White Rage The Extreme Right and American Politics [Hardcover]

White Rageexamines the development of the modern American extreme right and American politics from the 1950s to the present day. It explores the full panoply of extreme right groups, from the remnants of the Ku Klux Klan to skinhead groups and from the militia groups to neo-nazis.

In developing its argument the book:

• discusses the American extreme right in the context of the Oklahoma City bombing, 9/11 and the Bush administration;
• explores the American extreme rights divisions and its pursuit of alliances;
• analyses the movements hostilities to other racial groups.

Written in a moment of crisis for the leading extreme right groups, this original study challenges the frequent equation of the extreme right with other sections of the American right. It is a movement whose development and future will be of interest to anyone concerned with race relations and social conflict in modern America.

Introduction  1. Before Brown  2. American Reich  3. Out of the Southland  4. Not All Patriots  5. Race and Religion  6. Fighting for Women  7. A Call to Arms  8. Race and the Right  9. Out of the 1950s

The best analytical and historical overview available on the Extreme Right in the United States. Sets a sturdy benchmark for future studies. A profound scholarly voice that captures complexity and nuance while remaining accessible to the lay reader.

Chip Berlet, Senior Analyst, Political Research Associates, USA

No one seems to have told the most militant ideologues and activists of the extreme right in the US that we are now living in a 'post-fascist age'. Martin Durham's well-researched and highly readable book hauls into thl³&