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(More customer reviews)This is a book which discusses how new technologies are being used by racist groups in order to spread racism and white supremacist ideas online. The author focuses on the assumptions behind white supremacist ideas, and highlights their gender and racist undertones. She believes that these groups are trying to create a form of transnational white identity. She also highlights the ways in which women have changed the ideologies of white racist groups (especially on the topic of abortion) by adopting a version of liberal feminist ideas about a woman's right to her body - though some still are virulently anti-abortion. One chapter focuses on the Neo-Nazi group Stormfront, which is the biggest white supremacist group on the web. The author also highlights the ways their ideologies have changed since they moved into the internet - for instance, using 'cloaked' websites... which basically means they pretend to be providing simple facts about civil rights, and so forth... but they are actually peddling bias and racist messages. I haven't seen a book like this before - it seemed really ground breaking to me, to highlight the importance of new forms of racism online.
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In this exploration of the way racism is translated from the print-only era to the cyber era the author takes the reader through a devastatingly informative tour of white supremacy online. The book examines how white supremacist organizations have translated their printed publications onto the Internet. Included are examples of open as well as 'cloaked' sites which disguise white supremacy sources as legitimate civil rights websites. Interviews with a small sample of teenagers as they surf the web, show how they encounter cloaked sites and attempt to make sense of them, mostly unsuccessfully. The result is a first-rate analysis of cyber racism within the global information age. The author debunks the common assumptions that the Internet is either an inherently democratizing technology or an effective 'recruiting' tool for white supremacists. The book concludes with a nuanced, challenging analysis that urges readers to rethink conventional ways of knowing about racial equality, civil rights, and the Internet.
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