The internet enables racist activists to construct translocal imagined white identities

Evidence

Les Back’s paper on race and the Internet neatly supplements Milian Alias’s. Back explores the increasing role of new technologies of communication within racist subcultures. He examines the changing boundaries of race and ethnic identities prompted from within urban settings but projected cybernetically well beyond the sociospatial confines of the urban. His account focuses specifically on the role of the Internet and related technologies as mechanisms to configure what he calls “translocal whiteness” among activists involved in neofascist and extreme right-wing subcultures. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2246

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to contemporary literature on online radicalization, right-wing subcultures, and how digital platforms amplify extremist identity construction far beyond urban origins. — connects to: Conspiracy media, white supremacy, and nationalism form a self-reinforcing ecology — Anna Merlan, Republic of Lies, 108; The internet enables nationalist extremists to advocate genocide — Neil DeVotta, Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalist…, 202
• QUESTION: Worth investigating: what specific mechanisms does Back identify for how translocal whiteness is built online, and how does it map onto today’s social media ecosystems?
• SHARE: Could send to someone researching far-right radicalization online or platform governance.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2246