The New White Nationalism in Politics and Higher Education

Michael H. Gavin

doi:10.5771/9781793629685

Summary

The New White Nationalism in Politics and Higher Education analyzes a new form of white nationalism that seeks to recruit mainstream citizens to achieve its goals. This New White Nationalism sees higher education, which imparts fact-based knowledge and interrogates history, social structures, and power, often from antiracist and multicultural lenses, as a threat. Michael H. Gavin reveals the tactics of The New White Nationalism and provides a tool called The Nostalgia Spectrum to examine American racism. In the process, the author demonstrates that what many scholars are calling a crisis in higher education is really a crisis of political and social imagination. Reimagining a socially just nation and leveraging higher education institutions that provide low-cost, accessible education to minorities as the first choice for middle class America could have transformative effects on the nation itself.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2021
ISBN-Print: 978-1-7936-2967-8
ISBN-Online: 978-1-7936-2968-5
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 176
Product type: Book Titles

1. Dedication No access
2. Contents No access
1. The New White Nationalism, Trump, and the Insurrection No access
2. A Transfer in Power Is Not the Lack of Power No access
3. Notes No access
1. Higher Education and the Politics of Nostalgia No access
2. White Privilege and White Nationalism in Different Spheres of Power No access
3. Whiteness as a Power Construct Rather Than a Skin Color No access
4. Rationale for the Label “New White Nationalism” No access
5. Higher Education and the Politics of Nostalgia No access
6. Methodology for Remainder of the Book No access
7. What Does Higher Education Have to Do with Nationalism? No access
8. Notes No access
1. Higher Education and its Relationship to the Discourse of Nostalgia No access
2. Political Sphere and its Impact on a Racialized Academic World No access
3. Using the Nostalgia Spectrum to Understand “Make America Great Again” No access
4. The Slow Acceptance of the New White Nationalism No access
5. Higher Education’s Curriculum as a Border War No access
6. The Borders of Higher Education Campuses as a War No access
7. Federal and State Support of a White College Culture No access
8. Demographic Data at Colleges and What It Means for the Future of American Equality No access
9. Varsity Blues as a Symptom No access
10. Higher Education and the Nostalgia Spectrum’s Importance No access
11. Notes No access
1. The Problem of Labels No access
2. Culture Wars are Civil Wars of the Imagination No access
3. Invisible State Intervention in Higher Education No access
4. New Tactics in the Culture War No access
5. Higher Education as a Foreign Entity No access
6. What Disciplines Matter Matters No access
7. Higher Education and Its Value to the Country No access
8. Notes No access
1. The Completion Agenda and the Problem of History No access
2. A Paradigm Built on White Assumptions No access
3. The Heart of the Matter: White Privilege Even in the Emotional Realm No access
4. Further Explanation of White Privilege and the Tyranny or Rationalism No access
5. Notes No access
1. The New White Nationalism and Funding Higher Education Institutions No access
2. America’s Semmelweis Problem: What Can Be Done? No access
3. Recasting the Narratives and Borders of Community Colleges No access
4. What Is the Accountability Era Holding Us Accountable for? No access
5. Notes No access
1. The Unraveling of Trust in Politics in the Late Twentieth Century No access
2. The New White Nationalism of the Twenty-first-Century Electorate and Congress No access
3. Faith in the American Dream No access
4. Assessment and Accountability as a Reaction to a Mistrusting Public No access
5. Assessment and Accountability as Symptomatic to a Misguided American Public No access
6. Disruption as the Norm, and Controlling Chaos No access
7. The Next Steps to a New Paradgim No access
8. Notes No access
1. The Infiltration of the New White Nationalism into Law, Order, and Politics No access
2. Ghost Skins: The New Infiltrations of the New White Nationalism No access
3. Lies and Chaos as the New White Nationalist Strategy No access
4. Higher Education, COVID-19, and the New White Nationalism No access
5. Notes No access
Bibliography No access Pages 161 - 170
Index No access Pages 171 - 174
About the Author No access Pages 175 - 176