D. Travers Scott is Professor of Media and Communication at Emory & Henry University, USA.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Counting in the Ivory Tower 1. Toward a Theory of Convenience: A Special Interest in Entanglements 2. Charles Guiteau, Criminal Insanity, and Intra-actions of Directional Convenience 3. The Convenient Solution of Electroshock: Efficacy and Functional Pleasures of Accomplishment 4. Inconvenient Populations: GenX, ‘Trainables,’ and Olds5. Rehabilitation Skepticism: The Cinematic Imaginary of Mark Bingham, the Refusal of Franklin Hardesty6. Inconvenience Gain: Three Examples from The Great Inconvenience Bibliography About the AuthorIndex

Convenient Discrimination offers a thoughtful and timely investigation into the unconscious discourses – convenience chief among them – that perpetuate discrimination in the 21st century. D. Travers Scott asks us to challenge our reliance on discourses of convenience and examine the racism, ableism, misogyny, homophobia, and other forms of hate it so often masks. Ranging in subject matter from film to autoethnography to US presidential history, Scott reaches surprising conclusions, asking new and provocative questions about how convenience functions in our rancorous, divided culture.