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Priya Dixit
Priya Dixit is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Virginia Tech. She has written about terrorism and political violence in Nepal, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Her first book, The State and ‘Terrorists’ in Nepal and Northern Ireland (Manchester University Press, 2015), analyzed how states categorize events and actors as “terrorist” and the implications of such categorization. Her most recent book, Race, Popular Culture, and Generically used to describe factions of right-wing politics that are outside of and often critical of traditional conservatism. Learn more Extremism in the United States (Palgrave, 2022), examined US far-right extremists’ use of popular culture to justify their An ideology that assumes a hierarchy of human worth based on the social construction of racial difference. Racism as an ideology claims superiority of the socially constructed category, White, over other racialized categories based on the false idea that race is a fixed and immutable reality. Learn more and violence.
