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Men will take over public discourse on the Capitol Siege (ht @beccalew) But women have dominated research on the American far-right. We’re fighting the patriarchy & the pandemic, so we may not have time to answer every media request, craft an op-ed, or post the perfect THREAD...
Aside from my book, The Revolution That Wasn't: How Digital Activism Favors Conservatives ( @Harvard_Press), here is a thread of 10 books by women academics who did cutting-edge research on the far-right movement. Read them... https://www.amazon.com/Revolution-That-Wasnt-Activism-Conservatives/dp/0674972333
Don’t miss "The Branding of Right-Wing Activism by Khadijah Costley White" @khadastrophic – looks at the role of the news media in the Tea Party movement (key precursor to Jan 6 events) https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-branding-of-right-wing-activism-9780190879310?cc=us&lang=en&
One of the early scholars to document the far-right media was Sarah @sobieraj, in her co-authored book, "The Outrage Industry: Political Opinion Media and the New Incivility" https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-outrage-industry-9780199928972?cc=us&lang=en&
Sociologist Jennifer Carlson @jdawncarlson has 2 books using extensive interviews and ethnography of the gun movement: "Policing the Second Amendment: Guns, Law Enforcement, and the Politics of Race"
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"Citizen-Protectors: The Everyday Politics of Guns..." https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691183855/policing-the-second-amendment
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"Citizen-Protectors: The Everyday Politics of Guns..." https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691183855/policing-the-second-amendment
Jessie Daniels @jessieNYC was one of the 1st scholars to research the far-right online, especially white supremacy. This book was very influential to my work (but she has others): "Cyber Racism: White Supremacy Online and the New Attack on Civil Rights" https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780742561588/Cyber-Racism-White-Supremacy-Online-and-the-New-Attack-on-Civil-Rights
Let’s not forget "The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism" by Theda Skocpol and Vanessa Williamson https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-tea-party-and-the-remaking-of-republican-conservatism-9780190633660?cc=us&lang=en&
Tina @fetner is a guru of key social movement questions related to the far-right. Ok, it's not a book, but here’s one of her articles: "The Tea Party: Manufactured Dissent or Complex Social Movement?" https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0094306112462557a
A prolific scholar on digital media and the far-right (including comparisons with left groups), @DeanaRohlinger1, has lots of articles, but here is one of her books: "Abortion Politics, Mass Media, and Social Movements in America" https://www.cambridge.org/fr/academic/subjects/sociology/political-sociology/abortion-politics-mass-media-and-social-movements-america?format=HB&isbn=9781107069237
For historical insight, Kathleen Blee’s book was a big eye opener for me when it came out – it traces the Klan’s growth in the Midwest (where I’m from) piercing the "only in the South" myth: "Women of the Klan: Racism and Gender in the 1920s" https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520257870/women-of-the-klan
Another great historical read is Kirsten Delegard’s @MapPrejudice "Battling Miss Bolsheviki: The Origins of Female Conservatism in the United States" https://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/14911.html
And be on the lookout for books by @beccalew and other young scholar women studying white supremacist and extremist groups
I'm sure I've forgotten some women academics who've spent time researching and publishing on the far-right, but I gotta go make dinner for my family...
I'm sure I've forgotten some women academics who've spent time researching and publishing on the far-right, but I gotta go make dinner for my family...
