The author or editor of more than twenty volumes, his books include The Politics of Manhood, and The History of Men (2005). He is among the leading researchers and writers on men and masculinity in the world today. Michael Scott Kimmel is an American sociologist, specializing in gender studies. Their choice is whether or not they will be dragged kicking and screaming into that inevitable future, or whether they will walk openly and honorably-far happier and healthier, incidentally-alongside those they’ve spent so long trying to exclude. The choice for angry white men is not whether or not they can stem the tide of history: they cannot. The future of America is more inclusive and diverse. These alienated young men are transformed into mass murderers by a sense that using violence against others is their right. School shootings in the United States are not just the work of 'misguided youth' or 'troubled teens'-they’re all committed by boys. Even more terrifying is the phenomenon of angry young boys.

When America’s white men feel they’ve lived their lives the 'right' way, worked hard and stayed out of trouble, and still do not get economic rewards, then they have to blame somebody else. 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.Īngry White Men discusses, among others, the sons of small town America, scarred by underemployment and wage stagnation. 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. Kimmel locates this increase in anger in the seismic economic, social and political shifts that have so transformed the American landscape. Angry White Men presents a comprehensive diagnosis of their fears, anxieties, and rage. 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 from white supremacists to men's rights activists to young students in pursuit of an answer.

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. 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. Robert Bennett, chairman of the Ohio Republican Party

'e can't come off as a bunch of angry white men.”

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