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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.
The New White Nationalism in Politics and Higher Education analyses
a new form of white nationalism that seeks to recruit mainstream
citizens to achieve its goals, and sees higher education, which
impart 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.
In an era characterized by news that caters to extreme ends of the
political spectrum, sporting events are one of the last refuges to
which people of divergent viewpoints can turn. In the days and
weeks following a national tragedy, columnists frequently write
about how the tragedy has affected the sports world, and how, in
turn, particular sporting events have affected the American people
as they cope with adversity, loss, and grief; in the process, these
columnists often reveal their own definitions of tragedy and being
American. In Sports in the Aftermath of Tragedy: From Kennedy to
Katrina, Michael Gavin explores how columnists have written about
sports' role in the national recovery from specific tragedies.
Beginning with John F. Kennedy's assassination and including
subsequent national tragedies such as 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina,
this book studies the people considered "American" in these
columnists' work. Other tragedies examined are the assassinations
of Martin Luther King Jr. and Bobby Kennedy, the bombing of the
1996 Olympics, and the 2011 Japanese tsunami that impacted both the
Japanese and American women's soccer teams when the two competed
against each other in the final round of the World Cup. A unique
and perceptive look through the eyes of the sports world at how a
nation responds to tragedy, Sports in the Aftermath of Tragedy will
be of interest to sports fans, scholars, and historians.
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