Santa Monica College White Nationalism Book Review and Integration of Class Resources

What does the text contribute to your understanding of race and the political right? 

Based on the authors’ or editors’ approach to the issues or any explicitly stated philosophy, what is the text’s underlying political and social agenda? The answer to this question should not be: “the book’s subject is…”, but rather, an identification of what the authors’ or editors’ want. What changes in policy, practice, or social structures do they want to bring about? What are they trying to persuade their readers of?

1. How does the text relate to the course reserve readings, lectures or other materials? Be very explicit— citing other readings, concepts from lectures, films, or speakers specifically. What does the text add to your understanding of the issues we are addressing in this course? Just mentioning other materials is not adequate. You should explain how they relate to the book or vice versa
2. Must be 800 words minimum
3. Book Review Text Options:
4. Global White Nationalism: From Apartheid to Trump, eds. Geary, Schofield & Sutton

Beyond Populism: Angry Politics & the Twilight of Neoliberalism, eds. Jeff Maskovsky & Sophie Bjork-James

The New White Nationalism in America: Its Challenge to Integration, by Carol M. Swain

Unsettling: The El Paso Massacre, Resurgent White Nationalism, and the U.S.-Mexico Border, by Gilberto Rosas

• The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story, by Nikole Hannah-Jones
• The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism, by Theda Skocpol & Vanessa Williamson
• Proud Boys & the White Ethnostate: How the Alt-Right is Warping the American Imagination, by Alexandra Minna Stern
• Critical Race Theory, 4th edition: An Introduction, by Richard Delgado & Jean Stefancic 
• book: The New White Nationalism in America: Its Challenge to Integration, by Carol M. Swain 

Read for 4/6:
? “When White Nationalism Became Popular”, by Sophie Bjork-James and Jeff
Maskovsky
4/11-4/13: Foundations
Read:
? “Behind Blue Eyes: Whiteness and Contemporary US Racial Politics”, by Howard
Winant
? “Rural Rage: The Roots of Right-Wing Populism in the United States”, by Chip
Berlet & Spencer Sunshine
? (OPTIONAL) “The Persistence of White Supremacy: Indigenous Women
Migrants and the Structures of Settler Capitalism”, by Shannon Speed
Film: “Documenting Hate: New American Nazis” (screened in class)
4/18-4/20: Ideology
Read:
? “The Psychology of White Nationalism: Ambivalence Towards a Changing
America”, by Christine Reyna, Andrea Bellovary & Kara Harris
? “The Victim Ideology of White Supremacists and White Separatists in the United
States”, by Mitch Berbrier
? (OPTIONAL) “Jared Taylor”, Interviewed by Carol M. Swain & Russ Neili

Read:
? “Alt-White: Conceptualizing the “Alt-Right” as a Rhetorical Bridge Between
White Nationalism and Mainstream Public Discourse”, by Stephanie L. Hartzell
? “Right-Wing Populism and the Politics of Insecurity: How President Trump
Frames Migrants as Collective Threats”, by Daniel Béland
? (OPTIONAL) “Whiteness Feels Good Here: Interrogating White Nationalist
Rhetoric on Stormfront”, by Stephanie L. Hartzell
Film: “White Right: Meeting the Enemy” (screened in class)
5/2-5/4: Socialization
Read:
? “Addicted to Hate: Identity Residual Among Former White Supremacists”, by
Pete Simi et al
? “Neo-Nazi Music Subculture”, by Stephen Windisch and Pete Simi
5/9-5/11: Mobilization
Read:
? “Mobilizing the White: White Nationalism and Congressional Politics in the
American South”, by Amanda Weiner & Ariel Zellman
? “Cybersupremacy: The New Face and Form of White Supremacist Activism”, by
R. Sophie Statzel
? (OPTIONAL) “The Boogaloo Bois: the Birth of a “Movement”, From Memes to
Real-World Violence”, by Elise Thomas
Film: “The Billionaires’ Tea Party” (screened in class)
5/16-5/18: Spectacle
Read:
? “Engendering White Nationalism”, by Jeff Maskovsky
? “Understanding the Attacks on Critical Race Theory”, by Francesca López et al
? “White Nationalism & Publicness in the United States”, by Hector Amaya
? “The ACLU Needs to Rethink Free Speech”, by K-Sue Park

5/23-5/25: Conspiracies
Read:
? “Conspiracies, Ideological Entrepreneurs, and Digital Popular Culture”, by Aaron
Hyzen & Hilde Van den Bulck
? “Red Pills, White Genocide and the “Great Replacement”: Rewriting History, and
Constructing White Victimhood in/through Far-Right Extremist Manifestos and
Texts”, by Priya Dixit
Film: “United States of Conspiracy” (screened in class)
5/30-6/1: Responses
Read:
? “What is Antifa, the Movement Trump Wants to Declare a Terror Group?”, by
Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs & Sandra E. Garcia
? “The Roots of Anti-Racist, Anti-Fascist Resistance in the US”, by Robin D.G.
Kelley
? “A National Policy Blueprint to End White Supremacist Violence”, by Brette
Steele et al
? (OPTIONAL) “A Practical Guide to Defeating MAGA”, by Indivisible
6/6-6/8: Conclusions
Read:
? “Black Movement Formation: Race, Class, Gender, Capitalist Globalization, and
White Nationalism Today”, by Rose Brewer
? “Breaking Up with White Supremacy was Always the End Game”, by Tressie
Mcmillan Cottom
? “To Be Clear, White Supremacy is the Foundation of Our Country: We Won’t
Destroy It by Toppling Statutes”, by Crystal Marie Fleming