A friend recommended this book after she attended the Portland Book Festival this year and heard the author talk about white nationalism. I was immediately interested and at first decided to wait till she had finished reading her copy; then, found that I could not wait and ordered my own copy.
Last year, I had started to read the tweets and posts of some white supremacist women after the Charlottesville rally. Their point of view was alarming and the words that they so casually used startled me - 'white genocide' being one of them.
This is the story of how one of the creators of that point of view and the heir apparent to the WN movement, Derek Black, changed his own point of view and then publicly disavowed his WN beliefs. It is fascinating and hopeful.
I highly recommend this book.
Added Nov 20th: . I was listening to Derek Black and Mathew Stevenson on NPR and one thing struck me particularly. Black emphasized that it was not ONLY the friendship and the quiet conversations that changed his mind but also the condemnation from others around him that forced him to rethink his stance. He said that you need both.
Last year, I had started to read the tweets and posts of some white supremacist women after the Charlottesville rally. Their point of view was alarming and the words that they so casually used startled me - 'white genocide' being one of them.
This is the story of how one of the creators of that point of view and the heir apparent to the WN movement, Derek Black, changed his own point of view and then publicly disavowed his WN beliefs. It is fascinating and hopeful.
I highly recommend this book.
Added Nov 20th: . I was listening to Derek Black and Mathew Stevenson on NPR and one thing struck me particularly. Black emphasized that it was not ONLY the friendship and the quiet conversations that changed his mind but also the condemnation from others around him that forced him to rethink his stance. He said that you need both.
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