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Angry White Men: American Masculinity at the End of an Era Hardcover – November 5, 2013

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"[W]e can't come off as a bunch of angry white men.”
Robert Bennett, chairman of the Ohio Republican Party

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 from white supremacists to men's rights activists to young students in pursuit of an answer. Angry White Men 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 future of America is more inclusive and diverse. The choice for angry white men is not whether or not they can stem the tide of history: they cannot. 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.

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336 pages
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Nation Books
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November 5, 2013
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6.75 x 1.25 x 9.75 inches
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1568586965
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978-1568586960
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Kimmel believes it comes down to aggrieved entitlement: the school shootings perpetrated by middle-class white male students, the men’s-rights movement, white supremacists, the fathers’-rights groups, etc. There is, he elaborates, a strong (and getting dangerously stronger) feeling, among some white male Americans, that they are losing their place in society. The era of entitlement, when the good jobs and the best stuff was the white male American’s due, has passed, replaced by a society in which—at least in the skewed view of the people about whom Kimmel is writing—white males are being systematically marginalized, passed over in favor of minorities and women. (For example, the men’s-rights movement, the author says, is based on the belief that the oppression of men is a feminist conspiracy.) The angry white man, says Kimmel, isn’t able, or perhaps willing, to face the simple truth: the era of entitlement is over. The book offers no real solution to the problem, delivering instead a lively, frequently scary look at a group of people who are trying, ever more desperately, to hang onto a world that no longer exists. --David Pitt

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White men still have most of the power and most of the money, so why do so many of them feel so victimized? In this fascinating guided tour of the world of angry white menGlenn Beck fans, white supremacists, school shooters, men's rights activistspioneer sociologist of masculinity Michael Kimmel shows how aggrieved entitlement' leads them to blame people of color, immigrants, liberals, intellectuals, the government, and above all, women, for a society that is changing fast and, they fear, leaving them behind. No dry academic study, Angry White Men is full of shrewd political analysis, empathy, and humor.”
Katha Pollitt, columnist for The Nation

Michael Kimmel has written a comprehensive study of working and middle-class white men and described their collective grievances with insight and compassion. In regard to those among them who ally with the Far Right, he is equally insightful but justifiably more critical; his analysis of their misdirected rage at minorities and women is entirely persuasive. I enthusiastically recommend Angry White Men to the wide readership it has amply earned.”
Martin Duberman, professor of history emeritus at the Graduate School of the City University of New York

"[Angry White Men] delivers... a lively, frequently scary look at a group of people who are trying, ever more desperately, to hang onto a world that no longer exists."
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"Kimmel's writing is open and engaging, reminiscent of a conversation with friends in a bar... Another worthwhile examination of important issues affecting men and, by extension, everyone else, from an author known for his insight into the subject."
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Being white and male has brought unfair power for so long that some think it's natural, both among those claiming it and those suffering from it. Michael Kimmel has done us the life-saving favor of naming this delusion that may endanger us more than any other. From executives for whom no amount of money is enough to white supremacists for whom no amount of power is enough, from U.S. wars in which men die to U.S. domestic violence in which even more women die, this illness is lethal for us all. Angry White Men is a brave, sane, compassionate, and rescuing book.”
Gloria Steinem, feminist activist and author

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Nation Books; 1st edition (November 5, 2013)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 336 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1568586965
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1568586960
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.19 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.75 x 1.25 x 9.75 inches

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An Excellent and Timely Analysis of the American Culture Wars... Don't Read it for Nov 8, but Nov 9 and beyond.

Reviewed in the United States on November 6, 2016

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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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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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BHodges

Aggrieved entitlement is the lens

Reviewed in the United States on May 4, 2023

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You’ll likely be surprised at how many acts of American violence you’ve already forgotten about because they just keep happening.

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Bought “Angry White Men”

Reviewed in the United States on November 1, 2022

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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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Reviewed in the United States on July 25, 2016

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Through the lens Kimmel offers, you can see the tide of populism and the rise of Trump, the increase in mass shootings, and the stubbornly high rates of sexual assault all have a common underlying theme -- male entitlement and the very real pain/anger these men feel in not getting "what they deserve." Kimmel does a good job with being fair to the very real struggles these men are facing, offering compassion for the state these men often find themselves in, while still critiquing the culture that created such an angry and dangerous sense of entitlement. As others have noted, he does get a bit repetitive, but overall I think it was a strong contribution to the study of masculinity, which is under examined.

Very thoughtful and timely book that isn't nearly as inflammatory as the angry commentators would have you believe. Clearly many haven't read the book, but as someone who has, I would recommend it.

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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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Colis arrivé le 26/03
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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

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.

Sarah M

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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