| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 108.2

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Carol M. Swain. The New White Nationalism in America: Its Challenge to Integration. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2002. Pp. xxix, 526. $30.00.

This is a highly problematic book. Carol M. Swain has an agenda: she wants to convince the public that current government policies are exacerbating racial problems in the United States and that religion, especially Christianity, can play a role in the solution. The argument is straightforward, if curious. Swain argues that racially contentious policies like affirmative action and liberal immigration policies not only are misguided but may bring more whites into the racist movement. This is an increasing possibility today, she contends, because of changes in the political outlook of many whites as well as changes in the racist movement. Racial preferences in university/college admission and employment and the growing ratio of nonwhites to whites in the population fuel resentment among whites already frustrated by such factors as the decline in industrial jobs and high rates of black-on-white crime. At the same time, the white racist movement has become more savvy at recruiting mainstream whites, packaging its message in the language of civil rights, being willing to talk about difficult race issues otherwise unmentionable in liberal circles, and finding the Internet the perfect vehicle to reach a wide audience. To avoid the catastrophe of a mass influx into white racist groups, Swain concludes, we need to address those legitimate issues about race that are being raised by racist groups and embrace the potential of religion to alleviate some of the thorny racial issues facing the country. . . .

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