Over at the TPMCafé bookclub, Leonard Zeskind offers a brief description of his book Blood and Politics: The History of the White Nationalist Movement from the Margins to the Mainstream. In it, he describes how
While this movement draws heavily from the constitutional understandings common at the time of the Dred Scott decision, they do not seek a return to Jim Crow segregation. Rather they are looking to create in the future a whites-only republic on the North American continent. In the vernacular of the civil rights movement, these white supremacists are not trying to put black people (and other people of color) in their "place," rather in their world there is no place for black people.
He urges against seeing these movements as necessarily allied or harmonious:
White power skinheads in this treatment are less "street soldiers" for older racists, and more a sub-cultural mini-movement searching for its own political territory. You will watch the anti-immigrant movement grow out of racist and white nationalist concerns, not out of economic hard times for white people.
