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    Angry White Men: American Masculinity at the End of an Era
    Angry White Men: American Masculinity at the End of an Era
    Angry White Men: American Masculinity at the End of an Era
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    Angry White Men: American Masculinity at the End of an Era

    Written by Michael Kimmel

    Narrated by Aaron Williamson

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    About this audiobook

    One of the enduring legacies of the 2012 Presidential campaign was the demise of the white American male voter as a dominant force in the political landscape. On election night, after Obama was announced the winner, a distressed Bill O'Reilly lamented that he didn't live in "a traditional America anymore." He was joined by others who bellowed their grief on the talk radio airwaves, the traditional redoubt of angry white men. Why were they so angry? Sociologist Michael Kimmel, one of the leading writers on men and masculinity in the world today, has spent hundreds of hours in the company of America's angry white men in pursuit of an answer.

    Kimmel locates this increase in anger in the seismic economic, social, and political shifts that have so transformed the American landscape. Downward mobility, increased racial and gender equality, and a tenacious clinging to an anachronistic ideology of masculinity has left many men feeling betrayed and bewildered. Raised to expect unparalleled social and economic privilege, white men are suffering today from what Kimmel calls "aggrieved entitlement": a sense that those benefits that white men believed were their due have been snatched away from them.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateMay 23, 2017
    ISBN9781541473737
    Angry White Men: American Masculinity at the End of an Era
    Author

    Michael Kimmel

    A leading scholar in the field of gender studies, Michael Kimmel is author or editor of more than twenty books, including the groundbreaking Manhood in America and Angry White Men.  He is SUNY Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies at Stony Brook University and lives with his family in Brooklyn, New York.

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    • 4/5
      It's weird to read this book now, after four years of a Donald Trump presidency, but it remains as relevant now as it was then. Donald Trump isn't mentioned at all this book, but he is the elephant in the room throughout. Kimmel, a sociologist, uses this book to explore who a "angry white man" is, what feeds into their sense of grievance and the dynamics of power in American politics. The author also points out that these men exist at an "end of an era", pointing to massive shifts in both economic forces and personal relationships that make it nearly impossible to truly turn back the clock.
    • 4/5
      Reading this book a few years on, I tended to wonder what it would look like if he wrote it now. Many of the things he says in this work that speak to the future are wrong...very wrong. He failed to anticipate the stunning success of the Angry White Men at electing one of their own to the White House, and the Nazis, misogynists, and white supremacists rampaging through the country as though it belonged to them and no one else. Still, the historical work is great, though there are places where he might have pointed out some of the totally untrue things these guys think, rather than just noting that they think untrue things - such as the constant refrain of white men building everything in this country all by themselves. My main complaint with the book is the extreme level of sympathy that the author shows to some of the most hateful people in the universe. Perhaps it's easier when you yourself are white and male (though this group also despises Jews); for a lot of us, the wounds we still wear from their misplaced anger make it very difficult for us to sympathize with their perceived wounds. Overall, though, a quick read, though it would be hard to say it is "easy". The writing is lucid and competent, but easy is not a word one can apply to immersing oneself in this culture for a few hours.

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