ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the alt-right’s attitudes towards race and pseudoscientific racism. While many within the alt-right spend a lot of time and energy vocally trying to differentiate themselves from their far-right predecessors – bemoaning what they call “White nationalism 1.0” – the majority of their ideas on race are drawn from individuals and organisations that long predate the emergence of the alt-right. This is no great surprise, considering the alt-right is a conglomerate movement that subsumed a whole plethora of existing racist movements under its umbrella, many of which have merely adopted the moniker as a rebranding exercise. As such, while it has done little in the way of innovation, the alt-right has helped facilitate something of a revival of pseudoscientific race science.
