Screened by postures of innocence, professions of good intention, and the disappearing act of ambient ubiquity, white supremacy remains stubbornly evasive in the face of scrutiny. David Ikard, Mark C. Jerng, and Eric Lott share an agenda to find methods and archives for getting past this evasiveness, honing scholarly strategies for rendering the ways of white supremacy newly visible and diagnosable. Yet while their questions overlap, their approaches differ considerably. This is most obvious at the level of method. Ikard and Jerng depart from the case study organization of many critical monographs, opting to get at the quotidian nature of white supremacy by foregrounding, respectively, the popular tropes and genres driving its social reproduction. Lott, on the other hand, opts for case studies, an organization that leads Black Mirror to emphasize what it sees as the destabilizing tensions within white supremacy more so than the structures of its hegemony.
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