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Title: The Racist Mind: Portraits of American Neo-Nazis and Klansmen by Raphael S. Ezekiel ISBN: 0-14-023449-7 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: July, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.2 (5 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Whacky Left Wing Hot Air
Comment: A "Chosen" Shrink uses Stalinistic tactics to promote his world view. Very typical stuff. A good book to read to understand why the Jews can't living in peace with anyone.
Rating: 3
Summary: Interesting.
Comment: I have known in the past several of the people Mr. Ezekiel spent time on for his book, and despite his tireless (and increasingly annoying) left-wing babble, he paints a fairly accurate picture of the modern "racialism" movement as the unemployable, the troubled, the hopeless... the lost.
Rating: 2
Summary: A Waste of Time
Comment: Raphael "Rafe" Ezekiel wrote this book as a result of his numerous field studies on hate groups and their members. What promises to be an interesting look inside the so-called "far right" ends up being a pretty dull look at a group of punks that try and pass themselves as Nazis.
The book is divided into three sections. The first section is Ezekiel's reactions to his attending several high profile meetings of racial organizations. The first meeting is a KKK rally at Stone Mountain, Georgia. The other meeting is one of the congregations held by the now defunct Aryan Nations in Idaho. He also attended the sedition trial at Fort Smith, Arkansas. All we get from these events is a bunch of psycho babble from "Rafe" about how he feels about interviewing a bunch of racists. He makes sure to talk to the wackiest people he can find, and then make blanket statements about everybody involved as a whole. The second part of the book consists of interviews with national leaders in the Movement, such as Tom Metzger of WAR, and Richard Butler of Aryan Nations. The last part of the book, and by far the largest part, deals with a gang of whites that have taken the name "Death's Head Strike Group", who are located in Detroit. Rafe (I'm not being snide when I refer to him as Rafe. Several people in the book refer to him by this nickname) makes much of his Jewish heritage and how it is constantly insulted by these people. They're racists! Of course a Jew would be offended! I would be too if I were a Jew. You'd think someone of Jewish background would be aware of this before they started. But the point of writing a work like this is to try and present an unbiased account of the subject matter. This topic is by its very nature heated, and strong words have been written on both sides of the fence. This reader wasn't looking for another polemic. I was hoping for some real insights. Instead I get hurt feelings and some really wacked out testimony by sixteen year old high school dropouts on what it means to be a Nazi. At least the interviews of the leaders were worth reading. Especially Tom Metzger, who comes off as pretty intelligent, although somewhat cynical.
Ezekiel should be careful about passing off everyone in the National Socialist Movement as some idiot that can't even spell his name. With the advent of the Internet, there are young, wealthy and intelligent people that are quickly becoming adherents. I remember seeing a news program about Matt Hale, the head of the World Church of the Creator (and a law school graduate) working with another young college grad in his office. They were both listening to Mozart while they prepared flyers. This is the new face of the Movement, not what is presented here by Mr. Ezekiel.
Read this book for the three interviews with the national leaders and skip the rest. This book could have been a lot better. Instead, all we get is pap.
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Title: Religion and the Racist Right: The Origins of the Christian Identity Movement by Michael Barkun ISBN: 0807846384 Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr Pub. Date: December, 1996 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Blood in the Face: The Ku Klux Klan, Aryan Nations, Nazi Skinheads, and the Rise of a New White Culture by James Ridgeway ISBN: 156025100X Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press Pub. Date: December, 1995 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The White Separatist Movement in the United States: White Power White Pride by Betty A. Dobratz, Stephanie L. Shanks-Meile ISBN: 0801865379 Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr Pub. Date: April, 2001 List Price(USD): $20.95 |
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Title: The Klan by Patsy Sims ISBN: 081310887X Publisher: University Press of Kentucky Pub. Date: November, 1996 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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Title: American Extremists: Militias, Supremacists, Klansmen, Communists & Others by John George, Laird M. Wilcox ISBN: 1573920584 Publisher: Prometheus Books Pub. Date: May, 1996 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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