On the Fault Line: Race, Class and the Us Patriot Movement

A test of recent subcultural explanations of White violence in the United States

“…The responsibility for this severe downturn largely lies with the federal government since it encouraged farmers to expand by taking out loans in the late 1970s. Many farmers overextended themselves and when interest rates increased they could not make payments, resulting in a surge in farm foreclosures (Abanes, 1996;Davidson, 1996;Gallaher, 2003). Dyer (1997) and others maintain that rural culture places a premium on individual self-reliance and personal honor.…”

Thinking race through corporeal feminist theory: divisions and intimacies at the Minneapolis Farmers' Market

“…He argues that figures such as 'white women' have to be understood as part of historically and geographically specific processes (see Kobayashi and Peake 1994) 'that constitute this subjectivity as intelligible, and [as part of] the symbolic regimes of language that summon this representation to life' (Nayak 2006: 417). Whether using the language of construction (Jackson 1998) and reconstruction (of whiteness) (Gallaher 2002), memories and performance (Hoelscher 2003), or performance and space (Thomas 2005), there is an emphasis on the social, on representations of the real and implicit or explicit use of the work of Judith Butler. Even a work dedicated to 'making race matter' (Alexander and Knowles 2005) is still primarily about performance and the dangers of linking race in any way to biology.…”

Public Sociology or Partisan Sociology? The Curious Case of Whiteness Studies

“…A number of important issues are largely absent in whiteness studies-for example, clarifying processes of class formation and structuration, disentangling race-class interactions, identifying class-based similarities across races, determining how class advantages or disadvantages are reproduced, and appreciating how local circumstances complicate abstract generalizations (Ansell 2006;Erdmans 2004;Gallaher 2002;Garner 2006;Gordon 2007;Hartigan 2000bHartigan , 2002Hill 1998;Kolchin 2002;Levine-Rasky 2000;Lubienski 2003;McCarthy 2003;Shaw 2006;cf. Cooper et al 2006;Montecinos 2004).…”

“…Whiteness embodies the essential qualities of the superior: luxury, power, authority, normalcy, legitimacy, purity, beauty, refinement, innocence, forgetfulness, erasure, and denial. These qualities are bestowed through various practices that go largely unrecognized (Ansell 2006;Aveling 2004;Bahk and Jandt 2004;Bailey and Zita 2007;Barnett 2000;Castagno 2006;Christensen 1997;Chubbuck 2004;Cross 2005;D'Andrea 1999;Denevi 2001Denevi , 2004Diangelo 2006;Emerson and Smith 2000;Feagin and Cobas 2008;Flagg 1993;Fusco 2005;Gallagher 2003Gallagher , 2007Gallaher 2002;Garner 2006;Gillborn 2005;Gillespie 2003;Gordon 2005;Green andSonn 2005, 2006;Griffin 1998;Grillo and Wildman 1991;Grimes 2002;Gustafson 2007;Hatchell 2004;Hays and Chang 2003;Himmelstein 2000;Hyland 2005;Jay 2005;Jeffery 2005;Johnson et al 2000;Jugé and Perez 2006;King 2005;Kruks 2005;Kusz 2001;Leonardo 2004;…”