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Making Sense of the Alt-Right / George Hawley.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780231185127
  • 9780231546003
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.80973/0905 23
LOC classification:
  • E184.A1 H3377 2017
  • E184.A1 H377 2017
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Alt-Right's Goals and Predecessors -- 2. The First Wave of the Alt-Right -- 3. The Alt-Right Returns -- 4. The Alt-Right Attack on the Conservative Movement -- 5. The Alt-Right and the 2016 Election -- 6. The "Alt-Lite" -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index
Summary: During the 2016 election, a new term entered the mainstream American political lexicon: "alt-right," short for "alternative right." Despite the innocuous name, the alt-right is a white-nationalist movement. Yet it differs from earlier racist groups: it is youthful and tech savvy, obsessed with provocation and trolling, amorphous, predominantly online, and mostly anonymous. And it was energized by Donald Trump's presidential campaign. In Making Sense of the Alt-Right, George Hawley provides an accessible introduction and gives vital perspective on the emergence of a group whose overt racism has confounded expectations for a more tolerant America.Hawley explains the movement's origins, evolution, methods, and core belief in white-identity politics. The book explores how the alt-right differs from traditional white nationalism, libertarianism, and other online illiberal ideologies such as neoreaction, as well as from mainstream Republicans and even Donald Trump and Steve Bannon. The alt-right's use of offensive humor and its trolling-driven approach, based in animosity to so-called political correctness, can make it difficult to determine true motivations. Yet through exclusive interviews and a careful study of the alt-right's influential texts, Hawley is able to paint a full picture of a movement that not only disagrees with liberalism but also fundamentally rejects most of the tenets of American conservatism. Hawley points to the alt-right's growing influence and makes a case for coming to a precise understanding of its beliefs without sensationalism or downplaying the movement's radicalism.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Alt-Right's Goals and Predecessors -- 2. The First Wave of the Alt-Right -- 3. The Alt-Right Returns -- 4. The Alt-Right Attack on the Conservative Movement -- 5. The Alt-Right and the 2016 Election -- 6. The "Alt-Lite" -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index

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During the 2016 election, a new term entered the mainstream American political lexicon: "alt-right," short for "alternative right." Despite the innocuous name, the alt-right is a white-nationalist movement. Yet it differs from earlier racist groups: it is youthful and tech savvy, obsessed with provocation and trolling, amorphous, predominantly online, and mostly anonymous. And it was energized by Donald Trump's presidential campaign. In Making Sense of the Alt-Right, George Hawley provides an accessible introduction and gives vital perspective on the emergence of a group whose overt racism has confounded expectations for a more tolerant America.Hawley explains the movement's origins, evolution, methods, and core belief in white-identity politics. The book explores how the alt-right differs from traditional white nationalism, libertarianism, and other online illiberal ideologies such as neoreaction, as well as from mainstream Republicans and even Donald Trump and Steve Bannon. The alt-right's use of offensive humor and its trolling-driven approach, based in animosity to so-called political correctness, can make it difficult to determine true motivations. Yet through exclusive interviews and a careful study of the alt-right's influential texts, Hawley is able to paint a full picture of a movement that not only disagrees with liberalism but also fundamentally rejects most of the tenets of American conservatism. Hawley points to the alt-right's growing influence and makes a case for coming to a precise understanding of its beliefs without sensationalism or downplaying the movement's radicalism.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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