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Back to topReality TV's Real Men of the Recession: White Masculinity in Crisis and the Rise of Trumpism (Paperback)
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Description
In the 2000s, reality programs showcasing white, working-class men performing hazardous occupations in wilderness settings proliferated on U.S. cable networks. Shannon O'Sullivan argues that this genre represents a reactionary veneration of white, rural, working-class men as "real Americans" amid the Great Recession and current events.
About the Author
Shannon O'Sullivan is lecturer in the Communication Department at SUNY College at Buffalo.