Alt-right gangs : a hazy shade of white / Shannon E. Reid and Matthew Valasik.

"Alt-Right Gangs provides a timely and necessary discussion of youth-oriented groups in the white power movement. Focusing on how alt-right gangs fit into current research on street gangs, Shannon E. Reid and Matthew Valasik catalog the myths and realities around alt-right gangs and their members; i...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Reid, Shannon E., 1981- (Author)
Valasik, Matthew (Author)
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2020]
Subjects:
Right-wing extremists > United States.
Right-wing extremists.
United States.
Physical Description:x, 191 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The dilemma of definitions and categorizations
  • Myths and realities surrounding Alt-Right gangs
  • Alt-Right gangs' broken toys : risk factors for membership and gang formation
  • Identity and ideology : music, culture, and "Hitler stuff"
  • Alt-Right gangs' use of space
  • The leaderless resistance of online memes and hate
  • Criminality and violence
  • The Alt-Reich in the twenty-first century : dealing with "The Upside Down"
  • Appendix : operationalization of Alt-Right gang definition.