Carol M. Swain - The new white nationalism in America: its challenge to integration

Swain, Carol M. (Carol Miller)

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Over the past ten years, a new white nationalist movement has gained strength in America, bringing with it the potential to disrupt already fragile race relations. Eschewing violence, this movement seeks to expand its influence mainly through argument and persuasion directed at its target audience of white Americans aggrieved over racial double standards, race-based affirmative action policies, high blackon-white crime rates, and liberal immigration policies. The movement has also been energized, Swain contends, by minority advocacy of multiculturalism. Due to its emphasis on group self-determination, multiculturalism has provided white nationalists with justification for advocating a parallel form of white solidarity. In addition, as Swain illustrates, technological advances such as the Internet have made it easier than ever before for white nationalists to reach a more mainstream audience. Swain's study is intended as a wake-up call to all Americans who cherish the civil rights era vision of an integrated America, a common humanity, and equality before God and the law.

Over the past ten years, a new white nationalist movement has gained strength in America, bringing with it the potential to disrupt already fragile race relations. Eschewing violence, this movement seeks to expand its influence mainly through argument and persuasion directed at its target audience of white Americans aggrieved over racial double standards, race-based affirmative action policies, high black-on-white crime rates, and liberal immigration policies. The movement has also been energized, Swain contends, by minority advocacy of multiculturalism. Due to its emphasis on group self-determination, multiculturalism has provided white nationalists with justification for advocating a parallel form of white solidarity. In addition, as Swain illustrates, technological advances such as the Internet have made it easier than ever before for white nationalists to reach a more mainstream audience. Swains study is intended as a wake-up call to all Americans who cherish the civil rights era vision of an integrated America, a common humanity, and equality before God and the law.

Carol M. Swain is Professor of Political Science and Professor of Law at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of Black Faces, Black Interests: The Representation of African Americans in Congress (1993, 199 5), which was selected by Library Choice Journal as one of the seven outstanding academic books of 1994. Award of the American Political Science Association, the D. B. Hardeman Prize of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation, and the co-winner of the V. O. Key Award of the Southern Political Science Association.

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CAROL M. SWAIN

Vanderbilt University Law School

Cambridge

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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Swain, Carol M. (Carol Miller)

The new white nationalism in America : its challenge to integration /

Carol M. Swain, p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 0-521-80886-3

1. White supremacy movements - United States. 2. United States - Race relations. 3. United States - Ethnic relations. 4. Racism - United States. 5. Hate groups - United States. 6. United States - Social conditions - 1980- I. Title.

E184.A1 S966 2002 305-8o34'o73 - dc2i

2001043919

isbn o 521 80886 3 hardback

To Robert K. Merton for his inspiration and support

List of Figures and Tables page xiii

Preface xv

Acknowledgments xxvii

1 Introduction j

Targeting a Mainstream Audience 3

The Need for Honest Dialogue 6

Data Sources 9

IS THERE CAUSE FOR ALARM? 13

2 The New White Nationalism 15

Some Characteristics of the New White Nationalism 16

Whites and Asians 22

Spin, Repackaging, Expanding the Appeal 25

The Internet 30

Discussion 34

3 Racial Holy War! The Beliefs and Goals of the

Radical Racist Right 3 6

Movement Literature 37

The Turner Diaries 37

The White Mans Bible and Natures Eternal Religion 41 Mein Kampf 44

Racial Holy War: A Call to Violence? 46

Racial Apocalypse: The Christian Identity Movement 48

Dan Gayman and the Church of Israel 52

Discussion 58