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Speculative Whiteness

Science Fiction and the Alt-Right
By Jordan S. Carroll
Series: Forerunners: Ideas First
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Reveals the alt-right's project to claim science fiction and, by extension, the future. Fascists such as Richard Spencer interpret science fiction films and literature as suggesting that only white men have the imagination required to invent a high-tech future. Other white nationalists envision racist utopias filled... Read More
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Reveals the alt-right's project to claim science fiction and by extension the future.

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Reveals the alt-right's project to claim science fiction and, by extension, the future.

Fascists such as Richard Spencer interpret science fiction films and literature as suggesting that only white men have the imagination required to invent a high-tech future. Other white nationalists envision racist utopias filled with Aryan supermen and all-white space colonies. Speculative Whiteness traces these ideas through the entangled histories of science fiction culture and white supremacist politics, showing that debates about representation in science fiction films and literature are struggles over who has the right to imagine and inhabit the future. Although fascists insist that tomorrow belongs to them, they have always been and will continue to be contested by antifascist fans willing to fight for the future.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781517917081

Publisher: University of Minnesota Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 22 October 2024

Country: United States

Imprint: University of Minnesota Press

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 5.0mm

Width: 127.0mm

Height: 178.0mm

Weight: 113g

Pages: 120

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Arts & Culture Fantasy General Fiction Jordan S. Carroll Non-Fiction Sci-Fi & Fantasy Science Fiction Series: Forerunners: Ideas First

About the Author

Jordan S. Carroll is author of Reading the Obscene: Transgressive Editors and the Class Politics of US Literature, which won the MLA Prize for Independent Scholars.

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