RDBook: Christian White Nationalism in the Age of Obama
By Bill Berkowitz
April 27, 2009
What’s a white racist to do these days? A new book examines the history of white nationalism as it has moved from the fringe to the mainstream, describes the religious roots of the movement, and alerts us to its political and social goals.
Blood and Politics: The History of the White Nationalist Movement from the Margins to the Mainstream
By Leonard Zeskind
(Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2009)
In the 1970s, 80s, and 90s, the deeply-held religious beliefs of an assortment of white nationalists became the scaffolding for a broad, and often violent, movement of racists and anti-Semites. …
To read the rest of the story, which is an interview with Leonard Zeskind and a review of Blood and Politics, go to http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/rdbook/1362/great_article_!/