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Article: White Lies: Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality in White Supremacist Discourse.
(book reviews)
- Article from:
- Social Forces
- Article date:
- September 1, 1998
- Author:
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1998 University of North Carolina Press. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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By Jessie Daniels. Routledge, 1997. 171 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $15.95.
Reviewer:. DEBRA VAN AUSDALE, Syracuse University
The inspiration for this book came from Jesse Daniels's life-long struggle with the notion of white superiority. Demonstrating how this sense of superiority is revealed in contemporary white supremacist literature and is mirrored in ordinary discourse is the central project. Daniels dissects the white supremacist movements and discourse and points out its similarities to mainstream conservative ideology. The book challenges the common view that white supremacy is the province of only a tiny and isolated minority of white Americans and ...