{"id":429,"date":"2016-12-10T00:22:59","date_gmt":"2016-12-10T00:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/?p=429"},"modified":"2016-12-10T00:22:59","modified_gmt":"2016-12-10T00:22:59","slug":"scholars-study-alt-right-movement-defined-white-supremacists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/2016\/12\/10\/scholars-study-alt-right-movement-defined-white-supremacists\/","title":{"rendered":"The Scholars Who Study the Alt-Right, a Movement Defined by White Supremacists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">E<\/span>ver since Donald J. Trump was elected president last month, public discussion about the small, fringe movement known as the alt-right has exploded. Its members support a wide range of extremist views, including those that are anti-Semitic, white supremacist, and misogynist, and they supported Mr. Trump enthusiastically.<\/p>\n<p>The handful of academics who study the alt-right are being tapped time and time again to explain where the movement came from and what it means as anxiety builds about the alt-right, which counts white supremacists like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chronicle.com\/article\/White-Supremacist-Describes\/238515\">Richard B. Spencer<\/a> among its standard-bearers.<\/p>\n<p>People drawn to the alt-right have for years operated anonymously in obscure corners of the internet. But when Mr. Trump became the Republican Party\u2019s presidential candidate, the movement &#8220;was able to really troll its way into mainstream conversation,&#8221; says George Hawley, an assistant professor of political science at the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa.<\/p>\n<p>It gained significant attention in August, when Hillary Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee, <a href=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_soeyHVrawY\">denounced<\/a> Mr. Trump for having ties to the extreme movement, and when Stephen K. Bannon, a former executive of Breitbart News, was tapped to run Mr. Trump\u2019s campaign. Mr. Bannon <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2016\/08\/stephen-bannon-donald-trump-alt-right-breitbart-news\">has called Breitbart<\/a> &#8220;the platform for the alt-right,&#8221; though he denies that the website is in any way associated with the movement.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chronicle.com\/article\/The-Scholars-Who-Study-the\/238588\">Read the entire post here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since Donald J. Trump was elected president last month, public discussion about the small, fringe movement known as the alt-right has exploded. Its members support a wide range of extremist views, including those that are anti-Semitic, white supremacist, and misogynist, and they supported Mr. Trump enthusiastically. The handful of academics who study the alt-right&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/2016\/12\/10\/scholars-study-alt-right-movement-defined-white-supremacists\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6854,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6854"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":430,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions\/430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}