Ebook403 pages4 hours
Rebirthing a Nation: White Women, Identity Politics, and the Internet
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
()
About this ebook
Although US history is marred by institutionalized racism and sexism, postracial and postfeminist attitudes drive our polarized politics. Violence against people of color, transgender 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.
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.
Author
Wendy K. Z. Anderson
Wendy K. Z. Anderson is an independent researcher and instructor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin-Cities. Her research interests lie at the intersection of rhetoric and digital media, where she examines how marginalized community rhetorics and critical dialogue (both in content and form) influence institutional, organizational, and infrastructural oppression to impact equity and social change.
Related to Rebirthing a Nation
Related ebooks
Bodies out of Place: Theorizing Anti-blackness in U.S. Society Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLiberal White Supremacy: How Progressives Silence Racial and Class Oppression Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Criminalization of Black Children: Race, Gender, and Delinquency in Chicago’s Juvenile Justice System, 1899–1945 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPrison Power: How Prison Influenced the Movement for Black Liberation Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Feminist War on Crime: The Unexpected Role of Women's Liberation in Mass Incarceration Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Black Elephants in the Room: The Unexpected Politics of African American Republicans Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Souls of Black Folk Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWhite Women, Rape, and the Power of Race in Virginia, 1900-1960 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWho Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect?: Police Violence and Resistance in the United States Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Slim's Table: Race, Respectability, and Masculinity Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Disability Incarcerated: Imprisonment and Disability in the United States and Canada Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAssata Taught Me: State Violence, Racial Capitalism, and the Movement for Black Lives Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Black against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Violent Order: Essays on the Nature of Police Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Blood and Politics: The History of the White Nationalist Movement from the Margins to the Mainstream Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Why Don't the Poor Rise Up?: Organizing the Twenty-First Century Resistance Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Abolition for the People: The Movement for a Future without Policing & Prisons Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Morning Breaks: The Trial of Angela Davis Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Occupied Territory: Policing Black Chicago from Red Summer to Black Power Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Building a Movement to End the New Jim Crow: an organizing guide Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Seen and Unseen: Technology, Social Media, and the Fight for Racial Justice Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5As Black as Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Exceptional Negro: Racism, White Privilege and the Lie of Respectability Politics Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBefore Gentrification: The Creation of DC's Racial Wealth Gap Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBody Battlegrounds: Transgressions, Tensions, and Transformations Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWhiteout: How Racial Capitalism Changed the Color of Opioids in America Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsToxic Ivory Towers: The Consequences of Work Stress on Underrepresented Minority Faculty Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBeyond the Pale: White Women, Racism, and History Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Popular Culture & Media Studies For You
100 Things You're Not Supposed to Know: Secrets, Conspiracies, Cover Ups, and Absurdities Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Hollywood's Dark History: Silver Screen Scandals Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Butts: A Backstory Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5And The Mountains Echoed Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Pimpology: The 48 Laws of the Game Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Thick: And Other Essays Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Communion: The Female Search for Love Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Fifties Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Truth: Sex, Love, Commitment, and the Puzzle of the Male Mind Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Regarding the Pain of Others Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Element Encyclopedia of 20,000 Dreams: The Ultimate A–Z to Interpret the Secrets of Your Dreams Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Art of Libromancy: On Selling Books and Reading Books in the Twenty-first Century Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Dream Dictionary from A to Z [Revised edition]: The Ultimate A–Z to Interpret the Secrets of Your Dreams Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America: Essays Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Devil's Notebook Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Microdosing with Amanita Muscaria: Creativity, Healing, and Recovery with the Sacred Mushroom Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for Rebirthing a Nation
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
0 ratings
0 ratings0 reviews
Book preview
Rebirthing a Nation - Wendy K. Z. Anderson
:Pa book_preview_excerpt.html }ɎI8r rTrJMPR*n$!(&z}4лFի!/sfn`(_? mvs'GǏm_>9_gً7/_dڗ.M[E.|[.瞺γo!e_ڷʾ,Jzoʷ]WﺬYfˮmau\[n]̭֫|I:쇾ljrm̻ƛ*o:]a=U|k_vͱ7y?m%zw0ɫSLhK?Zg?_=L2<+_zXZ|Vֲ(7y.Uv}m˺'SbֵB3,jVxNYyEuOMxW[b};~7ᨚ6MWa/ʶW&ja[c'N٦,<Rm˼SNﳻ\q%#9VBNz#B݉P=]ޖ[atl3!#~yB am?L Wm:Ge#ϛPS*$U11_ߏ{7PPuO+ߒGXnv/V{0 ߞxr!FUh/kh_컦U3+ӾL۫PK趿ʐ|^ V40yS _eY{nv\XoZӣe}l0裬zlW=+W7T-㨿*^-.HشwTЁA^mB/
bm~pӲM\\ScG8N=c!eeOX]FTf d
=+`ovCZdŀIհ!3=kǼ>^ˡ`[;