A major contribution! Abby Ferber's edited volume takes our understanding of race/class/gender intersectionality to a new and higher level. Home-Grown Hate shows how gender issues-and especially male anxieties-are key sources of racism. Every student of race and racism, every anti-racist activist, should read this book carefully. Home-Grown Hate should be adopted for ethnic studies and women's studies courses, and for traditional disciplines as well |o Howard Winant, author of The World Is a Ghetto: Race and Democracy Since World War II This provocative collection of articles is simultaneously a comprehensive overview of white supremacists movements in the U.S. and a groundbreaking analysis of how gender, race, and class intertwine to shape every aspect of extreme right movements. Home-Grown Hate is must reading for scholars and students of social movements and gender, or anyone who wants a better understanding of the way class-based anger, racial entitlement, and gender inequality shape men's and women's participation in white supremacist movements |o Verta Taylor, co-author of Drag Queens at the 801 Cabaret A must-read for anyone wanting to understand the extreme right wing in the United States today. While most analyses of extremist groups focus only on racism and xenophobia, the contributors to this volume show how sexism and patriarchy are also central to right wing ideology. This results in a deeper and more disturbing picture of a social movement that is a profound threat to all who want to achieve a more egalitarian society |o Fred L. Pincus, author of Reverse Discrimination: Dismantling the Myth

Are all terrorists men? Why are most school shooters teenage boys? What role do women play in the spread of hatred? Many books, news programs and magazine articles have examined the rise and activities of extremist and white supremacist groups; however, the role of gender in right-wing ideology has been almost completely overlooked. The original essays in this collection explore the link between gender and racism in a variety of racial and white supremacy organizations, including white separatists, the Christian right, the militia/patriot movements, skinheads and more. Abby Ferber brings together the leading voices studying hate groups to investigate ways that gender influences the hate crimes that we read about in the papers and see on the news. Home-Grown Hate is an important and timely contribution that advances our understanding of these hate groups, analyzes their movements and sets the agenda in developing strategies to prevent the further proliferation of hate.

Contents:
Foreword, Michael Kimmel
Introduction, Abby L. Ferber
Mapping the Political Right: Gender and Race Oppression in Right-Wing Movements -Chip Berlet
Women and Organized Racism -Kathleen Blee
White Genocide: White Supremacists and the Politics of Reproduction - Barbara Perry
Normalizing Racism: A Case Study of Motherhood in White Supremacy -Jackie Litt and JoAnn Rogers
The White Separatist Movement: Worldviews on Gender, Feminism, Nature and Change - Betty Dobratz and Stephanie Shanks-Meile
"White Men Are This Nation": Right Wing Militias and the Restoration of Rural American Masculinity - Abby Ferber and Michael Kimmel
"Getting It": The Role of Women in Male Desistance from Hate Groups - Randy Blazak
The Dilemma of Difference: Gender and Hate Crime Policy -Valerie Jenness
Green or Brown? White Nativist Environmental Movements - Rajani Bhatia
Afterword: The Growing Influence of Right Wing Thought- Peggy McIntoshThought, Peggy McIntosh

A teachable new book about race at the University of Oregon, told from the students' perspective, has just come out from Rowman and Littlefield Publishers. Co-authored by Julia Lesage, Abby Ferber, Debbie Storrs, and Donna Wong, the book is entitled Making a Difference: University Students of Color Speak Out.In the first half of the book, college students of color relate their first-hand experiences with educational institutions and campus living conditions. In its address, the book is framed so as to be useful to teachers, administrators, and workplace organizers. Most of all, the book is a user-friendly guide. The students' voices reveal the power of personal narratives to illuminate and contest dominant society's often hidden beliefs about race, culture, institutional goals, and power. Following the narratives, contextualizing essays focus on teaching and acting collectively to create a more diverse environment, across student-teacher-administrative-staff divisions. A lengthy appendix provides extensive, up-to-date resources and concrete tools, including diversity websites, lists of associations, a bibliography, and videography of autobiographical videos by people of color. This book has lots to teach faculty and students (both white and non-white), parents of college students, college administrators, and executives and administrators of other institutions and businesses. The contextualizing essays following the student narratives are written by teachers and student affairs professionals who draw links between issues of institutional access, recruitment and retention of students and faculty of color, curriculum changes, teaching strategies--especially for teaching whiteness and racial identity formation, campus climate, and the relation between an individual institution's history of dealing with race to developments in public policy.

Reducing Hate Crimes and Violence Among American Youth: Creating Transformational Agency Through Critical Praxis (Counterpoints, New York, N.Y., Vol. 186), by Greg S. Goodman. Peter Lang Publishing, January 2002, ISBN 0-8204-52807. As hate crimes and violence continue to hurt the innocent, our society has looked little beyond retribution and punishment for the perpetrators. This book breaks new ground by looking at the ways in which educators and school boards can work to develop transfor-mational agency for those students most at risk. By developing alternative schools that foster strong relationships through supportive communities, disaffected youth can find hope and trust within themselves as they continue their educational and social develop-ment. Undergirded with critical and border pedagogy, alternative schools effectively build transformative agency within their students by genuinely caring about their success. Greg S. Goodman works as a school psychologist in Clovis, California, and he teaches in the Graduate School of Counseling and Special Education at California State University, Fresno.

COOL SLIDE SHOW

Chip Berlet of Political Research Associates has a cool slideshow called The Right: 101. Check it out here.