Blood in the face : white nationalism from the birth of a nation to the age of Trump

Ridgeway, James 1936- (author.). Casella, Jean, (author.). Quandt, Katie Rose, (author.).

Summary: "In 1990, Blood in the Face: The Ku Klux Klan, Aryan Nations, Nazi Skinheads, and the Rise of a New White Culture was the first book to uncover the contours, beliefs, leaders, and wider influence of the American racist far-right movement. It told their story from the inside out, complete with interviews, recruiting pamphlets, cartoons, rants, sermons, threats, police reports, and more. The accompanying analysis by veteran investigative reporter James Ridgeway detailed the movement 's volatile history and its expansion beginning in the 1980s, insisting that the groups making up this 'fringe' culture were too powerful--and too much a part of American culture--to be ignored or dismissed. When the book 's prescience about the dangers of the racist far-right became manifest in the Oklahoma City bombing of 1995, a second edition of Blood in the Face was released with a new introduction charting the rise of the Militia Movement to which Timothy McVeigh and his co-conspirators were connected. Since then, both the book and the documentary film that accompanied its release (also titled Blood in the Face), have earned cult followings. In the past 25 years, Ridgeway 's final warning--that the 'fringe was becoming part of the fabric' of American politics and culture, have come to chilling fruition in the rise of the Tea Party, the racist backlash against the presidency of Barack Obama, the resurgence of anti-immigrant Nativism, the growth of racist far-right media, and the election of Donald Trump with the thunderous support of white nationalists." -Back cover.

Record details

ISBN: 9781642594652
ISBN: 1642594652
Physical Description: 336 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
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Edition: Second edition.
Publisher: Chicago, Illinois : Haymarket Books, 2025.
Copyright: ©2024

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-322) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Chapter 1. Native Americans. Aliens and know-nothings ; Birth of a nation ; Second coming ; The "Demon Jew" ; Fordism ; The Eugenics Movement ; America first ; Bunds and Bible-thumpers ; The Greatest rabble-rouser seen on Earth ; Identity conflicts -- Chapter 2. Resurgence. Two revolutions at once ; On target ; Carlo's imperative ; Hitler's Lenin ; Rising again; The Southern strategy -- Chapter 3. The Fifth Era. The old man of the mountain ; Field marshal of the Far Right ; Aryan outlaws ; White Patriots ; Skins ; This is war ; Race is the reason -- Chapter 4. Posse Country. Power of the county ; The Posse "Resistance" ; Martyrs to the Posse ; The Rulo Farm horror ; Storm over Rangelands ; Party of Populists -- Chapter 5. Okbomb. Counterattack ; True Sovereigns ; An unregulated militia ; Phineas Priests and Lone Wolves ; Army of the Right ; Elohim City ; Friends in high places ; Mainstreaming the Far Right -- Chapter 6. Slouching towards Washington ; Counterjihad ; Fear of a black president ; "Asymmetric Warfare" ; Brewing a movement ; Party of five ; Perfect storm ; It's my party ; This land is my land ; Oath keepers and minutemen ; Ghosting the Far Right -- Chapter 7. Alt-Right. World Wide Web of hate ; Buttoned-down racists ; Revolt of the incels ; Renaissance of the eugenicists ; National Socialists 4.0 ; Charlottesville ; Leaderless resistance redux ; Both sides now ; Conspiracy control ; Dog-whistle media -- Chapter 8. The White House ; Bannon's Holy War ; The global anti-globalist ; The money shot ; Race to the top ; Our glorious leader ; Miller time ; Comorbidities ; Trumped -- Epilogue by Jean Casella.