Frontier Myths: Settler Colonialism and Masculinity in the American Heartland

By Levi Gahman

From the first white settlers on the frontier through to the football heroes of today, masculinity has been emblematic of American culture. This ethnography looks at America's heartland--Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Iowa, Missouri, and Arkansas--to explore rural America's prevailing conceptions of masculinity. Levi Gahman spent two years living and working with white men in these communities--discussing their perspectives on everything from land, guns, citizenship, and work, to gender, sexuality, race, and disability. Through these encounters, Gahman shows how the nation's political economy subtly undergirds characteristically "masculine" attitudes of privilege and superiority, not to mention violence, and suggests that masculine white supremacy in America is lodged deep in the very fabric of nationhood itself.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745338224
• ISBN13: 9780745338224
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
• Length: 176 Pages