Making sense of the alt-right

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Label

Making sense of the alt-right

Statement of responsibility

George Hawley

Creator

• Hawley, George, (Political scientist)

Author

• Hawley, George, (Political scientist)

Subject

• Electronic books
• Political science
• Politics and culture
• Politics and culture -- United States
• truePresidential election, 2016
• Racism
• Right-wing extremists
• Right-wing extremists -- United States
• Since 1980
• Social media
• United States
• United States -- Politics and government -- 1989-
• United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-
• United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-2020
• trueWhite nationalism
• White nationalism -- United States -- History -- 21st century
• White people -- United States -- Politics and government -- 21st century
• White supremacy movements
• White supremacy movements -- United States -- History -- 21st century
• Hate groups
• trueEuropean Americans

Language

eng

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 expectation 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."--Dust jacket

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

305.80973/0905

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography