UID:
almahu_9949420118202882
Format:
1 online resource (vi, 116 pages)
ISBN:
9781003223818
,
1003223818
,
9781000774542
,
1000774546
,
9781000774597
,
1000774597
Series Statement:
Routledge focus on media and humanitarian action
Content:
"This book interrogates the white savior industrial complex by exploring how America continues to present an imagined Africa as a space for salvation in the 21st century. Through close readings of multiple mediated sites where Americans imagine Africa, this book examines how an era of new media technologies is reshaping encounters between Africans and westerners in the 21st century, including how Africans living and experiencing the consequences of western imaginings are now also mobilizing the same mediated spaces. Kathryn Mathers emphasizes that the articulation of different forms of humanitarian engagement between America and Africa marks the necessity to interrogate the white savior industrial complex and the ways Africa is being asked to fulfill American needs as life in the United States becomes increasingly intolerable for Black Americans. Drawing on case studies from Savior Barbie (@barbiesavior) to Black Panther and Black is King, Mathers posits that global imperialism not only still reigns, but that it also disguises white supremacy by outsourcing Black American emancipation onto an imagined Africa. This is crucial reading for courses on the cultural politics of representation, particularly in relation to race, social media and popular culture, as well as anyone interested in issues of representation in the global humanitarianism industry"--
Additional Edition:
Print version: Mathers, Kathryn. White saviorism and popular culture. New York : Routledge, 2022 ISBN 9781032112275
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9781003223818
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003223818
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