The Rise of Trump and the Mainstreaming of White Nationalism

The show of outmatch and the Mainstreaming of etiolated NationalismTweet beset The Rise of Trump and the Mainstreaming of White NationalismThe opening character reference for The College of New Jerseys Womens History calendar month 2017 was a talk given by Dr. Jessie Daniels titled Tweet Storm The Rise of Trump, the Mainstreaming of White Nationalism, the Real terror to Building Just and sustainable Communities. The talk took place in The College of New Jerseys Library Atrium on manifest 8, 2017 and began with Dr. Janet Gray introducing Daniels by detailing her impressive academic history. Dr. Daniels is a professor of sociology at Hunter College and at the Graduate Center at CUNY who specializes in critical social psychology. She is internationally fleckd as an expert in the expression of racism on the internet and the author of two books, White Lies and Cyber Racism, which were the basis of her talk.Daniels opened her talk by runner recognizing that the material she wou ld be covering, while important, could be triggering to some members of the audience and promised to not have the antisemitic and racist imagery on display for longer than necessary. She then goes on to explain how she views etiolated nationalism as a serious, growing affright to developing just and sustainable communities and that she will be discussing these ideas in the place setting of the most recent U.S. election. Daniels uses her two books, which were accidently written on either billet of the internet (Daniels), to examine the growth and change in the sporty triumph movement and system in the United States due to the drastic plus in availability of the internet in the late 1990s. White Lies focuses on white supremacists printed publications (Daniels) and is a vicenary analysis of 400 publications from quintette unlike white supremacist organizations (Daniels). From her analysis, Daniels first argues that white domination is gendered both in regards to the vatic p ositive attributes of whites and the supposed negative attributes of non-whites. Her fleck aim is that the rhetoric of white command is similar to the popular political rhetoric around unravel in general. mend this may be extremely apparent to us to sidereal day, when White Lies was published in 1997 these observations and analysis were novel both in academia and in social justice communities.In her second book, Cyber Racism, Daniels revisits the five groups explored in White Lies to see if had they made this transition did they make it crosswise the internet on to doing white supremacy digitally (Daniels). She did a quantitative content analysis of Stormfrontanda quasi-experimental in-depth interview designbased on web usability studies (Daniels). One of her major findings is white supremacists use of disguise sites, which she defines as sites that intentionally disguised authorship in order to conceal a political agenda (Daniels), and that racism is changing due to the digit al revolution. While this is not surprising, her second finding that students are willing to consider info given on these cloaked sites if asked but are usually deterred by the un master look to the sites is terrifying in its implications. Daniels argues that the goal of white supremacists is to gainsay these moral and political victories, like the abolition of slavery, to say lets debate that once again (Daniels). This gives white supremacy legitimacy as a reasonable moorage to hold that can be debated and has caused the United States to be a harbor for white supremacy.Our elucidate has spent a significant amount of judgment of conviction talking about white privilege especially in federation to current events such as the Womens March last January and the continuing hold water in police brutality against concourse of color. I believe Daniels second book Cyber Racism and its conclusions could have added another dimension to those discussions since we did not explicitly tou ch on white supremacy in any of them. Daniels line that racism has drastically changed due to the digital revolution promptly connects to my piteous presentation on Native Feminism on our second day of class. During that presentation, I included a quote from Sydne Rain which included the gunstock The tone-deafness of all these angry white supremacists around me. Their lack of care.. The use of white supremacists in the quote portrays the new white supremacy exposed by Daniels in her second book. White supremacy is now much more(prenominal) cloaked than it has been in the past which has led to many average people holding beliefs that are characterized as white supremacists beliefs. Rain touches upon several realities directly caused by historic and current white supremacy but the average person would not label many of these realities as white supremacy because they only recognize the pre-internet version of the system.This talk also spoke to a topic we have only briefly covered in class but will go more in-depth with in the near future tense cyber feminism. Cyber feminism was coined in the 1990s as a way to describe how feminists were critiquing, theorizing about, and using the internet for feminist work. Daniels directly, but probably not purposely, turn to this idea when discussing the revolution of the internet Then one day I went to bed and when I woke up everyone had the internet. While Daniels never mentions cyber feminism in her talk, her description of how she became interesting in using the internet as a tool for research on racism, white supremacy, and how the internet impacted the issue of white supremacy on young adults was essentially the definition of cyber feminism. I believe this talk will inform the classroom discussion on cyber feminism when we reach the topic especially since at least half(a) the class attended the talk.Overall, I found the talk to be informatory and enjoyable and the speaker to be conscientious and willing to add ress involved issues that do not have easy answers. I was glad Daniels took the first few minutes of her talk to recognize that the images she would be showing could be triggering for some members of the audience and to promise to only have them on the screen door for as long as she needed. The fact that she took time to do this and followed through with(predicate) on her promise, especially in reference to the anti-semitic images with the recent attacks and threats on Jewish communities, told me she was extremely conscientious and aware of what she was presenting. It was during the questioning part of the event after the talk where she showed how willing she was to address complex issues. I asked a rather difficult question about where she thinks the future of white supremacy is going, both in the short and long term, and how she thinks changing demographics of the United States would affect this. She did not dismiss my question and answered it to the best of her ability in my o pinion. Daniels argument about how students analyze online sources, especially cloaked sites, has been one of the largest take-aways for me. On a personal level, I wonder if I am guilty of dismissing a cloaked site simply due to graphics and if I would recognize these sites for what they are if they did have more professional designs. On a professional level as a teacher, I wonder how my students are interacting with these cloaked sites. Ultimately, this event left me concerned and wondering how I could address these topics with my make students.Work CitedDaniels, Jessica. Tweet Storm The Rise of Trump, the Mainstreaming of White Nationalism, the Real Threat to Building Just and Sustainable Communities. Womens History Month 2017, The College of New Jersey, 8 March 2017, The College of New Jersey Library, Ewing, NJ, Lecture.hokte (sydnerain). And it makes me so, so fucking angry to type this. The tone-deafness of all these angry white supremacists around me. Their lack of care. 22 January 2017, 845 PM. Tweet.