As stated, this project will follow the arc of Liberalism into fascism and neo-fascism and their manifestations into the protest and terrorist attack in Charlottesville. I will analyze what’s at stake, especially following Charlottesville, knowing the protesters plan to “upstage” Charlottesville with their next rally. Additionally, I will look at constructions of whiteness and of race, and the language of individualism and the racial hierarchies set up during America’s founding.

This project hopes to raise bigger questions such as:

• • Do racialized categories, particularly those freighted with hierarchized racialized histories, inevitably lead us into this kind of (neo)fascism?

  • Can we eliminate identity as a cure for the failings of liberalism’s conceptions of individualism?

  • what are the discursive assumptions in these statements of white nationalism and can you trace a line from liberal(ist) racialized ideology to charlottesville-white nationalism?

  • How is the definition of whiteness always deconstructing itself? Or being deconstructed by putting it into context?

    Lastly, I will analyze the significance of this arc and its culmination in the events of their Charlottesville. Switching from a New Historicist method of gathering archival material and examining  their discourses and ideologies, I’ll make use of Biopolitics and Deconstruction. Through Foucault’s biopolitics, I’ll evaluate ideas like embodied life as the final determiner of identity, embodied identity as absolute, and undiminishable embodied identity. I’ll also work to deconstruct the definition of whiteness, and see the ways in which it is always deconstructing itself, or being deconstructed through context. If there is an arc from liberalist racialized ideologies to Charlottesville’s avowed white nationalists, I’ll seek to draw postulations as to how discourse operates around race in relation to this continuum, as raise larger questions about identity as a whole, such as Can we eliminate identity as a cure for the failings of liberalism’s conceptions of individualism?