Doing Gender on the Border.

The Minutemen Civil Defense Corps, an anti-immigrant militia, having emerged concurrently with Obama's rise to fame and subsequent societal claims of post-raciality, is a unique organization through which one can examine contemporary right wing discourse. This paper is part of a larger project on the production of knowledge on the right, comparing extremist and more mainstream organizations. In particular, this paper builds off of previous scholarship on the formation of gender in right wing movements to examine how gender is constructed and performed differently in groups of the dissident right as compared to those of the extreme right. This has particular implications for the ways in which we understand "the right". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]