Cyber Racism
White Supremacy Online and the New Attack on Civil Rights
1st Edition
Published on 16. March 2009
274 pages
978-0-7425-6525-8 (ISBN)
Description
In this exploration of the way racism is translated from the print-only era to the cyber era the author takes the reader through a devastatingly informative tour of white supremacy online. The book examines how white supremacist organizations have translated their printed publications onto the Internet. Included are examples of open as well as cloaked sites which disguise white supremacy sources as legitimate civil rights websites. Interviews with a small sample of teenagers as they surf the web show how they encounter cloaked sites and attempt to make sense of them, mostly unsuccessfully. The result is a first-rate analysis of cyber racism within the global information age. The author debunks the common assumptions that the Internet is either an inherently democratizing technology or an effective recruiting tool for white supremacists. The book concludes with a nuanced, challenging analysis that urges readers to rethink conventional ways of knowing about racial equality, civil rights, and the Internet.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN-13
978-0-7425-6525-8 (9780742565258)
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part 01. INTRODUCTION
- Chapter 01. White Supremacy in the Digital Era
- Chapter 02. Theorizing White Supremacy Online
- Part 02. WHITE SUPREMACY IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT
- Chapter 03. Individual Acts of White Supremacy Online
- Chapter 04. White Supremacist Social Movements Online and in a Global Context
- Part 03. WHITE SUPREMACY ONLINE
- Chapter 05. Gender, White Supremacy, and the Internet
- Chapter 06. White Supremacist Discourse: In Print and Online
- Chapter 07. Cyber Lies: Cloaked Websites
- Chapter 08. Searching for Civil Rights, Finding White Supremacy: Adolescents Making Sense of Cloaked Websites
- Part 04. FIGHTING WHITE SUPREMACY IN THE DIGITAL ERA
- Chapter 09. Combating Global White Supremacy in the Digital Era
- Chapter 10. Conclusion: Racial Justice and Civic Engagement in the Digital Era
- Methodology Appendix: On the Craft of Sociology in the Digital Era
- References
- Index
- About the Author
