RACE AND RACIALIZATION IN CYBERSPACE

- Racialization in cyberspace can been seen in such websites as Dixienet.org or other Neo-Confederate websites. These websites push for preserving the South and its heritage, and they want to do so by only having the white race be a part of it. None of these sites acknowledge blacks.
From Tara McPherson’s ““White Guys, the South, and Cyberspace”:
- The work of neo-Confederates in cyberspace reveals a sincere attempt to make “self” in the world, and articulate a particular (and racially naturalized) presence.
- Reconstructing Dixie is all about a serious battle over the demands of place, race, and identity.
- With most of these sites prohibiting an explicit expression of racist ways, it does not simply forget or overlook the matter, but instead it enables the evasion of the race question under the whiteness of cyberspace.