Written by researchers from the anti-racist advocacy group Hope not Hate, this book provides a thorough, ground-breaking and accessible overview of the dangerous alt-right phenomenon. It explains where the alt-right came from, its history so far, what it believes, how it organises and operates, and its future trajectory.

Introduction Part I: Ideas and Beliefs 1. The European Roots of Alt-Right Ideology 2. A Global Anti-Globalist Movement: The Alternative Right, Globalisation and 'Globalism' 3. For Whom the Bell Curves: The Alt-Right and Pseudoscientific Racism 4. The Alternative Right, Antisemitism and the Holocaust 5. Right-Libertarianism and the Alternative Right 6. Identitarianism in North America 7. The Dark Enlightenment: Neoreaction and Silicon Valley Part II: Culture and Activism 8. Art-Right: Weaponising Culture 9. The Role of the Troll: Online Antagonistic Communities and The Alternative Right 10. Alt-Tech: Co-opting and Creating Digital Spaces 11. Gaming the Algorithms: Exploitation of Social Media Platforms by the Alternative Right Part III: Gender and Sexuality 12. From Anger to Ideology: A History of the Manosphere 13. Masculinity and Misogyny in the Alternative Right 14. Sexuality and the Alternative Right Part IV: International 15. Japan and the Alternative Right 16. Russia and the Alternative Right 17. Myth, Mysticism, India and the Alt-Right Conclusion