{"product_id":"white-saviorism-and-popular-culture-kathryn-mathers-9781032112275","title":"White Saviorism and Popular Culture: Imagined Africa as a Space for American Salvation","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book interrogates the white savior industrial complex by exploring how America continues to present an imagined Africa as a space for its salvation in the 21st century.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThrough close readings of multiple mediated sites where Americans imagine Africa, \u003cem\u003eWhite Saviorism and Popular Culture\u003c\/em\u003e examines how an era of new media technologies is reshaping encounters between Africans and westerners in the 21st century, especially as Africans living and experiencing the consequences of western imaginings are 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 \u003ci\u003eBlack Panther\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBlack is King\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kathryn Mathers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1032112271\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781032112275\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/15\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 116\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.38d","brand":"Kathryn Mathers","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44070906429695,"sku":"9781032112275","price":64.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ac77ecfc-6f6f-4e09-be9d-b887f60d549a.jpg?v=1685433023","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/white-saviorism-and-popular-culture-kathryn-mathers-9781032112275","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}