〈著作紹介〉
University of California Press, 刊行日2023/04/11, 新書判 ページ数 168ページ ISBNコード9780520392793
White Power and American Neoliberal Culture analyzes and contextualizes the contemporary white ethnonational ideology and violence that is the current form of radicalized white supremacy. We refer to this violent ideology as “white power,” and it menaces the US today. White power was on display so spectacularly in the US Capitol insurrection on January 6, 2021, but actually has consistently emerged around the nation over the past fifty years. This half century also saw the rise of American neoliberalism into a culturally dominant force shaped by the current form of racial capitalism. Bringing neoliberalism and white power together is key, especially for those wanting to understand this interrelation from the perspectives offered by American Studies, cultural studies, critical race studies, literature, political science, and sociology. We find that both formations rely on the white heteropatriarchal family as the pivot point for their worldviews, which in turn enables each formation to shape American daily life. Indeed, white power aligns with and supports neoliberalism’s goals not by happenstance but by their shared roots in a patriarchal racial capitalism. White power ideology works within American neoliberal culture to lead us to our current moment where racial violence coalesces not only in the imagination of white power authors and meme warriors but also as a brutal political and violent extremist movement.
〈研究内容紹介〉
Using artifacts such as extremist manifestos and white power utopian novels alongside neoliberal think tank reports and neoconservative policy statements, the book argues that to understand either white power or American neoliberal culture, we need to study each in relation to the other. We draw on scholarship on white supremacy, neoliberalism, and race from a variety of disciplines, such as history, sociology, and political science. However, our work foregrounds the neoliberal–white power nexus, especially as seen through the white family and white power manifestos and novels.
早稲田大学文学学術院教授
チャン エドワード ケイ（Edward K. CHAN）
Chan has taught English and American Studies at Aichi Univ. (2011-16) and Kennesaw State Univ. (US, 2003-11), where he directed the Interdisciplinary Studies
program. He was also Bryant Drake Guest Professor at Kobe College (2008-9). Research/teaching interests: 20th/21st-century American literary/film/popular culture, focusing on race, utopia, and transnational American culture (especially connections with Japan). Degrees: PhD, American literature, Univ. of Rochester (US); MA, English literature, Calif. State Univ., Fullerton; BA, English literature, Univ. of Calif., Riverside. Publications: “Race in the Blade Runner Cycle and Demographic Dystopia” (2020, Science Fiction Film and Television); “The White Power Utopia and the Reproduction of Victimized Whiteness” (2019, Race and Utopian Desire in American Literature and Society, Palgrave Macmillan); “Inhabiting the Space of the Other: Josef von Sternberg’s Anatahan” (2017, Projecting the World, Wayne State Univ.); The Racial Horizon of Utopia: Unthinking the Future of Race in Late Twentieth-Century American Utopian Novels (2016, Ralahine Utopian Studies); “Un-canning the Canny: McDonald’s Japan and the Mr. James Saga” (2014, Historic Engagements with Occidental Cultures, Palgrave Macmillan); “Food and Cassettes: Encounters with Indian Filmsong” (2008, Global Bollywood, Univ. of Minnesota); “On Returning: ‘America’ in The Fifth Element and Kal Ho Naa Ho” (2005, Genre); “(Vulgar) Identity Politics in Outer Space: Delany’s Triton and the Heterotopian Narrative” (2001, Journal of Narrative Theory).
