Online Antagonism of the Alt-Right in the 2016 Election by Niko Heikkilä

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Problematizing Canadian exceptionalism by Laura J. Kwak

“…This article traces how the assumption that Canada has avoided the rise of right-wing populism and white nationalism is tethered to the fiction that Canada has been a raceless society. …”
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The Trump Phenomenon and the Racialization of American Politics by Serge Ricard

“…The following essay attempts to throw light on the permanence of the race factor in American society, its impact on the 2016 election, either by means of its unabashed activation or through a coded rhetoric, its centrality in the Trumpian discourse, the heyday of white nationalism under a President prone to stoking the flames of division and prejudice, together with the disquieting signs of a “new civil war” in a disunited nation.…”
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Cross-Gendering the Racial Memory by Marlon B. Ross

“…Gaines chooses a woman as his medium/subject both to envelope the image of the gigantic black feminine as black nationalist icon and to counter that image in favor of a conscientious black nation within a bloody white nation, the black (wo)man as the purifying conscience of the historically compromised American nation-state. …”
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