Abstract
The focus of the chapter is mainstream articles about Breanna Mitchell, a white American teenage girl who took a smiling selfie at the Auschwitz Concentration Camp and posted it on her public Twitter account with the line “Selfie in the Auschwitz Concentration Camp” accompanied by a blushing smiling emoticon. Predictably, a month after Mitchell posted the selfie, it sparked public outrage and went viral. Paradoxically, in the news stories about Mitchell, she is at first condemned as narcissistic for her display of happy emotion at Auschwitz, but then presented as sympathetic for her exhibition of authentic feeling for her father who had passed away a year earlier. This chapter begins a discussion that continues in the next chapters about how agency for white women, and the display of appropriate authentic emotion, are in tension: the less agency white middle-class women exhibit, the more authentic they appear.
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