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Proud Boys and the White Ethnostate

How the Alt-Right Is Warping the American Imagination

by Alexandra Minna Stern
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What is the alt-right? What do they believe, and how did they take center stage in the American social and political consciousness?
Historian Alexandra Minna Stern excavates the alt-right memes that have erupted online and digs to the root of the far right’s motivations: their deep-seated fear of an oncoming “white genocide” that can only be remedied through aggressive action to reclaim white power. The alt-right has expanded significantly throughout America’s cultural, political, and digital landscapes: racist, sexist, and homophobic beliefs that were previously unspeakable have become commonplace, normalized, and accepted—endangering American democracy and society as a whole. When asked to address the Proud Boys and growing far right violence, President Trump directed the group to “stand back and stand by;” and just two weeks before President Joe Biden’s inauguration, a white supremacist mob breached the US Capitol—earning praise from the Proud Boys leader amongst threats of future violence. In order to dismantle the destructive movement that has invaded our public consciousness and threatens American democracy, we must first understand the core beliefs that drive the alt-right.
Through careful analysis, Stern brings awareness to the underlying concepts that guide the alt-right and its overlapping forms of racism, xenophobia, and transphobia. She explains the key ideas of “red-pilling,” strategic trolling, gender essentialism, and the alt-right’s ultimate fantasy: a future where minorities have been “cleansed” from the body politic and a white ethnostate is established in the United States. By unearthing the hidden mechanisms that power white nationalism, Stern reveals just how pervasive the far right truly is.

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    July 16, 2019

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      • ISBN: 9780807063385

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    • Kirkus

      April 15, 2019
      A deep dive into the so-called "alt-right" in which the author "seeks to expose the underlying logic and implications of white nationalism and its master plan of a racially exclusive patriarchal world." As defined by Stern (History, Women's Studies, Obstetrics/Univ. of Michigan; Telling Genes: The Story of Genetic Counseling in America, 2012, etc.), the key element of the alt-right is white nationalism. Most of the individuals and organizations portrayed here branch out after that common denominator. Some emphasize peaceful but total separation of whites from people of color while others seek to bring violence against those seen as a threat to their hegemony. Almost every alt-right influencer is male, and they all exhibit varying degrees of misogyny. Other targets of their enmity include gay and transgender individuals and Jews. While alt-right devotees clearly do not dominate government or civic life in the United States, they are widespread and determined. Stern argues that her research--mostly stemming from copious online evidence posted publicly--has not led her to "trivialize nor sensationalize the alt-right" even when their platform "inhabits the gutters of political discourse." At intervals, the author, who leads the Sterilization and Social Justice Lab at Michigan, delves into the lengthy history of alt-right and similar movements, within both the U.S and Europe, and she also investigates the adulation of Donald Trump as an enabler of the movement. The alt-right standards for determining who qualifies as white--and who does not--can become complicated; Stern illuminates that element with impressive insights. An anomaly that not even the author can explain involves why alt-right subscribers fear annihilation so deeply when the U.S. remains controlled by a powerful white patriarchy. Stern's prose is frequently lively, though it sometimes lapses into academic jargon. An important study that extends the knowledge from other recent books that have demonstrated a stubbornly pervasive network of white nationalists.

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