On the fault line
Subtitle: race, class, and the American patriot movement
By: Carolyn Gallaher.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
Subjects: White supremacy movements -- United States; Patriotism -- Political aspects -- United States; Whites -- United States -- Politics and government; Whites -- Race identity -- United States; Whites -- Kentucky -- Politics and government; Working class -- United States -- Political activity; Racism -- Political aspects -- United States; United States -- Rural conditions; Kentucky -- Rural conditions; United States -- Race relations -- Political aspects
Description: Due to the economic globalization over the last twenty years, white workers have seen their racial dominance challenged and the security of their jobs assaulted, making them ripe for mobilization. On the Fault Line examines the American Patriot Movement -- a broad, right-wing social movement that includes militias, Second Amendment activists, tax protestors, and individuals who drop out of the system. Carolyn Gallaher uncovers how the Patriot Movement addresses the conflicting social positions of its members -- predominantly white, working class males. Arguing that discourses of patriotism obscure the class-based nature of their concerns, Gallaher asserts that these patriots buttress their racial anxieties through safe, acceptable nationalistic coding. While patriots have been mobilized by the right wing, this book presents potent reasons why the left could intervene, and to better effect.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 247) and index.
Table of contents: title: February 27, 1997 : Garrard County, Kentucky; title: What's class got to do with it; title: On the fault line : whiteness and class in the new world order; title: Out of the rubble : a brief history of the patriot movement; title: Kentucky patriots; title: Hemp and its discontents; title: Biosphere-not in my state!; title: On the road (again); title: Looking ahead; title: Epilogue : March 14, 2002, on the lam.