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The Place of Race in Conservative and Far-right Movements
This paper explores current understandings and proposes new directions for research on the place of
race in rightist social movements in the contemporary United States. We examine two broad categories
of rightist movements. The first is white-majority conservative movements that deny their participation
in racialized politics but in which race is implicit in their ideologies and agendas, such as the Tea Party.
The second is far-right movements that explicitly espouse racist ideologies and agendas, such as neo-Nazi
groups. For conservative movements, we examine the extent to which racial factors shape agendas and
motivate participants. For far-right movements, we examine how they define race and seek to enact their
racial goals. We point to productive possibilities for new research on the racial positionality of scholars of
social movements, the relationship between rightist movements and larger social trends, and processual
and longitudinal aspects of rightist movements.
Keywords: racist, white supremacy, conservatism, social movement, violence
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