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In 1990, BLOOD IN THE FACE: The Ku Klux Klan, Aryan Nations, Nazi Skinheads, andthe Rise of a New White Culture was the first book to uncover the contours, beliefs, leaders, and wider influence of the American racist far-right movement. It told their story from the insideout, complete with interviews, recruiting pamphlets, cartoons, rants, sermons, threats, policereports, and more. The accompanying analysis by veteran investigative reporter James Ridgeway detailed the movement 's volatile history and its expansion beginning in the 1980s, insisting that the groups making up this fringe" culture were too powerful--and too much a part of Americanculture--to be ignored or dismissed."--
The SPLC estimates that there are currently more than 900 hate groups -- organizations with beliefs that attack an entire group of people -- operating in the country. Many of these hate groups subscribe to the ideals of white supremacy.
A classic overview of the rise of modern-day white nationalism
Trump has given the racist far right one of its biggest boosts since the civil rights era of the 1960s.
THe book has been completely updated to meet the current moment of racial unrest and the dangerous rise in white supremecy.
In this new book--also titled BLOOD IN THE FACE, but with a new subtitle and more than 50 percent new, original material--Ridgeway revisits and revises the earlier book with an eye toward the insights it holds for the present. Four new chapters trace the progress of the racist far right through the 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s--which to a large degree involves its encroachment of the Republican Party, culminating in the Trump presidency--the most extreme expression in modern times of racist far-right ideas finding purchase in mainstream U.S. politics. A new epilogue discusses possible futures for an unhinged American republic.
