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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Patriot Guard Riders takes us on a solemn ride to funerals of young soldiers killed in action. Our guides are a 200,000-strong motorcycle group formed to protect grieving families from members of the Westboro Baptist Church, who harass them for allowing their sons and daughters to serve. The riders escort the the fallen soldiers from the airfield to the burial grounds, where they form a protective shield of honor and respect. The film underscores...
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Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"From a loose movement that lurked in the shadows in the early 2000s, the alt-right has achieved a level of visibility that has allowed it to expand significantly through America's cultural, political, and digital landscapes. Yet it is also mercurial and shape-shifting, encompassing a spectrum of ideas and believers that resonate with white supremacy, right-wing nationalism, and anti-feminism. The alt-right offers a big and porous tent to those who...
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Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
This book explains the ideas, tactics, history, and prominent figures of the so-called Alt-Right, a white nationalist movement that first gained national and international prominence during the 2016 presidential election. It describes this movement's place in contemporary American life, and how the Alt-Right relates to Donald Trump's much larger right-wing populist movement. In clear and dispassionate terms, the book explains the degree to which the...
Author
Publisher
ReferencePoint Press, Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Many extremist groups have emerged in recent years. Moreover, many individuals harbor extremist viewpoints and have taken action on their own. They do this to call attention to their beliefs, cause chaos, and very often commit acts of violence under the misguided notions that their causes are justified and would find widespread acceptance by the American people. Very often, though, these extremists ultimately find themselves sharing prison cells"--...
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Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
#1 New York Times bestselling author of The One Man Andrew Gross once again delivers a tense, stirring thriller of a family torn apart set against the backdrop of a nation plunged into war. February, 1939. Europe teeters on the brink of war. In New York City, twenty-two thousand cheering Nazi supporters pack Madison Square Garden for a raucous, hate-filled rally. In a Hell's Kitchen bar, Charles Mossman is reeling from the loss of his job and the...
Author
Publisher
Nation Books
Pub. Date
©2018.
Language
English
Description
Reveals how white supremacist and nationalist groups rose in influence to achieve political support at the highest levels of government, examining the transformation of once-small groups into threatening mainstream organizations.
"Six years ago, Vegas Tenold embedded himself among the members of three of America's most ideologically extreme white nationalist groups--the KKK, the National Socialist Movement, and the Traditionalist Workers Party. At...
Author
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Confessions of a Free Speech Lawyer is a personal and scholarly examination of the violent confrontations in Charlottesville and the University of Virginia campus in the summer of 2017, focusing on the clash between free speech and protection of civil rights and human dignity"--
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"From a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, the powerful story of how a prominent white supremacist changed his heart and mind Derek Black grew up at the epicenter of white nationalism. His father founded Stormfront, the largest racist community on the Internet. His godfather, David Duke, was a KKK Grand Wizard. By the time Derek turned nineteen, he had become an elected politician with his own daily radio show - already regarded as the "the leading...
Author
Publisher
Pluto Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Media accounts to the contrary, the Alt-Right didn't just burst out of nowhere in 2016. They have been building their network quietly for years, using bulletin boards and social media to spread a toxic hybrid of technological utopianism, reactionary philosophy, and racial hatred. Wendling traces the rise of the movement and the evolution of its ideas, and he introduces us to some of its key figures. Exploring links between Alt-Right rhetoric and hate...
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