- Description
- 1 online resource (xiii, 250 pages)
- 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"--
- Series Statement
- Race, rhetoric, & media series
- Uniform Title
- Rebirthing a nation (Online)
- Race, rhetoric, and media series.
- Alternative Title
- Rebirthing a nation (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-242) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- 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.
- LCCN
- 2021006485
- OCLC
- ssj0002836887
- Author
Anderson, Wendy K. Z.
- Title
Rebirthing a nation [electronic resource] : white women, identity politics, and the internet / Wendy K. Z. Anderson.
- Imprint
Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2021]
- Series
Race, rhetoric, & media series
Race, rhetoric, and media series.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-242) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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