Jared A. Goldstein (Roger Williams): The Klan’s Constitution. Eric Herschthal reviews The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition by Linda Gordon and Ku Klux Kulture: America and the Klan in the 1920s by Felix Harcourt. How the “grassroots resistance” of white women shaped white supremacy: An excerpt from Mothers of Massive Resistance: White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy by Elizabeth Gillespie McRae. Joseph Darda reviews Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America by Kathleen Belew.
The notorious book that ties the Right to the far Right: The enduring popularity of the racial-dystopian novel The Camp of the Saints sheds light on nativists’ historical opposition to immigration. The history of white power: Twenty-three years after the Oklahoma City bombing, why are we still surprised by the movement’s strength? Neo-Nazi groups explode under Trump, Southern Poverty Law Center finds. How to make a hate map: Neo-Nazis and anti-immigrant groups are having a banner year in the Southern Poverty Law Center’s guide to hate in America. Jeet Heer on Trump, Fox News, and the mainstreaming of white nationalism.
Radical right is a threat to some individuals but will never hold political power: George Hawley reviews Everything You Love Will Burn: Inside the Rebirth of White Nationalism in America by Vegas Tenold.
