished in Video Games whiteness video games racism blackness Curator's Note The purpose of this discussion is to examine how the normalization of Whiteness and masculinity within video games leads ...