{"product_id":"imagining-the-heartland-9780520387607","title":"Imagining the Heartland","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn overdue examination of the Midwest's long influence on nationalism and white supremacy.    Though many associate racism with the regional legacy of the South, it is the Midwest that has upheld some of the nation's most deep-seated convictions about the value of whiteness. From Jefferson's noble farmer to The Wizard of Oz, imagining the Midwest has quietly gone hand-in-hand with imagining whiteness as desirable and virtuous. Since at least the U.S. Civil War, the imagined Midwest has served as a screen or canvas, projecting and absorbing tropes and values of virtuous whiteness and its opposite, white deplorability, with national and global significance. Imagining the Heartland provides a poignant and timely answer to how and why the Midwest has played this role in the American imagination.     In Imagining the Heartland, anthropologists Britt Halvorson and Josh Reno argue that there is an unexamined affinity between whiteness, Midwestness, and Americanness, anchored in their shared ordinary and homogenized qualities. These seemingly unremarkable qualities of the Midwest take work; they do not happen by default. Instead, creating successful representations of ordinary Midwestness, in both positive and negative senses, has required cultural expression through media ranging from Henry Ford's assembly line to Grant Wood's famous American Gothic. Far from being just another region among others, the Midwest is a political and affective logic in racial projects of global white supremacy. Neglecting the Midwest means neglecting the production of white supremacist imaginings at their most banal and at their most influential, their most locally situated and their most globally dispersed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Informatively enhanced for the reader . . .  \u003ci\u003eImagining the Heartland: White Supremacy and the American Midwest\u003c\/i\u003e is a timely and invaluable contribution to our on-going national discussions concerning racism and discrimination.\" * Midwest Book Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e List of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Reflections 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Section 1: Challenging Ideas of the Midwest\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Midwest and White Virtue\u003cbr\u003e Reflections 2\u003cbr\u003e 2. Heartland Histories\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Section II : Regional Mythmaking\u003cbr\u003e 3. Inside Out: The Global Production of Insular Whiteness\u003cbr\u003e Reflections 3\u003cbr\u003e 4. No Place Like Home: The “Ordinary” Midwest through\u003cbr\u003e Popular Fiction and Fantasy. Coauthored with Jada Basdeo\u003cbr\u003e Reflections 4\u003cbr\u003e 5. Theater of Whiteness: Mass Media Discourse on the\u003cbr\u003e Midwest Region. Coauthored with Lena Hanschka\u003cbr\u003e Reflections 5\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Appendix A: Filmography in Chapter 4 \u003cbr\u003e Appendix B: Bibliography of Media Articles in Chapter 5\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e References\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402962739543,"sku":"9780520387607","price":64.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520387607.jpg?v=1730481970","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/imagining-the-heartland-9780520387607","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}