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How clothing brands coded with racist and nationalist symbols are bringing extremism into the German mainstreamThe past decade has witnessed a steady increase in far right politics, social movements, and extremist violence in Europe. Scholars and policymakers have struggled to understand the causes and dynamics that have made the far right so appealing to so many people—in other words, that have made the extreme more mainstream. In this book, Cynthia Miller-Idriss examines how extremist ideologies have entered mainstream German culture through commercialized products and clothing laced with extremist, anti-Semitic, racist, and nationalist coded symbols and references.Drawing on a unique digital archive of thousands of historical and contemporary images, as well as scores of interviews with young people and their teachers in two German vocational schools with histories of extremist youth presence, Miller-Idriss shows how this commercialization is part of a radical transformation happening today in German far right youth subculture. She describes how these young people have gravitated away from the singular, hard-edged skinhead style in favor of sophisticated and fashionable commerci

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Author
Cynthia Miller-Idriss
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Published
2018
Language
EN
ISBN
9781400888931
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Science, Political Science, History
Rating
4 / 5 (1 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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