This book analyzes key popular culture artifacts linked with United States’ far-right extremism to illustrate how extremists use various narrative strategies to legitimate their interests and goals and to justify violent actions.
Priya Dixit is Associate Professor of Politics in the Political Science Department at Virginia Tech University, USA.
Chapter 1: Far-right extremism: The United States and the world.- Chapter 2: Race, International Relations, white supremacy, and methodology.- Chapter 3: Whiteness, white supremacy, and far-right extremism in the United States.- Chapter 4: American Renaissance and far-right extremists’ use of numbers and pseudoscience for legitimation of violence.- Chapter 5: Meme-ing the far-right: Pepe and the deplorables.- Chapter 6: Red pills, white genocide and “the great replacement”: Re-writing history, and constructing white victimhood in/through far-right extremist manifestos and texts.- Chapter 7: Far-right extremism and strategies of legitimation and resistance in US politics.