“White Men Are This Nation”: Right-Wing Militias and the Restoration of Rural American Masculinity

In a 1987 illustration in WAR (see Fig. 6.1), the magazine of the White Aryan Resistance, a working-class white man, in hard hat and flak jacket, stands proudly before a suspension bridge while a jet plane soars overhead. “WHITE MEN Built This nation!!” reads the text, “WHITE MEN Are this nation!!!” Fig. 6.1 “White Men Built this nation!!”cartoon from WAR magazine, 1987. https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9780203644058/f25a47b4-6d8d-4c2c-859a-0bd405f72888/content/fig6_1_B.jpg" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/>