Making Sense of the Alt-Right

List of 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

About the author

George Hawley is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Alabama. He is the author of Voting and Migration Patterns in the U.S. (2013), White Voters in Twenty-First Century America (2014), and Right-Wing Critics of American Conservatism (2016).

Summary

During the 2016 election, a new term entered the American political lexicon: “alt-right.” George Hawley provides an accessible introduction to this troubling racist movement, detailing its origins, evolution, methods, and core belief in white nationalism through exclusive interviews and a careful study of the alt-right’s influential texts.

Product details

• Authors: George Hawley, Hawley George
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.08.2019
• EAN: 9780231185134
• ISBN: 978-0-231-18513-4
• No. of pages: 232
• Dimensions: 131 mm x 210 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, Ethnic Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Radicalism, Social discrimination & inequality, United States of America, USA, Elections & referenda, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, Conservatism & right-of-centre democratic ideologies, Right-of-centre democratic ideologies, Elections and referenda / suffrage, Social discrimination and social justice, radicalism; political ideologies