The New White Nationalism in America: Its Challenge to Integration / Edition 1

The New White Nationalism in America: Its Challenge to Integration / Edition 1

by Carol M. Swain
ISBN-10:
0521545587
ISBN-13:
9780521545587
Pub. Date:
02/23/2004
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-10:
0521545587
ISBN-13:
9780521545587
Pub. Date:
02/23/2004
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
The New White Nationalism in America: Its Challenge to Integration / Edition 1

The New White Nationalism in America: Its Challenge to Integration / Edition 1

by Carol M. Swain
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Overview

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. 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780521545587
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 02/23/2004
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 556
Sales rank: 1,148,148
Product dimensions: 5.94(w) x 8.94(h) x 1.38(d)

About the Author

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 (Harvard University Press, 1993, 1995), which was selected by Library Choice Journal as one of the seven outstanding academic books of 1994. Black Faces was also the winner of the 1994 Woodrow Wilson prize.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction; Part I. Is There Cause for Alarm?: 2. The new white nationalism; 3. Racial holy war! - the beliefs and goals of the more radical racist right; 4. Demographic change and immigration issues; 5. Crime and fear of violence; Part II. Affirmative Action: Is This the Perfect Grievance?: 6. Affirmative action: past and present; 7. Framing effects, opinion surveys, and the evidence from focus groups; 8. A grievance made to order?; 9. The path from discrimination to reverse discrimination in higher education; Part III. What Can Happen to Young People in a Racially Charged Environment?: 10. The growing competitiveness for college and university admissions; 11. Multiculturalism and racial double standards; 12. White nationalist recruitment in America; Part IV. Remedies: 13. A search for consensus in college and university admissions; 14. Can religion promote greater racial and social harmony among America's diverse people?; 15. Concluding observations and policy recommendations.
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