What is the alt-right? What do they believe, and how did they take center stage in the American social and political consciousness?
INTRODUCTION
The New and Old of White Nationalism
CHAPTER 1
Red Pills for the Masses: Metapolitical Awakenings
CHAPTER 2
Back to the Future: Reactionary Timescapes
CHAPTER 3
Whitopia: Ethnostate Dreamin’
CHAPTER 4
Cat Ladies, Wolves, and Lobsters: A Menagerie of Biological
Essentialism
CHAPTER 5
Living the TradLife: Babies, Butter, and the Vanishing of Bre
Faucheux
CHAPTER 6
Normalizing Nationalism: Alt-Right Creep
CONCLUSION
Decoding and Derailing White Nationalist Discourse
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
Alexandra Minna Stern is the author of the award-winning Eugenic Nation- Faults and Frontiers of Better Breeding in Modern America and Telling Genes- The Story of Genetic Counseling in America. She has contributed her insight into eugenics, ethnicity, and social movements to dozens of scholarly essays and interviews. Stern is the Carroll Smith-Rosenberg Collegiate Professor of American Culture, History, and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan, where she leads the acclaimed Sterilization and Social Justice Lab. Connect with her on her website minnastern.com.
“An important study that extends the knowledge from other recent
books that have demonstrated a stubbornly pervasive network of
white nationalists.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“An important volume for anyone interested in the future of liberal
democracy. Stern has fashioned an invaluable guide with which to
unmask a new breed of racism.”
—Shelf Awareness
“Proud Boys and the White Ethnostate is the definitive guide to
alt-right ideas today. Stern brilliantly documents how a younger
generation of activists are repackaging the Far Right, waging a
battle for cultural dominance. The internet is their home, where
they mix fascist ideologies and faux scholarship to make their case
for white/Christian/male dominance. Stern has analyzed an enormous
swath of ethno-nationalist material, sparing the rest of us from
having to engage in that odious task. Proud Boys is essential
reading in the age of Trump.”
—Arlene Stein, author of Unbound: Transgender Men and the Remaking
of Identity
“In this carefully researched book, the historian Alexandra Minna
Stern studies a wide array of online web sites, documenting a rise
in claims to whiteness as a basis of identity, as a claim to
victimhood and as an argument for a ‘white ethnostate.’ Drawing
ideas from films (‘red-pilling’ comes from The Matrix) and from the
left (the need for ‘safe spaces’), the Alt-Right, she argues, is
trying to normalize a frightening shift from talk of civic
nationalism to talk of race-based nationalism. This is very
important work we should all know about.”
—Arlie Hochschild, author of Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and
Mourning on the American Right, finalist for the National Book
Award.
“Timely, well-researched, and insightful, Proud Boys and the White
Ethnostate is a brilliant study of the alt-right’s beginnings and
current attempts to push its message of racial separation,
misogyny, white nationalism, and xenophobia into the American
mainstream. It should be read in schools and book clubs across the
nation.”
—Leo R. Chavez, author of The Latino Threat: Constructing
Immigrants, Citizens, and the Nation
“Proud Boys and the White Ethnostate lays bare the complex
intellectual, theoretical, and political commitments of an
ascendant alt-right and its use of culture, history, and identity
to build power and win broad public consent. At its heart it is a
sober warning about the ways that violence, patriarchy, and white
supremacy continue to shape the American political
imagination.”
—Daniel Martinez HoSang, coauthor of Producers, Parasites,
Patriots: Race and the New Right-Wing Politics of Precarity
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