
The Modern White Power Movement


Connie Jin
It has been nearly twenty years since 9/11 and during that time much of the media coverage and government attention has been directed at the threat of radical Islamist terrorism. Yet, during that time, it has been domestic terrorism from armed, mostly white American men, that has posed the biggest threat. This week, the rise of the modern white power movement.
If you would like to read more on the topic, here's a list:
- Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America by Kathleen Belew
- The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition by Linda Gordon
- Everything You Love Will Burn: Inside the Rebirth of White Nationalism in America by Vegas Tenold
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