{"id":2655,"date":"2019-10-01T08:00:14","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T13:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/?p=2655"},"modified":"2019-09-30T18:45:20","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T23:45:20","slug":"white-nationalism-in-the-21st-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/2019\/10\/01\/white-nationalism-in-the-21st-century\/","title":{"rendered":"White Nationalism in the 21st Century"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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We at The Society Pages <\/em>have written about the study of \u201cwhite supremacy<\/a>\u201d in social science. This term can be used to describe overarching patterns of privilege and power that favor whites or a term that bigotry, prejudice, and belief that whites are a superior race. It may be easy to think that this latter meaning has become less relevant in the contemporary, \u201cpost-racial\u201d world, but this is not the case. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In recent years, beliefs about the superiority of whites have actually re-emerged within the political mobilization of populist attitudes, anti-immigrant sentiment, and Right-wing political beliefs in Western democracies. To capture these distinctive and troubling realities, scholars, reporters, and cultural commentators have increasingly begun to use the term \u201cwhite nationalism.\u201d White nationalism is not just a remnant of outdated, obsolete prejudice; rather, it is has been reconfigured and revitalized for the new global world.
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Modern white nationalist rhetoric constructs the image of a historically white country and populace under attack amidst a world of 21st-century immigration, globalization, and shifting racial landscapes. By advancing nativist rhetoric and mobilizing such sentiments in the political arena, white nationalist organizations forwarded understandings of \u201cwhite\u201d that draw on the idea that the Western world is meant for white people. This has had important political consequences in the USA and Europe; politicians and parties who advance anti-immigration platforms have been bolstered by these dynamics.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n