Angry white male (AWM) is a pejorative term which typifies a white male who holds traditional conservative views, especially in the context of U.S. politics and total opposition to racial quotas, political correctness, affirmative action, anti-discrimination policies, and other liberal policies.[1][2]
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The movies Joe, Falling Down, and Gran Torino have been described as a definitive exploration of the angry white male concept. The protagonist of Falling Down, a former defense worker who descends into a spiral of increasing rage and violence, was widely reported upon as a representative of the stereotype.[3]
Salon.com[4] have labeled conservative political commentators such as Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, and Bill O'Reilly, as well as talk radio and television news networks like Fox News Channel, exacerbated by partisan politics,[5][6] as appealing to the American angry-white-male demographic.
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- ^ Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford University Press, 2006, http://www.oed.com, "angry white male n. (also with capital initials) Polit. (orig. and chiefly U.S.) a (usually working-class) white man with-right wing views (typically including opposition to liberal anti-discriminatory policies), esp. viewed as representing an influential class of voter"
- ^ Grant Reeher and Joseph Cammarano, "In Search of the Angry White Male," in Richard G. Niemi, ed., Midterm: The Elections of 1994 in Context (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1996), 125–136.
- ^ Carl Scott Gutiérrez-Jones (2001), Critical race narratives, pp. 61–65, ISBN 9780814731451, http://books.google.com/?id=_Zc0e8caLkEC
- ^ We're still haunted by Angry White Males, Salon.com, August 2, 2010, http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2010/08/02/obama_angry_white_males
- ^ Barack Obama must beware the rise of the angry white man, The Guardian, August 16, 2009, http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/aug/16/michael-crowley-barack-obama
- ^ America's white men are back and raging, Times Online, July 19, 2009, http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6719139.ece
