<i>Here Comes Honey Boo Boo</i>: A Cautionary Tale Starring White Working-Class People

Rennels, Tasha R.

doi:10.1080/14791420.2015.1053957

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“…One way in which dominant norms circulate is through media, as individuals learn hegemonically appropriate/inappropriate behaviors through the syntheses of fictional and factual representations of our world. Much scholarship has deconstructed the ways in which media perpetuates dominant norms of race (Holtzman & Sharpe, 2014), ethnicity (Holtzman & Sharpe, 2014), class (Rennels, 2015), sex (Barker, Gill, & Harvey, 2018), sexuality (Shugart, 2003), and gender (Mocarski et al, 2013). Even as resistance to dominant norms becomes part of the mediated discourse, reprimands from hegemonic pressure, usually in the forms of traditional cultural forces, fight to normalize these acts of resistance.…”

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The Rise of Transgender and Gender Diverse Representation in the Media: Impacts on the Population

Mocarski

King

Butler

et al. 2019

Communication, Culture and Critique

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In recent years, the transgender and gender diverse (TGD) population has gained a stronger voice in the media. Although these voices are being heard, there are limits on the types of TGD representation displayed in media. The current study interviewed 27 TGD individuals. These interviews exposed how participants view the rise of TGD media representation. The main themes that emerged were TGD awareness and TGD identity discovery and role modeling. Clearly, there is a disconnect between transnormativity in the media and transnormativity in reality.

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The Rise of Transgender and Gender Diverse Representation in the Media: Impacts on the Population

Mocarski

King

Butler

et al. 2019

Communication, Culture and Critique

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“…Tenets of neoliberal ideology oriented to by participants include capitalist values such as free market competition and globalization, privatization of public social programs and individualism (Artz, 2015; Enghel, 2015; Garland and Harper, 2012; Giroux, 2011, 2013; Peck, 2015; Winslow, 2015). While supporters of neoliberal ideology argue that it betters the economy, critics of neoliberal ideology argue that it shapes politics in ways that reproduce inequalities between White, wealthy, first world groups and minority, working class, third world groups (Artz, 2015; Eriksson, 2015; Ha and Barnawi, 2015; Kapur, 2016; Lee, 2016; Oh and Banjo, 2012; Peck, 2015; Rennels, 2015; Varman and Vikas, 2007; Winslow, 2015). Despite these criticisms, neoliberalism continues to be widely accepted and difficult to challenge because politicians and institutions have constructed it as hegemonic or an anti-ideological, non-negotiable, invisible form of common sense (Cammaerts, 2015).…”

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Indexing neoliberal ideology and political identities in a racially diverse business community

Shrikant

Musselwhite

2018

Discourse & Communication

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This article examines the relationship between everyday talk, the reproduction of political ideology and the interactional accomplishment of situated identities through analyzing how institutional members index neoliberal ideology in their everyday interactions. Analysis of audio- and video-recorded data from racially diverse business members of two Texas chambers of commerce illustrates how chamber members indirectly index neoliberal ideology through taking stances toward government policies. White, upper class participants display neoliberal stances through using complaints – constituted by questions, humor, idioms and inference-rich terms – about the Affordable Care Act because it is a form of government interference that increases taxes and the federal deficit. Minority business members use discursive strategies such as double-voiced discourse and self-repairs to balance tensions between criticizing neoliberal ideology because it does not benefit minorities yet still orient to its taken-for-granted value in their business community. Overall, while participants’ interactions generally seem to operate within the structural constraints of neoliberal ideology, our analysis illustrates how participants take up neoliberal ideology in situated ways that, at times, provide avenues for negotiating the relevance of neoliberal ideology to everyday life.

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“…Popular press articulations of Trump belie the uneasy alliance between elite whiteness and white behavior marked as working class or poor. As Tasha Rennels (2015) argues, a transgression on reality TV occurs when a white body does not perform according to middle- or upper-class expectations for whiteness, creating what Bernadette M. Calafell (2015) might call the “monstrosity of whiteness,” a whiteness infected by otherness—lower-classness in this instance. Trump is infantilized as petulant, unruly, narcissistic, his behavior often compared with that of a child having a tantrum.…”

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Authentic Trump

Dubrofsky

2016

Television & New Media

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Donald Trump, known as a mogul and reality TV celebrity, is presented as horrific in the press now that he wants to be President of the United States, a position requiring controlled and civil behavior, which he cannot master. Comparisons between his candidacy for president and a reality TV show abound, forcing us to contend with the conventions, privileged behaviors and ethics of the current culture of surveillance (which includes reality TV), arising in contexts of surveillance but now exceeding these. The crossover from reality TV celebrity to presidential candidate is troubled, highlighting the uncomfortable intersection of Trump’s whiteness and wealth with his crass behavior. The reality TV genre is seen as trashy, featuring people without class in behavior and often in social and financial status. The presidency, however, is for the elite white upper-middle or upper-class (usually male)—Obama negotiates the politics of respectability to fit this ideal. Popular articulations of Trump demonstrate the uneasy alignment of elite whiteness with white behavior marked as working class or poor, displaying panic about a president unable to exhibit appropriately classed behavior. This dangerously elides the larger machinery that is the government and big business, belying our cultural preoccupation with individualism and obfuscating the systemic. Taking Trump for the system negates how the current machinery has in fact produced a string of Trumps (Palin, Bachmann, Cruz), leaving us longing for the more civil days when white elite men knew how to speak their hatred in a civil manner.

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Here Comes Honey Boo Boo: A Cautionary Tale Starring White Working-Class People

Cited by 9 publications

References 11 publications

The Rise of Transgender and Gender Diverse Representation in the Media: Impacts on the Population

The Rise of Transgender and Gender Diverse Representation in the Media: Impacts on the Population

Indexing neoliberal ideology and political identities in a racially diverse business community

Authentic Trump

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