{"product_id":"making-sense-of-the-alt-right-9780231185134","title":"Making Sense of the Alt-Right","description":"\u003cp\u003eDuring the 2016 election, a new term entered the mainstream American political lexicon: \"alt-right,\" short for \"alternative right.\" Despite the innocuous name, the alt-right is a white-nationalist movement. Yet it differs from earlier racist groups: it is youthful and tech savvy, obsessed with provocation and trolling, amorphous, predominantly online, and mostly anonymous. And it was energized by Donald Trump's presidential campaign. In \u003ci\u003eMaking Sense of the Alt-Right\u003c\/i\u003e, George Hawley provides an accessible introduction and gives vital perspective on the emergence of a group whose overt racism has confounded expectations for a more tolerant America. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHawley explains the movement's origins, evolution, methods, and core belief in white-identity politics. The book explores how the alt-right differs from traditional white nationalism, libertarianism, and other online illiberal ideologies such as neoreaction, as well as from mainstream Republicans and even Donald Trump and Steve Bannon. The alt-right's use of offensive humor and its trolling-driven approach, based in animosity to so-called political correctness, can make it difficult to determine true motivations. Yet through exclusive interviews and a careful study of the alt-right's influential texts, Hawley is able to paint a full picture of a movement that not only disagrees with liberalism but also fundamentally rejects most of the tenets of American conservatism. Hawley points to the alt-right's growing influence and makes a case for coming to a precise understanding of its beliefs without sensationalism or downplaying the movement's radicalism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eGeorge Hawley is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Alabama. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eVoting and Migration Patterns in the U.S.\u003c\/i\u003e (2013), \u003ci\u003eWhite Voters in Twenty-First Century America\u003c\/i\u003e (2014), and \u003ci\u003eRight-Wing Critics of American Conservatism\u003c\/i\u003e (2016).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50844171305234,"sku":"9780231185134","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_86f0fe4e-143f-40ec-ad50-6be3f7e5f614.jpg?v=1737313185","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/making-sense-of-the-alt-right-9780231185134","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}