Nation and Race

Nation and Race: The Developing Euro-American Racist Subculture is a book edited by Jeffrey Kaplan and Tore Bjørgo. An edited volume, it collects the papers of a December 1995 international conference held in New Orleans; each chapter focuses on aspects of the far-right political subculture. It was first published by Northeastern University Press in 1998.

Nation and Race: The Developing Euro-American Racist Subculture

Cover of the first edition
Editors	Jeffrey Kaplan, Tore Bjørgo
Language	English
Subject	Far-right politics
Publisher	Northeastern University Press
Publication date	1998
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print
Pages	273
ISBN	1-55553-331-0
OCLC	37489626
Dewey Decimal	305.80094
LC Class	HV6250.3.E85 N37 1998

Contents

Following a preface and an introduction, the book includes 10 essays from authors from several disciplines. The first overviews far-right political developments. The essays included cover several subjects of the far-right subculture, including their internet presences, culture, and conspiracy theories.^[1][2][3] The final chapter has Tore Bjørgo overview factors which lead to people leaving racist groups.^[4]

Contributors

• Les Back
• Michael Barkun
• Tore Bjørgo
• Katrine Fangen
• Jeffrey Kaplan
• Michael Keith
• Wolfgang Kühnel
• László Kürti
• Heléne Lööw
• Frederick J. Simonelli
• John Solomos
• Leonard Weinberg

Publication history

The book was edited by academics Jeffrey Kaplan and Tore Bjørgo.^[5] It collects the papers of an international conference funded by the Harry F. Guggenheim foundation, held in New Orleans, from December 8 to 11, 1995.^[6][5] It was published by Northeastern University Press in 1998 as a 273-page paperback and hardcover.^[5][1]

Reception

Multiple reviewers praised the first essay as particularly well written.^[2][3][7] Jerome L. Himmelstein said it presented "an intriguing, important argument",^[6] while Martin Durham noted it as wide-ranging.^[4] A reviewer called the book "new and important" and recommended it, but said it had some content that overlapped with earlier books.^[7] Cas Mudde for Political Studies found the title misleading, with it seeming to focus less on the "developing Euro-American racist subculture" and more "a weird and sinister 'otherworld' of neo-Nazis, skinheads and Satanists, whose common denominator is not only 'Nation and Race', but also the fact that they are all part of 'the loony fringe'".^[1] Mudde said that though this seemed fascinating, the implicit argument by the authors that this then-fringe milieu would influence global events, seemed very unlikely.^[1]