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Rebirthing a Nation : White Women, Identity Politics, and the Internet
Title
Rebirthing a Nation : White Women, Identity Politics, and the Internet / Wendy K.Z. Anderson.
ISBN
9781496832818
1496832817
9781496832764
9781496832771
1496832779
Publication
Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2021.
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021
Copyright Notice Date
©2021.
Physical Description
1 online resource (224 pages).
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Summary
"Although US history is marred by institutionalized racism and sexism, postracial and postfeminist attitudes drive our polarized politics. Violence against people of color, transgendered and gay people, and women soar upon the backdrop of Donald Trump, Tea Party affiliates, alt-right members like Richard Spencer, and right-wing political commentators like Milo Yiannopoulos who defend their racist and sexist commentary through legalistic claims of freedom of speech. While more institutions recognize the volatility of these white men's speech, few notice or have thoughtfully considered the role of white nationalist, alt-right, and conservative white women's messages that organizationally preserve white supremacy. In Rebirthing a Nation: White Women, Identity Politics, and the Internet, author Wendy K. Z. Anderson details how white nationalist and alt-right women refine racist rhetoric and web design as a means of protection and simultaneous instantiation of white supremacy, which conservative political actors including Sarah Palin, Donald Trump, Kellyanne Conway, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, and Ivanka Trump have amplified through transnational politics. By validating racial fears and political divisiveness through coded white identity politics, postfeminist and motherhood discourse functions as a colorblind, gilded cage. Rebirthing a Nation reveals how white nationalist women utilize colorblind racism within digital space, exposing how a postfeminist framework becomes fodder for conservative white women's political speech to preserve institutional white supremacy"-- Provided by publisher.
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Project MUSE complete collection 2021.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 17, 2023
Series
Race, rhetoric, and media series
Contents
Section One: Collective voices of white nationalist women. Safety for white people only through nationalism: decoding rhetorical refinement of white supremacist values ; <Freedom of speech> without responsibility: unmasking a privilege filter of color-blind racism as a white supremacist ideograph ; Classifying whiteness as "contained agency": decrypting white nationalist women's digital design through understanding intersectional analysis
Section two: Individual women's voices as institutional coding of white supremacy. White outsiderism as white identity politics: situating Tea Party rhetoric as uncivil testing grounds ; Reckoning with white fragility by alt-right shield maidens: disassembling "contained agency" of the alt-right ; Responsibility of a white "privilege filter": dismantling conservative white women as color-blind maiden shields
Epilogue: Amplifying intersectionality as an ethical response.
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