Proud Boys and the White Ethnostate
How the Alt-right is Warping the American Imagination
Boston, Massachusetts : Beacon Press, [2019]
Format: Book
Description: 186 pages ; 24 cm
"From a loose movement that lurked in the shadows in the early 2000s, the alt-right has achieved a level of visibility that has allowed it to expand significantly through Americas cultural, political, and digital landscapes. Yet it is also mercurial and shape-shifting, encompassing a spectrum of ideas and believers that resonate with white supremacy, right-wing nationalism, and anti-feminism. The alt-right offers a big and porous tent to those who subscribe to varying forms of race- and gender-based exclusion and endorse white identity politics. To understand the contemporary moment, historian Alexandra Minna Stern knew she needed to get underto excavatethe alt-right memes and tropes that had erupted online. In Proud Boys and the White Ethnostate, she does just that, applying the tools of the scholar to explore the alt-rights central texts, narratives, constructs, and insider language"-- Publisher's description.
Contents:
The new and old of white nationalism -- Red pills for the masses: metapolitical awakenings -- Back to the future: reactionary timescapes -- Whitopia: ethnostate dreamin' -- Cat ladies, wolves and lobsters: a menagerie of biological essentialism -- Living the TradLife: babies, butter, and the vanishing of Bre Fauxcheux -- Normalizing nationalism: alt-right creep -- Decoding and derailing white nationalist discourse.
Subjects:
Right-wing extremists -- United States.
White supremacy movements -- United States.
White nationalism -- United States.
Hate groups -- United States.
Right-wing extremists -- United States.
White supremacy movements -- United States.
White nationalism -- United States.
Hate groups -- United States.
ISBN:
0807063363
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SOCIAL SCI Ste | Northeast Indoors | Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references and index.