'The fire rises': identity, the alt-right and intersectionality. Issue 2 (4th May 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Gray, Phillip W.
• Is Part Of: Journal of political ideologies. Volume 23:Issue 2(2018)
• Page Start: 141
• Page End: 156
• Publication Date: 2018-05-04
• Subjects: Right and left (Political science) -- History -- Periodicals; Political science -- Philosophy -- Periodicals; Political science -- History -- Periodicals; Ideology -- History -- Periodicals; 320.5
• DOI: 10.1080/13569317.2018.1451228
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1356-9317

Abstract

Abstract: This article examines the ideology of the 'alt-right, ' specifically in its relation to the importance of identity. Placing the alt-right within the context of the rising importance of identity within American society, the article discusses the alt-right as overlapping in significant ways with the identitarian elements within the American Left. Investigating the manner in which national/racial identity plays a central role in alt-right thinking and using the notion of 'category-based epistemology' for guidance, this article argues that the alt-right – rather than a quirk of the 2016 electoral cycle – is likely to increase in its importance as a 'rightist' form of intersectionality.