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Proud boys and the white ethnostate : how the alt-right is warping the American imagination
Publication Information
Boston : Beacon Press, [2019]
Physical Description
186 pages ; 24 cm
Summary
"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 America's 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 under; to excavate;the 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-right's central texts, narratives, constructs, and insider language"--
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.