{"product_id":"authenticating-whiteness-karens-selfies-and-pop-stars-paperback","title":"Authenticating Whiteness: Karens, Selfies, and Pop Stars - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRachel E. Dubrofsky\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eAuthenticating Whiteness: Karens, Selfies, and Pop Stars\u003c\/i\u003e, Rachel E. Dubrofsky explores the idea that popular media implicitly portrays whiteness as credible, trustworthy, familiar, and honest, and that this portrayal is normalized and ubiquitous. Whether on television, film, social media, or in the news, white people are constructed as believable and unrehearsed, from the way they talk to how they look and act. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDubrofsky argues that this way of making white people appear authentic is a strategy of whiteness, requiring attentiveness to the context of white supremacy in which the presentations unfold. The volume details how ideas about what is natural, good, and wholesome are reified in media, showing how these values are implicitly racialized. Additionally, the project details how white women are presented as particularly authentic when they seem to lose agency by expressing affect through emotional and bodily displays. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe chapters examine a range of popular media--newspaper articles about Donald J. Trump, a selfie taken at Auschwitz, music videos by Miley Cyrus, the television series \u003ci\u003eUnREAL\u003c\/i\u003e, the infamous video of Amy Cooper calling the police on an innocent Black man, and the documentary \u003ci\u003eMiss Americana\u003c\/i\u003e--pinpointing patterns that cut across media to explore the implications for the larger culture in which they exist. At its heart, the book asks: Who gets to be authentic? And what are the implications?\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRachel E. Dubrofsky \u003c\/b\u003eis professor and chair of the Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies at Syracuse University. Her work is rooted in a critical cultural studies tradition with a focus on critical race, feminist media, and critical surveillance studies, with a recurring focus on authenticity and whiteness. Dubrofsky is regularly interviewed by the media for her expertise and has been quoted in, among others, \u003ci\u003eRolling Stone\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e The Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e TIME\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Bitch Media\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Salon.com, USA Today, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Daily Beast\u003c\/i\u003e. She is author of \u003ci\u003eThe Surveillance of Women on Reality Television: Watching \"The Bachelor\" and \"The Bachelorette\"\u003c\/i\u003e and coeditor of \u003ci\u003eFeminist Surveillance Studies\u003c\/i\u003e. Her work has appeared in such publications as \u003ci\u003eCritical Studies in Media Communication\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eCommunication, Culture \u0026amp; Critique\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eFeminist Media Studies\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eTelevision and New Media\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 184\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.42 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 13, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51873867661600,"sku":"9781496843333","price":63.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/FBvcp4iLRk9781496843333.webp?v=1781724678","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/authenticating-whiteness-karens-selfies-and-pop-stars-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}