Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-238) and index.
Contents
Pt. 1. Race, violence, and children's culture. White panic and the racial coding of violence ; Racism and the aesthetic of hyper-real violence : Pulp fiction and other visual tragedies ; Animating youth : the Disneyfication of children's culture -- Pt. 2. Public intellectuals and populist persuasions. Public intellectuals and postmodern youth ; Talking heads and radio pedagogy : microphone politics and the new public intellectuals -- Pt. 3. The way things ought not to be : race and national identity. Licensing bigotry without being politically correct ; The milk ain't clean : national identity and multiculturalism.