This book analyzes how and why contemporary white masculinity is increasingly connected to images of death, mayhem, destruction, and the apocalyptic as a response to demands for inclusion that might otherwise add to white mens structural privilege. It considers discourses and images that address white men as if they are victims, the enacting of white masculinity, and white male subjects in media culture, showing how death and trauma have become the organizing tropes of white masculinity. It examines reality television and networked media, particularly the National Geographic show Doomsday Preppers; men's rights discourses on web sites like Reddit, Return of Kings, and a Voice for Men; mass killings by white men who have been radicalized while on men's rights networks, including the digital manifesto of killer Elliot Rodger; how white men act out and resist their victimhood by carrying firearms in public; and the white masculine victimhood of Donald Trump on Twitter and in political rallies. Some parts of the book have been previously published elsewhere. Annotation 2020 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
