White Lies: Race, Class, Gender and Sexuality in White Supremacist Discourse (Paperback)

~ (Author) "This book is an investigation into the white supremacist imagination..." (more)
Key Phrases: white supremacist publications, white supremacist discourse, white supremacist movement, United States, Racial Loyalty, The Klansman (more...)

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White supremacist groups have traditionally been viewed as "fringe" groups to be ignored, dismissed, or at most, observed warily. White Lies investigates the white supremacist imagination, and argues instead that the ideology of these groups is much closer to core American values than most of us would like to believe. The book explores white supremacist ideology through an analysis of over 300 publications from a variety of white supremacist organizations. It examines the discourse of these publications and the ways in which "whites," "blacks," and "Jews" are constructed within that discourse.

About the Author

Jessie Daniels is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Hofstra University

Product Details

• Paperback: 171 pages
• Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (December 27, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0415912903
• ISBN-13: 978-0415912907
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.9 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #510,908 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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2.0 out of 5 stars They were Okay, September 8, 2009

By	R. Johnson - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I did get my book, but just a day before my class started and I ordered it three weeks in advance, I tried to find out were the book was at and it was very hard. I was not able to every reach anyone at the company, and when I finally got an email address they did not answer me until two weeks after I received my book.

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4.0 out of 5 stars An eye opener, May 13, 2000

By	aVaena (Arlington, VA USA) - See all my reviews

White Lies was one of the books assigned in my sexualities class this past term. In the beginning of the novel, Jessie Daniels quotes Toni Morrison: "The scholarship that looks into the mind, imagination, and behavior of slaves is valuable. But equally valuable is a serious intellectual effort to see what racial ideology does to the mind, imagination, and behavior of masters."

Daniels makes such an effort with this excellent analysis of the discourses of white supremacist organizations. She repeatedly points out the hypocrisy of these organizations, and makes the astute point that dismissing these people as ignorant or harmless radicals serves "to comfortably distance the majority of whites from those who proudly claim to be racists, and thus from any interrogation of their own position within the broader White Supremacist context" (p. 9). Daniels urges us to look at the similarities between obviously racist organizations and other groups in society, for it is only in a society already prone to racist ideas that such organizations can exist.