'The fire rises': identity, the alt-right and intersectionality Academic Article

abstract

• 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. 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-rightrather than a quirk of the 2016 electoral cycleis likely to increase in its importance as a rightist form of intersectionality.

authors

• Gray, Phillip

published proceedings

• JOURNAL OF POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES

altmetric score

• 6

author list (cited authors)

• Gray, P. W.

citation count

• 19

complete list of authors

• Gray, Phillip W

publication date

• May 2018

publisher

• Taylor & Francis  Publisher

published in

• Journal of Political Ideologies  Journal

keywords

• 44 Human Society
• 4405 Gender Studies

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1080/13569317.2018.1451228

start page

• 141

end page

• 156

volume

• 23

issue

• 2

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13569317.2018.1451228