Watching TV with White Supremacists
Watching TV with White Supremacists
A More Complex View of the Colorblind Screen
This chapter examines online discussions among, and historical documents by, advocates of white power—here understood as a broad discursive field that encompasses perspectives typically identified as white supremacist and white nationalist. It has two main objectives. First, it seeks to tease out the preoccupations white power advocates bring to television and how these shape their accounts of the medium. Second, it works to make sense of the relationship between white power and colorblindness, arguing that the latter dominant form clears a space for emergent and latent ideologies, while offering them a target to spread their messages. In exploring these themes, the chapter argues that many white supremacists see television as a powerful threat to whiteness. Indeed, television endangers whites because of who they believe controls it, what they assert it communicates, and what they identify as guiding ideologies such as multiculturalism and race mixing.
Keywords: white power, white supremacists, white nationalist, television, colorblindness, whiteness, guiding ideologies, multiculturalism, race mixing
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