Encyclopedia of White Power
Encyclopedia of White Power: A Sourcebook on the Radical Racist Right is a reference book edited by Jeffrey Kaplan. It focuses on the White Power movement, mainly United States groups and individuals (with a few Norwegian and Swedish groups and individuals also included).
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| Editor | Jeffrey Kaplan |
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| Publisher | AltaMira Press |
Publication date | 2000 |
| Pages | 585 pp. |
| ISBN | 978-0-7425-0340-3 |
| OCLC | 42889808 |
In addition to contributions by academics, it includes entries by far-right-wing people, as well as a section of primary sources. Kaplan's criteria for inclusion was that "the movements and individuals should be (i) strongly racialist, (ii) revolutionary, and (iii) have a strong religious streak." He approached contributors with the requirement that the authors "write an entry that would 'neither demonize nor proselytize, but would leave an accurate and unbiased historical record.'" It contains analysis of the organizations and philosophies in the white power movement and the inter-relationships that exist between the movement's leaders and groups. It was published by Altamira Press, a division of Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., as a 585-page hardcover in 2000 (ISBN 0-7425-0340-2).
Quotation
The demonization of the radical right ill serves us when now, more than ever before, it is vitally important to know all we can about this esoteric milieu's nature and potentialities.
Moreover, at the end of this quest, I did find something even more remarkable than the fact that "we" and "they" are both human beings and have important commonalties. This discovery was more unsettling still, for just as Doug Milford had warned, I found that there IS genuine evil in the world. It is rare. It is subtle. But it is real.
By demonizing the many, we cloak the few, and, however unwittingly, ourselves facilitate the existence of evil in the world.
— Jeffrey Kaplan, Encyclopedia of White Power, Introduction, pp. xxxiii and xxxiv
External links
- Encyclopedia of White Power, reviewed by Cas Mudde (University of Edinburgh) for e-Extreme: Electronic Newsletter of the ECPR-SG on Extremism & Democracy, Vol. 2, No. 1, Spring 2001.
- Encyclopedia of White Power Limited Preview