Proud boys and the white ethnostate : how the alt-right is warping the American imagination

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Proud boys and the white ethnostate : how the alt-right is warping the American imagination

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how the alt-right is warping the American imagination

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Alexandra Minna Stern

Creator

• Stern, Alexandra Minna, 1966-

Author

• Stern, Alexandra Minna, 1966-

Subject

• Hate groups -- United States
• Right-wing extremists -- United States
• White nationalism -- United States
• White supremacy movements -- United States

Language

eng

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"--

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YDX

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index present

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non fiction

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bibliography