The American alt-right, the British Dark Enlightenment, and the Post-Punk Tradition (opens in new tab)

My work on alt rock and the alt-right is focused very explicitly on an American context rooted in decades of right-wing backlash against a set of federal policies about employment and education opportunities referred to as “affirmative action.” Originating in Kennedy’s Executive Order 10925 (1961), affirmative action was intended to correct the distributive injustices created by centuries of racism and sexism by giving preferential treatment to white women and people of color in things like c...