Recent research on the intersection of race and media describes a trend of progressive, even
antiracist, narratives that showcase close inter‐racial friendships and camaraderie on the …

This article examines the processes of white racial identity formation in the United States via
an examination of a white nationalist organization and a white antiracist organization. …

In 2004, awash with the hope for a public sphere reinvigorated by the popular internet, the
online arms of many US newspapers opened their websites for comments. Now, nine years …

Recent research on African American media representations describes a trend of progressive,
antiracist film production. Specifically, "magical negro" films (cinema highlighting lower-…

… available to whites (Hewitt Citation2005; Rhodes Citation2010); both the covert and
explicit use of racism in politics to fracture and realign voting behaviour along racial lines (Hughey …

… 2010; Eliasoph 1999), the ways in which supposedly different politicized narratives can
paradoxically rationalize the same forms of discrimination and material inequality (Hughey 2012; …

This article documents the collective interpretations of film reviewers, a position typically
associated with individual aesthetic judgment rather than socially shared scripts of explanation. …

… fraternities or with a cursory glance toward black Greek-letter organizations (BGLOs) with
the assumption that they are little more than violent hazers and “educated gangs” (cf Hughey …

… Lewis 2004; Hughey 2012). Just as cultural hegemony produces a kind of common sense,
hegemonic whiteness reflects commonly held meanings of whiteness that are taken for …

This article documents the shared patterns of private white male discourse. Drawing from
comparative ethnographic research in a white nationalist and a white antiracist organization, I …