[Air-L] 'Tweeting Trump': the alt-right & mainstreaming of white nationalism - Prof. Jessie Daniels in Australia

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Fri Nov 25 15:44:10 PST 2016


'Alt-right' otherwise known as neo-Nazis?  ;)

On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 10:04 AM, Justine Humphry <justine.humphry at gmail.com
> wrote:

> 'Tweeting Trump': the alt-right & mainstreaming of white nationalism
>
>
> Seminar by Professor Jessie Daniels, Hunter College, New York City visiting
> Australia for the Building Digital Antiracism Capacity collaboration at
> Western Sydney University by Associate Professor Alana Lentin and Dr
> Justine Humphry
>
>
> **** Also broadcast live on #Periscope go to @MediaAtSydney ****
>
>
>
> Date: Friday, 9 December 2016
>
> Time: 2:30pm - 4:00pm
>
> Venue: MECO Seminar Room S226, John Woolley Building (A20)
>
> Register Free Event - online via Eventbrite
>
> https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/tweeting-trump-the-alt-right
> -mainstreaming-of-white-nationalism-tickets-29291775489?aff=ehomecard
>
>
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> About the seminar
>
> In this engaging talk, Jessie Daniels draws on 20 years of research to
> demonstrate that white supremacy is neither new nor an aberration, but
> rather a consistent feature of the US political landscape. Savvy white
> nationalists and members of the “altright” movement use culture jamming
> tactics on Facebook and Twitter to inject racist memes like #WhiteGenocide
> into popular political and cultural discussions. And,
> @realDonaldTrump retweets them all to his 5 million-plus followers. In
> response to this increased visibility and amplification of white supremacy
> in the mainstream of US political culture, white liberals express shock
> at what they perceive is a new development. It is not.
>
>
>
> About the speaker
>
> Jessie Daniels is Professor of Sociology at Hunter College, New York City,
> and an internationally recognized expert in Internet manifestations of
> racism. Her visit to Australia is being supported by Western Sydney
> University’s Building Digital Antiracism Capacity collaboration. Jessie is
> the author of White Lies (Routledge, 1997) and Cyber Racism (Rowman &
> Littlefield, 2009), along with dozens of scholarly articles. Since 2007,
> Daniels has published Racism Review, a credible and reliable resource for
> anyone seeking evidence-based research on race, racism, ethnicity and
> immigration. Forbes named her “one of 20 inspiring women to follow on
> Twitter.” She tweets as @JessieNYC.
>
> For more information or queries, contact chris.chesher at sydney.edu.au
> or *justine.humphry at sydney.edu.au
> <justine.humphry at sydney.edu.au>*
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