Dangerous Innocence - White Men, Mass Culture, and the Southern Outsider's Appeal, 1960-2020

Investigates how prevailing constructions of white masculinity in the US South help feed and reinforce systems of racial inequity. Tracing the rise of the `southern outsider- in literature and on television from 1960 to 2020, William P. Murray probes white Americans- enduring desire to assert their own blamelessness.