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American Swastika provides an up-to-date perspective on the white power movement in America. The book takes readers through hidden enclaves of hate, exploring how white supremacy movements thrive nationwide and how we can work to prevent future violence. Filled with powerful case studies, interviews, and first-person accounts, the book explains the differences between various hate groups, then shows how white supremacy groups cultivate their membership through Aryan homes, parties, rituals, music festivals, and online propaganda. American Swastika is essential reading for understanding both how hate builds and how we can work to prevent violence.

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"American Swastika sheds clear light and the beliefs, activities, and goals of those in the far right. Actually hearing their words and ""seeing"" them in action via the qualitative descriptions helps readers get a clear idea as to who these people are and the danger they pose. --Harold Geistman, Wayne State University Simi and Futrell provide a valuable service by shedding light on the ""ordinariness"" of white power activism, which can make it that much more dangerous. They take social networks seriously when addressing the big questions about how people can adhere to despicable beliefs and to endure stigma in their daily lives for holding those beliefs and engaging in repulsive activities. They remind us of how collective identities are not created in a vacuum and if they are not regularly reinforced, they die. American Swastika shows how heterodox beliefs and practices require constant reinforcement in settings that normalize white supremacy and embed it within cultural practices and social ties. The timely third edition of this extraordinary book offers priceless insight into the way that racist extremism has polluted our politics. --Rory McVeigh, University of Notre Dame Since its initial publication in 2010, American Swastika has been the go-to source for comprehending the dangerous persistence of racist hate movements in the U.S. With this new edition, Pete Simi and Robert Futrell take an important additional step--offering not only a catalog of the white supremacist threat as it exists today, but a framework for explaining how related movements have, and will, continue to develop and evolve if left unchecked. Their crucial intervention--demonstrating how the troubling far-right mobilizations that marked the Trump presidency furthered longstanding patterns of racist hate--serves as a lucid and insightful primer on how evolving technological and political landscapes have provided tools for white supremacists to exploit. Scholars, policymakers, and invested citizen-readers alike will find no better resource for understanding the threats posed by organized racism--and no clearer roadmap for effectively responding to those threats. --David Cunningham, Washington University in St. Louis The ethnographic nature of American Swastika provides students with a close, intense look at the disturbingly banal nature of white supremacy. The accessible writing provides a visceral experience for students, who are confronted with the reality of race-based hatred within the United States. --Cedric Heraux, Adrian College The main strength of American Swastika is the degree to which Simi was able to directly interact with these groups and attempt to accurately describe their specific point of view. When analyzing this material with Futrell, they were able to give an in-depth analysis of this process and the phenomenology that emerges from it. --David Polizzi, Indiana state University"

"American Swastika sheds clear light and the beliefs, activities, and goals of those in the far right. Actually hearing their words and ""seeing"" them in action via the qualitative descriptions helps readers get a clear idea as to who these people are and the danger they pose. --Harold Geistman, Wayne State University The ethnographic nature of American Swastika provides students with a close, intense look at the disturbingly banal nature of white supremacy. The accessible writing provides a visceral experience for students, who are confronted with the reality of race-based hatred within the United States. --Cedric Heraux, Adrian College The main strength of American Swastika is the degree to which Simi was able to directly interact with these groups and attempt to accurately describe their specific point of view. When analyzing this material with Futrell, they were able to give an in-depth analysis of this process and the phenomenology that emerges from it. --David Polizzi, Indiana state University"

"The ethnographic nature of American Swastika provides students with a close, intense look at the disturbingly banal nature of white supremacy. The accessible writing provides a visceral experience for students, who are confronted with the reality of race-based hatred within the United States. --Cedric Heraux, Adrian College Simi and Futrell provide a valuable service by shedding light on the ""ordinariness"" of white power activism, which can make it that much more dangerous. They take social networks seriously when addressing the big questions about how people can adhere to despicable beliefs and to endure stigma in their daily lives for holding those beliefs and engaging in repulsive activities. They remind us of how collective identities are not created in a vacuum and if they are not regularly reinforced, they die. American Swastika shows how heterodox beliefs and practices require constant reinforcement in settings that normalize white supremacy and embed it within cultural practices and social ties. The timely third edition of this extraordinary book offers priceless insight into the way that racist extremism has polluted our politics. --Rory McVeigh, University of Notre Dame Since its initial publication in 2010, American Swastika has been the go-to source for comprehending the dangerous persistence of racist hate movements in the U.S. With this new edition, Pete Simi and Robert Futrell take an important additional step--offering not only a catalog of the white supremacist threat as it exists today, but a framework for explaining how related movements have, and will, continue to develop and evolve if left unchecked. Their crucial intervention--demonstrating how the troubling far-right mobilizations that marked the Trump presidency furthered longstanding patterns of racist hate--serves as a lucid and insightful primer on how evolving technological and political landscapes have provided tools for white supremacists to exploit. Scholars, policymakers, and invested citizen-readers alike will find no better resource for understanding the threats posed by organized racism--and no clearer roadmap for effectively responding to those threats. --David Cunningham, Washington University in St. Louis American Swastika sheds clear light and the beliefs, activities, and goals of those in the far right. Actually hearing their words and ""seeing"" them in action via the qualitative descriptions helps readers get a clear idea as to who these people are and the danger they pose. --Harold Geistman, Wayne State University The main strength of American Swastika is the degree to which Simi was able to directly interact with these groups and attempt to accurately describe their specific point of view. When analyzing this material with Futrell, they were able to give an in-depth analysis of this process and the phenomenology that emerges from it. --David Polizzi, Indiana state University"

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Pete Simi is professor of sociology at Chapman University and executive committee member for the National Counterterrorism, Innovation, Technology, and Education (NCITE) Center at the University of Nebraska. Robert Futrell is professor of sociology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and longtime expert on right-wing extremism. Emily Wagner is a Ph.D. student at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas who studies right-wing politics and activism.

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