ABSTRACT This essay claims that white nationalism is a political identity animated by the affect of racial anxiety. Drawing from Frantz Fanon's work on blackness as a phobic object, Hortense J. Spillers's conception of the flesh/body distinction, and Jacques Lacan's seminar on anxiety, the essay argues that the racial anxiety of the white nationalist subject emerges from encounters with the incapacity of post-racial fantasies of national wholeness to fully disavow the abjection of blackness that holds together the symbolic structure of race. The essay performs a rhetorical analysis of Dylann Storm Roof's manifesto “rtf88,” claiming that Roof's racial anxiety is anchored by an identification with the trope of “racial awareness” as an abject metaphor for his sovereignty. The essay uses this trope to trace three different relationships to racial anxiety that the white nationalist subject articulates on new media: discovery, mapping, and mobilization. The essay concludes by outlining future directions for scholars of race and media who wish to study white nationalism on the internet.

中文翻译：

---

Dylann Roof的种族视角：新媒体上的种族焦虑和白人民族主义言论

摘要本文认为白人民族主义是一种受种族焦虑影响的政治身份。文章引用了弗朗兹·法农（Frantz Fanon）关于将黑色作为恐怖物体的工作，霍尔滕斯·J·斯佩勒斯（Hortense J. Spillers）对肤色/身体差异的构想以及雅克·拉康（Jacques Lacan）关于焦虑症的研讨会的论述，文章认为，白人民族主义者的种族焦虑症源于对残疾人无能的遭遇。种族后的民族整体性幻想完全否认了将种族象征结构融合在一起的黑社会现象。这篇文章对Dylann Storm Roof的宣言“ rtf88”进行了修辞分析，声称Roof的种族焦虑是由对“种族意识”的论断作为对他主权的一个隐喻隐喻的锚定。这篇文章使用这种论调来追溯白人民族主义者在新媒体上表达的与种族焦虑的三种不同关系：发现，制图和动员。文章最后总结了希望在互联网上研究白人民族主义的种族和媒体学者的未来发展方向。