Dianne Dentice

Dianne Dentice
Stephen F. Austin State University · Department of Anthropology Geography and Sociology

Ph.D., Associate Professor of Sociology

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Introduction
I am currently working with a colleague of mine from Texas A&M on issues affecting transgender active duty and retired military personnel. I am also sifting through data from my years in the field observing/interviewing white racial activists in Arkansas.

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Publications (38)
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On September 20, 2011, President Barack Obama repealed the Don't Ask, Don't Tell (DADT) policy allowing Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual (LGB) people to openly serve in the U.S. military even though transgender service members were not afforded the same protections. On July 23, 2015, Obama's Secretary of Defense Ash Carter officially rescinded the transg...
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Even though people who actively participate in the white nationalist movement appear to be a relatively small percentage of the global population, it appears that racist and anti-Semitic attitudes continue to inform a new generation of white nationalists, many of whom populate discussion forums on Stormfront, online since 1995 and billed as the fir...
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Stormfront's response to the 2016 election
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This is an encyclopedia piece about incidences of prejudice in psychology and religion
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Abstract is included in paper that was published in conference proceedings. This paper also won best paper for the ASSR this year.
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Purpose: There is a gap in social science literature addressing issues of access and quality of care for transgender military veterans. Psychologists, medical doctors, and other health professionals are beginning to address some of the barriers present in the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) system that affect veterans who are also transgender a...
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Stormfront is an online site that contains thousands of discussions and blogs about various topics that interest people who self-identify as white nationalist. Some belong to groups such as the Ku Klux Klan while others are exploring what is out there. Many of the members of the Stormfront site have an interest in religion. Even though William Pier...
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This paper focuses on racial rhetoric surrounding the Book of Esther that was expressed by a group of discussants in Stormfront.org, an online site for white nationalists. Racism and anti-Semitism are closely related especially given the fact that Jews were historically referred to as swarthy and/or black and suffering from choleric and melancholic...
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Membership in extremist groups, such as White Revolution and the Ku Klux Klan, embody specific behavioral attributes. These attributes include practicing endogamy and exhibiting racial pride. There is general consensus among members as to what it means to be part of a socially constructed extremist group. There are also strong motivational factors...
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This is the abstract of a paper I co-authored with my colleague Karen Hale Lewis. When it is accepted for publication I'll upload the entire document.
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Although there have been studies that focus on the experiences of the gay and lesbian population serving in the United States military, few have focused on the experience of active duty transgender service members. Transgender individuals transgress the binary conception of gender by deviating from societal gender norms associated with assigned sex...
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This paper explores the dynamics of a Christian Identity church in rural north central Arkansas. The church, associated with a Klan group known as the Knights Party, is led by Christian Identity Minister, Thom Robb. The study includes analyses of the Knights Party Internet Web site, observations of church services, two Faith and Freedom Conferences...
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The American white supremacist movement is home to an array of many different types of groups inhabited by an equally varied sample of people who are openly racist. Over the past nine years, my field work in four states in the southern region of the country exposed me to people who were affiliated with groups such as the Ku Klux Klan, Blood & Honou...
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In August 2011, Billy Roper, white nationalist leader and political candidate from Arkansas, dismantled White Revolution, the Internet web site that he founded in 2002. At the time of its closing, the site posted a membership of over 1000. In 2010, Roper ran for governor of Arkansas and began mobilizing a political party called the Nationalist Part...
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Mainstream social constructions of gender tend to demand conformity by adhering to only two choices of gender identity—male or female. Transgender individuals transgress this binary conception of gender by deviating from societal gender norms associated with assigned sex at birth. Using a combination of face-to-face and telephone methodology to col...
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Racist individuals often express an underlying need for recognition that may result in association with groups which operate outside mainstream society and are exclusively white. We present data gathered from a survey administered to members of White Revolution, an Internet Web site for people who self-identify as white nationalists. The survey was...
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This profile examines the emerging Nationalist Party of America and its leader, Billy Joe Roper. Founder and chairman of White Revolution, a neo-Nazi group and Internet social networking site, Roper was a write-in candidate in the November 2010 Arkansas gubernatorial race. Drawing parallels with David Duke's political campaigns in Louisiana, this p...
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This paper is a follow-up analysis of an article by Dentice and Williams (2008) that tracked the presidential campaign on Stormfront.org prior to the election of our nation’s first African American president. Stormfront, an online discussion forum for people who self-identify as “white nationalists,” is an important venue for extremist political op...
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Dissertation (Ph. D.)--Texas Woman's University, 2006. Bibliography: leaves 157-164. Abstract. Also available as microform. Full text is not available.

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