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One of the headlines 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 four years later, when Donald Trump was announced the winner, it became clear that the white American male voter is alive and well and angry as hell. 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 Angry White Men, he presents a comprehensive diagnosis of their fears, anxieties, and rage.

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.

Angry White Men discusses, among others, the sons of small town America, scarred by underemployment and wage stagnation. 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. Even more terrifying is the phenomenon of angry young boys. School shootings in the United States are not just the work of “misguided youth” or “troubled teens”—they're all committed by boys. These alienated young men are transformed into mass murderers by a sense that using violence against others is their right.

The election of Donald Trump proved that angry white men can still change the course of history. Here, Kimmel argues that they should walk openly and honorably alongside those they've spent so long trying to exclude, in order to be happier and healthier.
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p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'} Michael Kimmel is a distinguished professor of sociology and gender studies at Stony Brook University in New York. The author or editor of more than twenty books, including Manhood in America, The Gendered Society, The History of Men, and Guyland, he lives with his family in Brooklyn, New York.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Nation Books; 1st edition (April 14, 2015)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 336 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1568585136
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1568585130
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  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.88 x 8.25 inches
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5.0 out of 5 stars An Excellent and Timely Analysis of the American Culture Wars... Don't Read it for Nov 8, but Nov 9 and beyond.
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This is one of the best resources to explain the intense anger and frustration that has propelled Donald Trump's race to the top of the GOP. Kimmel combines scholarly data with investigative reportage to help explain and document just what makes the lower-middle-class, largely white, center-right voting bloc tick.

The book was actually published before the current Presidential race, and in some ways that's actually a strength-- it talks about poor white Americans wrestling with "Aggrieved Entitlement" and Male Rage. Reasonable people can quibble over Kimmel's terminology, but his arguments go a long way towards explaining the phenomenon of how a candidate like Trump, who among other things is such a terrible spokesperson for ideological conservatism, has been able to garner so much support. Chauvinism? Race-baiting? Economic victimhood? It's all here.

One of the things I really appreciated about this book was that Kimmel tries to take an even tack: he not only calls out the subjects of his book for their logical fallacies and bad arguments, but also empathizes with how angry and frustrated they must be-- sometimes, with good reason. And he also points out ways in which their voices and problems have been ignored or exploited by pundits and politicians-- on both the left and the right.

Kimmel's book is a great resource for people who want to try to understand what is making people so angry about politics... and who are already thinking ahead to the day after the election, when regardless of who wins the White House, the rest of us are going to have to figure out how to talk to each other again and move forward.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Bought “Angry White Men”
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Thank you, Amazon! I bought “Angry White Men” fir a sociology class at a community college in California. The book was helpful to read and easy to summarize when answering questions from my college professor. From my perspective, it wasn’t pricy.
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Jim McLaughlin
4.0 out of 5 stars Intriguing read on 'aggrieved entitlement', if a bit too opinionated.
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The book comes off more opinionated than grounded in solid statistical data in my opinion. That being said, it's certainly an intriguing read on the angry white males of America in today's world, many of whom have justifiable grievances while others have more imaginary ones. The book touches largely on the concept of 'aggrieved entitlement' among middle-class, heterosexual, Christian American white men who feel as though their birthright is being taken away from them by outside forces (racial minorities, women, homosexuals, other religious groups, and government bureaucrats mainly). A nice way to summarize much of the book is with this statement: "When you are accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression." That statement (in my opinion) explains much of the rage that American white men feel today about their lot in life.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A Great Read
Reviewed in the United States on March 23, 2015
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Excellent book! Well worth your time. The rating is lower from certain groups hate-bombing anything that doesn't serve their purpose with their one-sided, predictable, and rote talking points. Many of which have nothing to do with women, but have to do with norms other MEN have set up in society, but as usual, that escapes them in their quest for scapegoats.

Any way you slice and dice it, the book is about a segment of society that, despite the writing on the wall for decades, assumed and expected that they would continue to be given preferential treatment based on their skin color and gender only to wake up one day and discover that not only had the world changed, but that they couldn't compete unless the deck was artificially stacked in their favor. Then they head for the polls and overwhelmingly vote for the people who not only sent many of their jobs overseas, but became even richer for doing so. Now they're circling the wagons to throw immigrants out, oppress minorities, and chain women back to the home in the hopes that the good old days will return in which they can count on a high paying job right out of high school without college, and given priority for everything just for being the "right" gender and color.

The end.
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I. N. Cognito
5.0 out of 5 stars I very much enjoyed reading this book
Reviewed in the United States on December 25, 2016
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I very much enjoyed reading this book. Kimmel writes extremely well. He keeps his narrative and analyses moving along. The book is not highly theoretical sociology, but does bring an accomplished sociological eye to the world it addresses. Written more than three years before the 2016 Presidential election, the book could have been a primer for how to connect with many white male voters in America and perhaps elsewhere. Being a college professor and researcher, I would have liked more discussion of field methods and experiences. Taking in some of the data from white supremacist web sites and chat rooms must have been disturbing at times.
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Yves Van Herstraeten
4.0 out of 5 stars Un peu de retard ...
Reviewed in France on March 27, 2021
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La date de livraison était prévue entre le 18 et le 24/03/21
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4.0 out of 5 stars Un peu de retard ...
Reviewed in France on March 27, 2021
La date de livraison était prévue entre le 18 et le 24/03/21
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Reviewed in Italy on September 17, 2020
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articolo arrivato per tempo, corrisponde alla descrizione
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Juliana Miranda
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Reviewed in Brazil on June 12, 2018
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Excelente livro. Procurei o livro depois de assistir a uma entrevista desse autor na TV. Traz temas atuais e faz uma analise profunda na sociedade branca americana. O livro foi escrito antes da era Trump. Torna fácil entender o apoio do voto republicano a Trump dps dessa leitura. Leia com calma.
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Charlene Parker
5.0 out of 5 stars I highly recommend it.
Reviewed in Canada on November 16, 2017
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A very insightful book! Well written. I highly recommend it.
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Sarah M
5.0 out of 5 stars Michael Kimmel - My second favourite sociologist
Reviewed in Germany on March 1, 2019
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I really love Kimmel's work. If you have an interest in sociology, masculinity, and why things are the way they are today, I cannot recommend his work highly enough. Thought provoking, gripping, and told in a way that strikes the balance between academic and conversational.
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