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How two seemingly separate forces—white power and neoliberalism—intersect and polarize the United States today.   White Power and American Neoliberal Culture speaks to the urgency of the present moment by uncovering and examining the ideologies that led us here. Working through sources such as white terrorist manifestos, white power utopian fiction, neoliberal think tank reports, and neoconservative policy statements, Patricia Ventura and Edward K. Chan analyze the conjunction of current forms of white supremacy and racial capitalism.   Short and accessible, this timely book argues that white extremist worldviews—and the violence they provoke—have converged with a radical economic and social agenda to shape daily life in the United States, especially by enshrining the male-dominated white family as the ideal of national identity. Through insightful observation and critical dissection, Ventura and Chan paint a striking portrait of how these forces enable each other, perpetuating social injustice and inequity.

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"""White Power and American Neoliberal Culture [illuminates] how the domestic sphere functions as a reproductive mechanism for raced and classed inequality and vehemence."" * Ethnic and Racial Studies * ""I hope that White Power and American Neoliberal Culture becomes a crossover book, read not only by scholars but by citizens (here and abroad) looking for a concise account of what’s going on in America today."" * Utopian Studies * ""White Power and American Neoliberal Culture is certainly a valuable resource."" * Christian Century * ""Ventura and Chan provide a necessary vista on racial capitalism’s everyday turmoil"" * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"

"""White Power and American Neoliberal Culture [illuminates] how the domestic sphere functions as a reproductive mechanism for raced and classed inequality and vehemence."" * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"

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Patricia Ventura is Associate Professor of English at Spelman College in Atlanta. Her previous work includes Neoliberal Culture: Living with American Neoliberalism. Edward K. Chan is Professor of American Studies at Waseda University in Tokyo. His previous work includes The Racial Horizon of Utopia: Unthinking the Future of Race in Late Twentieth-Century American Utopian Novels. Together the two coedited Race and Utopian Desire in American Literature and Society.

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