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The New White Nationalism in America: Its Challenge to Integration First Edition Edition

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ISBN-13: 978-0521808866
ISBN-10: 0521808863
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  • Hardcover: 556 pages
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press; First Edition edition (June 10, 2002)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0521808863
  • ISBN-13: 978-0521808866
  • Product Dimensions: 6 x 1.6 x 9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #332,920 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Black Political Scientist Carol Swain has produced a very important work which not only examines the growth of the new white nationalist movement in America, but also its sources. Swain notes that in the last ten years or so, a new, non-violent type of white nationalism has been growing in America, one that seeks to win people over through logic and argumentation. These groups vary from moderate to radical, but underlying them all is the same message: America is being undermined by minorities and immigrants. Perhaps the most important of these groups is "American Renaissance" led by Jared Taylor. Taylor is highly educated as are most his followers. They are against multiculturalism and seek to change the demographic balance in the country.
But Swain's examination of the various groups and their messages is only the begining. She then examines the three main issues that are fueling the rise of these groups appeal to mainstream white Americans: Immigration, Crime, and Affirmative-Action. Swain argues that current immigration policy is not sensitive to local needs and a discussion on reform is needed. Unfortunately, no such discussion exists at this moment. Similiarly, high black crime rates are a taboo subject which no mainstream politician will discuss, leaving the issue to be framed by the white nationalists who argue that blacks are criminal by nature. Again, the lack of an open discussion is the greatest problem in confronting this issue. Swain offers no solution on how to lower black crime, however. But the fact that she acknowledges black crime rates are indeed higher is a brave break from the past. The third major issue feeding the movement is affirmative action, seen by many whites as discrimination. More than any other issue, it contributes to the appeal of white nationalism.
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If you are looking for a truthfully unbiased book about the growing nationalism in our country, this is not the book for you. From the opening page the author tries to label the movement and its growth as the rehashed baby boy of the socially unacceptable white supremacy movements of America's recent past. Even though she does admit to the reasons that more and more Americans of European descent are being driven to an ethno- cultural nationalistic way of thinking, she still paints the underlying motivation as pursuit of white supremacy and white dominance mixed with our inherent insecurities and need for control. She informs us that the beliefs all stem from white supremacist plots to trick and coerce common Americans to their way of thinking. Isn't it funny how all sorts of people across the nation are getting similar ideas when they have never even touched base with each other? Quite possibly could it be that some people have grudgingly begun to accept the facts for what they are? The author makes an attempt to win credibility by conceding certain points about racial differences in crime rates, hate crimes, etc, but still refuses to shoulder the responsibilty for her people's actions and lacking social behavior, and she shows a marked inability to understand why other people and other races would care to distance themselves from these things.This book falls back on the old philosophy "if we can label it as racist, then maybe we can curtail it before it even gets started". All I can say is that I am very disappointed in this book. From the reviews I read I expected a completely unbiased book slammed full of interesting facts and truths that we are all so in need of seeing in print. Am I a racist if I wish for my children to grow up in a safe environment?Read more ›
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The author is a tax-supported "scholarship student" (by her admission), who dutifully says what such people are paid to say. She actually advocates censorship of the Internet, (when it doesn't conform to her views or the views of the think-tanks with which she's affiliated), something that made me so angry I contacted her. The book, quite frankly, made me sorry for my family's positive sense of "civil rights." To have given this woman "a voice," only to have her use it to condemn and silence populations unlike herself, and to censor the Internet. That was so amazing. And with such little sensitivity to how many poor whites, in the country so many more generations, are locked out of things like college, just so she can go on the tax dollar.
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As an Englishman (a Geordie to be precise) and admirer of America, this book is a welcome discussion of the problem of race in the States, a problem which runs far deeper than in Britain. The simple fact is that the epithet "racist" has become a profoundly effective weapon in propagating the slave morality which Nietzsche so despised. No one suggests that America is "white" because that particular demographic happened to be the most powerful, therefore the most deserving - a self-evident trait. No, instead the missionaries of the underclasses rant and rave about the "fact" that whites "cheated" to become dominant - as if they were possessed of some demonic power. The fact is, I abhor people who have disgust for other races than their own, but i abhor equally the acceptable face of anti-Nordicism. The fact is that whites dominated the earth because of simultaneous developments in their culture around the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries - notably the evolution of capitalism. Whomever suggests that whites overcame undeservedly is clearly jealous of this master morality (cf. the Greeks, the Romans, the French and British Empires, etc) which was also a feature of non-white peoples like the Arabs and the Chinese; and yet they have no reason to be - historical dialecticism is not the goal of humanity, contrary to the assertions of the Hegelian-Marxists.
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