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What is Racial Threat Hypothesis

Chapter 5
Preventing and Reducing Violence in Schools and Society
A theory that proposes that as the population of racial minorities in a community rises, the dominant race will fear an economic and criminal threat and begin to impose higher levels of social control on the subordinate group.
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“We'll Put a Boot in Your Ass, It's the American Way”: Selling Chauvinism in the South
Evan Renfro (University of Northern Iowa, USA) and Jayme Neiman Renfro (University of Northern Iowa, USA)
Copyright: © 2021 |Pages: 30
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-4072-5.ch005
Abstract
Since before the founding of the United States through slavery, the extermination of the native populace, war after war, regime overthrow, and more wars, popular media have been used to stir resentments and produce violent fantasies in the general citizenry that often allow for policies of actual violence to be applied against “the other.” This chapter will analyze the affective coordinates of this system in the post-9/11 context, focusing especially on how nationalist-jingoism has now triumphed in the age of the Trump Administration. Crucial interrogations addressed in this chapter include: Why are white southern/rural males particularly susceptible to popular culture induced affective violence? What are the mechanics of profit and neoliberal imperatives of this structure? What is new about the linkage of these phenomena with the first Twitter-President? In pursuing these questions, the authors will use case studies involving the popular media vectors of television, film, and music.
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