![]() ![]() Portraying the Oklahoma City bombing particularly as the work of one, or a few actors worked to totally erase what the country had understood about white power violence before that event. Race A Former Neo-Nazi Explains Why Hate Drew Him In - And How He Got Out "It's called Bring the War Home because that provided the clearest way of thinking about a problem I ran into in the archive," Belew says, "which is that Klansmen and neo-Nazis committing violence in the United States - ranging from veterans to those who didn't serve in the war - commonly understood the Vietnam War and invoked the war to describe why they chose the activism they did, and to frame their tactics and their uses of violence in many different contexts." In it, she explains what many disparate events have in common - the war in Vietnam. But it's only the latest in a history of social activism that goes back decades - and, as Kathleen Belew argues in her new book, Bring the War Home, we ignore that history at our peril. Last year, when neo-Nazis and members of the so called alt-right demonstrated in Charlottesville, Va., many Americans evinced shock that such a thing could happen: A demonstration of the white power movement, in 2017. ![]() Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Bring the War Home Subtitle The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America Author Kathleen Belew ![]()
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