white supremacy movements

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Hate next door

undercover within the new face of white supremacy
2023
"In THE HATE NEXT DOOR, retired police officer and founder of the Skinhead Intelligence Network, Matson Browning, tells the incendiary story of his time undercover in hate groups across Arizona. He also traces the rise and fall of J.T. Ready, a white supremacist, militia member, and later, elected official and murderer. Through it all, Browning illuminates the sociopolitical factors shaping the modern white supremacy movement, and exposes the varied profiles of its members. Between the braided narratives of Ready's rise to power and Browning's own experiences deep undercover, THE HATE NEXT DOOR, gives readers unparalleled insight into the dark and complicated workings of modern white supremacy, teaching readers to recognize the warning signs and empowering them to fight back"--.

A Fever in the Heartland

the Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
2023
"Tells the . . . story of the Klan's rise to power in the 1920s, the . . . con man who drove that rise, and the woman who stopped them"--Provided by publisher.

Homegrown

Timothy McVeigh and the birth of white extremism
"Timothy McVeigh wanted to start a movement. After the Oklahoma City bombing, the Gulf War veteran expressed no regrets. Jeffrey Toobin details how McVeigh's principles and tactics have flourished in the decades since his death in 2001, reaching an apotheosis on January 6 when hundreds of rioters stormed the Capitol. Based on nearly a million previously unreleased tapes, photographs, and documents, including detailed communications between McVeigh and his lawyers, as well as interviews with such key figures as Bill Clinton, Toobin reveals how the story of Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City bombing is not only a powerful retelling of one of the great outrages of our time, but a warning for our future"--.

Some kind of hate

2022
When freshman Declan Taylor hurts his pitching arm he becomes mad at the world, soon getting caught up with a group of white supremacists and turning against his Jewish former friend, Jake--but when things turn violent Declan must figure out what he actually stands for.

Hollow fires

School newspaper editor Safiya Mirza's dreams of becoming a journalist get a grim start when she is the first person to discover the body of the murdered boy, Jawad Ali--the fourteen-year-old Muslim boy who created a costume jet pack, which got mistaken for a bomb, which led him to be labeled a terrorist, and which finally led a group of white supremacists to murder him. Guided in her investigation by the haunting voice of Jawad, though, Safiya will discover a secret and lies while the jury in the case is still undecided, which will challenge everyone's notions of facts and truth.

The truth about white lies

After seventeen-year-old Shania moves to the town of Blue Rock following the death of her beloved grandmother, she must reckon with the town's dark history of racism and its affects on her peers who attend Bard, the city's wealthy private school.

Wilmington's lie

the murderous coup of 1898 and the rise of white supremacy
2021
Discusses the Wilmington riot and coup of 1898, including the rise of white supremacy.

No common ground

Confederate monuments and the ongoing fight for racial justice
Discusses the history of Confederate monuments and the efforts to both erect and preserve them by some, and protest and remove them from public spaces by others. Explains how organizers view the monuments on both sides of the issue, how gerrymandering and heritage laws were passed during various eras to protect them, and how Black elected officials and others have fought against such legislation.

Not my idea

a book about whiteness
A young white child watches a news report of a white police officer shooting and killing a Black man. The child's family refuses to answer the child's questions, so the child goes to the library to research racism in America and learns that racism is a white person's problem and about the evils of white supremacy.

Bring the war home

the white power movement and paramilitary America
2018
Presents a history of the white power movement that strengthened following the Vietnam War due to a sense of betrayal and view of not being allowed to win the Vietnam war, and how the movement was formed and organized by a cadre of veterans, active-duty personnel, and civilian supporters.

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