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“We'll Put a Boot in Your Ass, It's the American Way”: Selling Chauvinism in the South

“We'll Put a Boot in Your Ass, It's the American Way”: Selling Chauvinism in the South

Evan Renfro, Jayme Neiman Renfro
Copyright: © 2021 |Pages: 30
ISBN13: 9781799840725|ISBN10: 1799840727|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781799854494|EISBN13: 9781799840732
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-4072-5.ch005
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Renfro, Evan, and Jayme Neiman Renfro. "“We'll Put a Boot in Your Ass, It's the American Way”: Selling Chauvinism in the South." Preventing and Reducing Violence in Schools and Society, edited by Swaranjit Singh and Nancy D. Erbe, IGI Global, 2021, pp. 85-114. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-4072-5.ch005

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Renfro, E. & Renfro, J. N. (2021). “We'll Put a Boot in Your Ass, It's the American Way”: Selling Chauvinism in the South. In S. Singh & N. Erbe (Eds.), Preventing and Reducing Violence in Schools and Society (pp. 85-114). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-4072-5.ch005

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Renfro, Evan, and Jayme Neiman Renfro. "“We'll Put a Boot in Your Ass, It's the American Way”: Selling Chauvinism in the South." In Preventing and Reducing Violence in Schools and Society, edited by Swaranjit Singh and Nancy D. Erbe, 85-114. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2021. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-4072-5.ch005

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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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