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The Public Eye, Spring 2019

In this issue

The Intersectional Right

A Roundtable on Gender and White Supremacy
Blue Mountain Center convening participants

In the early 1990s, when researcher and activist Loretta Ross was monitoring the White supremacist movement for the Center for Democratic Renewal, a national anti-Ku Klux Klan network, she realized that most fight-the-Right organizations were…

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Aberration or Reflection? How to Understand Changes on the Political Right

Ronald Reagan gives his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention, July 1980.

Trump’s election was less an aberration than a reflection of changes in the New Right coalition, which brought business elites, evangelicals, and neoconservatives together under the Republican umbrella in the late 1970s and has underpinned the party…

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The Proud Boys

A Republican Party Street Gang
Gavin McInnes, founder of the Proud Boys

The Proud Boys became a national focus in October 2018 when independent journalist Sandi Bachom posted video of a violent confrontation in New York City.

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In Search of New Frames

Q&A with the authors of Producers, Parasites, Patriots
Tea Party rally in Plano, TX, April 15, 2009

A new book, Producers, Parasites, Patriots: Race and the New Right-Wing Politics of Precarity, offers a framework for interpreting and dismantling racist capitalist oppression without getting bogged down in this treacherous narrative of “makers and…

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