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Damon T. Berry
Blood and Faith: Christianity in American White Nationalism
Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 2017

When I was in graduate school, one of my professors likened grading undergraduate exams to fever dreams, in which the events of the day — or, in his case, a whole semester’s worth of lectures — come back in garbled form. I have had the same experience reading about my ideas in the mainstream media.  (more…)

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Ben Klassen (1918 – 1993)

Part 2 of 2. Part 1 here.

Prophet of RaHoWa

Frustrated by the bumbling of the Republican Party, and tired of Christian white advocates distracted by Genesis 12:3’s insistence that “God” would “bless” those who supported Jews and “curse” those that did not, Klassen decided to create his own religion. What he came up with was a non-deist faith whose purpose was to advance the white race. (more…)

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Part 1 of 2. Part 2 here.

Ben Klassen
Against the Evil Tide: An Autobiography
Creativity Book Publisher, 1991

Ben Klassen
Trials, Tribulations, and Triumphs: A History of the Church of the Creator During Its 10 Year Domicile in the State of North Carolina, Coordinated with Biographical Details During the Same Period
Church of the Creator, 1993

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DeWest Hooker

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A colorful yet enigmatic figure in the postwar American racialist movement was the well-to-do anti-Jewish businessman DeWest “West” Hooker (1918–1999). His portrait emerges primarily through self-descriptions he provided to leading white activists (the most notable of whom was George Lincoln Rockwell) over a period of forty years. (more…)