There is a great deal of information available about White nationalist groups. This post compiles some sources that profile the different groups and personalities among today’s White nationalists and also several sources that discuss how these groups operate on the Internet, including Internet trolls. (Trolls are people who make hostile comments on other people’s web sites for the purpose of disrupting or taking over conversations.)<\/p>\n
Southern Poverty Law Center list of White Nationalist groups<\/a>\u00a0gives the names of important white nationalist groups and where they operate. The SPLC has also compiled\u00a0profiles of extremist individuals,\u00a0<\/a>a list of some of the most important players in America’s racist social movements.<\/p>\n What White Nationalism Gets Right About American History\u00a0<\/a> This New York Times article, written by a reformed white nationalist activist (you can get the SPLC profile of his father here<\/a>), sheds some light on the ideals of the many groups within the movement and how the President’s actions and words legitimize the worst of America.<\/p>\n Kathleen Blee interviewed women in White racist groups in the 1990s and published her book Inside Organized Racism: Women in the Hate Movement<\/em>\u00a0on them in 2002<\/a>. This New York Times article form 2002 summarizes her research<\/a>. The key take-aways are that the women were not particularly racist before they joined the groups, they learned racism in the groups, and they were even more anti-Jewish than anti-Black. She also found that most of the groups were small and violent.\u00a0A more recent popular magazine article <\/a>cites Blee’s work and includes interviews with some current White nationalist women and updated information about groups, including the way violence is part of group life, which is the topic of another news article citing Blee as explaining why racists kill.<\/a><\/p>\n Unite the Right, the violent white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, explained<\/a>\u00a0This informative article from Vox details the different organizations within the Alt-Right movement and those that attended the “unite the right” rallies in Charlottesville. The involvement of internet troll culture in the Alt-Right and the addition of traditional hate groups are all outlined.<\/p>\n White Supremacist Networks on the Internet<\/a> This academic article was written in 2000, but it is surprising how relative the subject matter is to this day. The piece describes the relationships between different hate groups (the KKK, Skinheads, Neo-Nazis, White Christian Identity organizations, etc.) and how they use their social networks and the internet to operate. The article is incredibly informative and useful, even 17 years later.<\/p>\n BURRIS, VAL, et al. \u201cWHITE SUPREMACIST NETWORKS ON THE INTERNET.\u201d\u00a0Sociological Focus<\/i>, vol. 33, no. 2, 2000, pp. 215\u2013235.\u00a0JSTOR<\/i>, www.jstor.org\/stable\/20832076.<\/p>\n Indiana white nationalist called ‘the next David Duke’ isn’t stopping with Charlottesville<\/a>\u00a0This local Indiana article showcases one of the more popular leaders among the alt-right and white nationalist movements, and the willingness to use organized violence by many members.<\/p>\n Neo-Nazis, white nationalists, and internet trolls: who’s who in the far right<\/a>\u00a0This article on the Guardian lists the relationship between different forms of white supremacy in the U.S. and the formation of newer, internet-oriented hate groups and internet trolls.<\/p>\n How the Trolls Stole Washington<\/a>\u00a0This NYT article dives more into the background of internet trolls and how they influenced the recent presidential election.<\/p>\n The Alt-Right\u2019s Newest Ploy? Trolling With False Symbols<\/a>\u00a0This interesting WIRED article describes strategies and goals used by alt-right internet trolls, and how the media’s response can make matters worse.<\/p>\n The events in Charlottesville August 11-12, 2017, attracted widespread attention to neo-Nazi White supremacist movements and provoked debates about responses to them. \u00a0There were extensive debates about whether the police had acted appropriately to prevent violence and about “antifa” (short for Anti-Fascist) who came prepared to do battle with the neo-Nazis. Here are just two of the many articles that address these issues.<\/p>\n