{"product_id":"9780807181553-dangerous-innocence","title":"Dangerous Innocence","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhite Men, Mass Culture, and the Southern Outsider's Appeal, 1960-2020\u003cbr\u003eInvestigates how prevailing constructions of white masculinity in the US South help feed and reinforce systems of racial inequity. Tracing the rise of the ‘southern outsider’ in literature and on television from 1960 to 2020, William P. Murray probes white Americans’ enduring desire to assert their own blamelessness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDangerous Innocence \u003c\/i\u003einvestigates how prevailing constructions of white masculinity in the U.S. South help feed and reinforce systems of racial inequity. Tracing the rise of the \"southern outsider\" in literature and on television from 1960 to 2020, William P. Murray probes white Americans' enduring desire to assert their own blamelessness even though such acts of self-justification facilitate continued violence against historically oppressed populations. \u003ci\u003eDangerous Innocence \u003c\/i\u003ecourses from popular television such as \u003ci\u003eThe Andy Griffith Show \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Waltons\u003c\/i\u003e through influential fiction by Eudora Welty, Walker Percy, and other prominent southern authors—alongside forceful challenges voiced by Black writers including Chester Himes and Ernest Gaines—before turning to works created after the September 11 attacks that reinscribe cultural logics predicated on protecting white innocence and power. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConcluding on a note of praxis, \u003ci\u003eDangerous Innocence\u003c\/i\u003e argues that reattaching southern outsiders to a communal identity encourages an honest assessment about what whiteness represents and what it means to belong to a nation steeped in commitments to white supremacy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56071674954102,"sku":"9780807181553","price":41.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_37800294.jpg?v=1763022793","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780807181553-dangerous-innocence","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}