Whiteness feels good here

Interrogating white nationalist rhetoric on Stormfront

Bibliographic Data

ID12739416
AuthorsStephanie L Hartzell (0000-0001-9005-1327, California State University, Long Beach, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume17
Issue2
Pages129-148
Publication date2020-03-26
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueCommunication and Critical/Cultural Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1479-1420 • E-ISSN: 1479-4233
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14791420.2020.1745858
OpenAlexW3013066888
LanguageEN
Citations received19

This essay adopts a critical rhetorical perspective attuned to affect to investigate white nationalist rhetoric on Stormfront, a popular white nationalist message board. My analysis illuminates how Stormfront attempts to appeal to mainstream white audiences by resisting normative expectations and affects articulated with white supremacy and (re)constructing white nationalism as a formation of white racial consciousness articulated with communal belonging, common sense, and pride. On Stormfront, affect is mobilized discursively to challenge colorblindness, construct rhetorical distance between white nationalism and white supremacy, and strategically negotiate white (dis)comfort with direct discourse on race to compel affective investments in white nationalism

Aesthetics · Affect (linguistics · Appeal · Art · Literature · Mainstream · Nationalism · Negotiation · Political science · Politics · Pride · Racism · Rhetoric · Rhetorical question · Social science · Sociology · White (mutation · White supremacy · Critical Race Theory in Education · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Gender Studies · Law · Rhetoric and Communication Studies

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