Angry White Men, Michael Kimmel
Angry White Men, Michael Kimmel
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Angry White Men
American Masculinity at the End of an Era

Author: Michael Kimmel

Narrator: Aaron Williamson

Unabridged: 12 hr 46 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 05/23/2017

Synopsis

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.

About Michael Kimmel

Michael Kimmel is one of the world's leading researchers and writers on men and masculinity. He is the author of more than twenty books, including Manhood in America: A Cultural History, Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men, and Angry White Men. He is the founding editor of Men and Masculinities, an interdisciplinary scholarly journal, and in 2013 he founded the world's first Center for the Study of Men and Masculinities. He has offered presentations at over 300 colleges and universities, consulted with governments and United Nations, and worked with many of the world's leading corporations to engage men in support of gender equality.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Hannah on February 11, 2016

It's an important book, but at times I did feel like I was being pressured to empathize instead of simply understand. "Aggrieved entitlement" does not justify the harm that is done, and while I'm sure that's not what Kimmel was trying to say, I sometimes felt like I was being told, "Hey don't hold i......more

Goodreads review by Hester on January 25, 2014

this was not as good as it should have been. it read like a sloppy rush job. many editorial oversights ("depravation" instead of "deprivation" more than once), many inconsistencies on behalf of the author--why point out the difference between correlation and causation when you want to argue spurious......more

Goodreads review by May on August 07, 2020

A comprehensive and detailed analysis of the mindset, arguments, and attitudes of the racist, sexist, homophobic, and anti-semetic alt-right, including the so-called men's rights activists. In my opinion Michael Kimmel was more than fair to these groups, explaining the sources of the anguish and how......more

Goodreads review by Jon-Erik on December 01, 2013

This book starts strong and ends weak. In a nutshell, Kimmel's thesis is that some of the more extreme right-wing politics comprised of white men stem from their sense of entitlement. They feel not just downtrodden, but ripped off. The direction of the anger is at minorities, feminists, sometimes Je......more

Goodreads review by Miri on February 12, 2014

I thought I already knew everything there is to know about masculine entitlement, but I was clearly wrong. Kimmel delves into the minds of men who feel like they are the new oppressed minority and provides a lot of insight about why they think and feel that way. Coming from a feminist perspective, I......more

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