ABSTRACT

The New White Nationalism in America: Its Challenge to Integration demonstrates that Swain continues to be a proponent for change. Carol M. Swain considers this potential growth of resentful whites to be highly problematic to improving the Black condition and to the stability of race relations in America. The rather popular mainstream notion that affirmative action causes blacks to feel inferior ignore that long, colorful history of racial discrimination in America. White America's presumption of black inferiority in the last few centuries is apparent and viciously effective in its circular reasoning. The main argument is that there is a new and dangerously influential group in America, a new generation of right-wing activists and thinkers on the political scene. These activists are the foot soldiers of what some call the white nationalist movement. White nationalism, on the other hand, represents a body of thought emphasizing among other things that whites distance themselves from non-whites.