Imperiled Whiteness

Penelope Ingram is associate professor of English and distinguished teaching professor at the University of Texas, Arlington. She is author of The Signifying Body: Toward an Ethics of Sexual and Racial Difference. Her work has appeared in such publications as Jump Cut: Review of Contemporary Media, Journal for Peace and Justice Studies, and Feminist Review.

Recommended.--S. Clerc "CHOICE" From the beginning to end, Imperiled Whiteness is a powerful examination of our current cultural moment; it asks us to consider the longevity and impact of problematic cultural narratives about race as well as our own investment in these narratives. As such, it offers a significant contribution to the fields of film, media, and race studies.--Ann M. Ciasullo "Journal of Popular Culture" In the end, the book does a more than satisfactory job of walking readers through whiteness in the United States and demonstrates how popular media plays a role in its convoluted construction. The comparison of speculative fiction produced by white and marginalized artists is enlightening and effective, demonstrating the potential of media to have reactionary and progressive goals. . . . Imperiled Whiteness is a reminder that (white) audiences would all do well to pay closer attention to the media they consume on a daily, or even hourly, basis--Emily Dodson Quartarone "Journal of Film and video" The achievement of Imperiled Whiteness is its reconsideration of received knowledge and its reinforcement of the status quo even where one cannot conceive of its continuing viability. One cannot imagine anyone not expanding intellectually after wrestling with the conceptual distortions detailed in Imperiled Whiteness.--Jay Wiener "Clarion-Ledger / Hattiesburg American Mississippi Books Page" Imperiled Whiteness is an insightful and much-needed interrogation of whiteness and white racial identity in contemporary US popular culture. It offers not simply an assertion that much of US pop culture centers on white folks, but a nuanced exploration of how whiteness itself is constructed, negotiated, and reconstructed in response to shifting cultural and political contexts.--Russell Meeuf, author of White Terror: The Horror Film from Obama to Trump