Language: English
POL042020 POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Conservatism & Liberalism POL042040 POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Radicalism SOC070000 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Race & Ethnic Relations
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: Jul 30, 2024
Description:
Tracing how the "Great Replacement" narrative has shaped far-right extremism and propelled its dangerous political projects and acts of violence
The "Great Replacement" narrative, which imagines that historic white majorities are being intentionally replaced through immigration policies crafted by global elites, has effectively mobilized racist, nationalist, and nativist movements in the United States and Europe. The Rage of Replacement tracks how this narrative has shaped the politics and worldview of the far right, binding its various camps into a community of rage obsessed with nostalgia for a white-supremacist past.
Showing how the replacement narrative has found significant purchase in recent mainstream discourse through the rise of Trumpism, right-wing media figures like Tucker Carlson, and events such as 2017's "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, Michael Feola diagnoses the dangers this racist theory poses as it shapes the...