{"product_id":"9780226492773","title":"Lovable Racists, Magical Negroes, and White Messiahs","description":"In this incredibly timely book, David Ikard dismantles popular white supremacist tropes, which effectively devalue black life and trivialize black oppression. \u003ci\u003eLovable Racists, Magical Negroes, and White Messiahs\u003c\/i\u003e investigates the tenacity and cultural capital of white redemption narratives in literature and popular media from \u003ci\u003eUncle Tom’s Cabin\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eThe Help\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In the book, Ikard explodes the fiction of a postracial society while awakening us to the sobering reality that we must continue to fight for racial equality or risk losing the hard-fought gains of the Civil Rights movement. Through his close reading of novels, films, journalism, and political campaigns, he analyzes willful white blindness and attendant master narratives of white redemption—arguing powerfully that he who controls the master narrative controls the perception of reality. The book sounds the alarm about seemingly innocuous tropes of white redemption that abound in our society and generate the notion that blacks are perpetually indebted to whites for liberating, civilizing, and enlightening them. In \u003ci\u003eLovable Racists, Magical Negroes, and White Messiahs\u003c\/i\u003e, Ikard expertly and unflinchingly gives us a necessary critical historical intervention.","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47120162619632,"sku":"9780226492773","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780226492773_p0.jpg?v=1763674597","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780226492773","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}