Full Catalog
Welcome to the Political Research Associates online resource catalog. PRA
is an independent nonprofit research center that has been studying the political
Right since 1981. During that time, we have developed an extensive knowledge
and nuanced analysis of the Right. And every year, through our publications
and website, we share that expertise with thousands of activists, organizers,
journalists, policy makers, educators, students and others. In the following
pages, you’ll find materials that can help you better understand what’s behind
the current right-wing assault on democratic values and pluralism in our society—and
how you can respond.
This catalog represents a partial listing of materials available from PRA.
Because PRA is a clearinghouse for information on the Right and an archive,
thousands of primary and secondary source documents are housed in our research
library. Please contact us if you have particular information needs.
The Public Eye newsletter "…offers a clear and compelling analysis and
dedicated, accurate research on all aspects
of the Right. It is a great resource for all who
want reliable information without a lot of
jargon—a wonderful human rights resource."
— Loretta Ross, Center for Human Rights Education
"For those Americans who fear the rise of
the Right, The Public Eye is crucial reading."
— David Corn, Washington Editor, The Nation
"
Right-wing" is a label applied to a range of movements and groups, from economic
conservatives and Christian fundamentalists to the armed citizens’ militias
of the paramilitary far right. The Public Eye will help you navigate the complexities
of the Right and keep you abreast of important trends and developments. Issues
include an in-depth feature article, resource lists, book listings and updates
on right-wing activism.
Subscriptions (for three issues - we aim
to publish three issues per year)
Individuals & Non-Profit Organizations: . . PSINPO.
. . . . $29.00
Other Organizations: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .PSINST.
. . . . $39.00
Student/Retired/Low Income" . . . . . . . . .PSSRLI. . .
. . $19.00
Selected Back Issues (please contact us for a complete list or see it online) Affirming Racial Inequality: The Right’s Attack on Affirmative Action,
by Jean Hardisty. Vol. XIII, No. 4, Winter 1999.
PE033 . . . . $5.00
Takin’ It to the States: The Rise of Conservative State-Level Think
Tanks, by Frederick Clarkson. Vol. XIII,No. 2/3, Summer/Fall 1999.
PE032 . . . . $5.00
Clinton, Conspiracism, and the Continuing Culture War, by Chip
Berlet. Vol. XIII, No. 1, Spring 1999.
PE031. . . . . $5.00
Dances with Devils: How Apocalyptic and Millennialist Themes Influence
Right-Wing Scapegoating and Conspiracism, by Chip Berlet. Vol.
XII, No. 2/3, Fall 1998. Note: this issue is out of print but available
as an expanded report with footnotes.
REP013 . . . . $2.00
Libertarianism and Civil Society: The Romance of Free Market Capitalism,
by Jean Hardisty. Vol. XII, No. 1, Spring 1998.
PE029. . . . . $5.00
Teaching the Bible: The Right’s Attack on Public Schools, by
Barbara Miner. Vol. XI, No. 3/4, Fall/Winter 1997.
PE028. . . . . $5.00
What Now? Strategic Thinking About the Progressive Movement and the
Right, by Jean Hardisty. Vol. XI, No. 1, Spring 1997.
PE026. . . . . $5.00
Activist Resource Kits Defending Immigrant Rights
A resource guide for understanding and challenging the anti-immigrant
movement, 2002.
Since September 11th, immigrant scapegoating has increased, whether
in the form of hate crimes, racial profiling or federal legislation. Activists
need tools to challenge those who blame immigrants for social, economic,
environmental and security problems. Defending Immigrant Rights will
help you: Understand the anti-immigrant movement; Organize against
right-wing campaigns; Respond to anti-immigrant arguments and; Identify
important opponenets and allies.
This 150 page kit includes overview articles, descriptions of common
anti-immigrant arguments & suggested responses, sample anti-immigrant
literature, and annotated lists of anti- and pro-immigrant organizations.
ARKIR. . . . . Organizations & Individuals $15, low-income $10.
Call for bulk rates.
Defending Democracy
A resource guide for understanding and challenging the right-wing attacks
on democracy, 2001.
Based on PRA's twenty years experience monitoring the Rights, Defending
Democracy provides facts and analysis on the threat the Right poses
to democratic principles, diversity and equality. While the Right
claims that it represents a more fair and direct form of democracy,
this kit documents how it has closed economic opportunities, denied
equal protection of law and limited individual rights for many people. The
Right's campaigns have mobililzed a broad base while pursuing reforms
that disproportionately benefit a small constituency. This 136 page
kit includes: Overview of the Right, Organizing Advice and Resources.
ARKDD. . . . . Organizations & Individuals $15, low-income $10.
Call for bulk rates.
Defending Reproductive Rights
A resource guide for understanding and challenging the intense right-wing
attack on reproductive rights, 2000.
Produced in consultation with several reproductive rights activists,
Defending Reproductive Rights offers a comprehensive look at the attack
on reproductive freedoms by the US political Right. By providing a wealth
of facts, analyses, and resources Defending Reproductive Rights helps
activists, organizers, health care providers, and others protect reproductive
rights.
This resource helps you understand many aspects of the Right's attack
on reproductive freedoms, including:
Topics include Barriers to Reproductive Services; Abortion; Race, Poverty
and Reproductive Rights; Reproductive Abuses and Population Control.
ARKRR. . . . . Organizations & Individuals $15, low-income $10.
Call for bulk rates.
Defending Public Education
A resource guide for understanding and challenging the intense right-wing
attack on public education, 1999.
With public education emerging as a major issue in the 2000 political
campaigns, public school advocates have a new tool to help them challenge
conservative "reforms." Defending Public Education is an invaluable resource
containing in-depth critiques of conservative positions on five key issues—vouchers,
charter schools, public school privatization, bilingual education, and
parental rights—and a progressive response.
ARKED. . . . . Organizations & Individuals $15, low-income $10.
Call for bulk rates.
Books Mobilizing Resentment:
Conservative Resurgence from the John Birch Society to the Promise
Keepers,
by Jean Hardisty. Beacon Press, 1999.
Chronicles the recent history of the Right and details the formation of right-wing
movements in opposition to the struggle for expansion of rights for women,
people of color and lesbians and gays. Interspersed throughout her analysis
are Jean Hardisty’s own experiences spanning three decades as an activist and
observer of the Right. Foreword by Wilma Mankiller, former Principal Chief
of the Cherokee Nation.
"A thoughtful and provocative look at the
right wing in the US, replacing simple
condemnation with sober analysis."
– Howard Zinn, author of A People’s History of the United States
BK04P . . . . . $15.00 - paperback edition
BK04H . . . . . $20.00 - hardcover edition
Right-Wing Populism in America:
Too Close for Comfort,
by Chip Berlet & Matthew N. Lyons. Guilford Press, 2000.
This important volume offers an in–depth look at the historical roots and
current landscape of right–wing populism in the United States. Illuminated
is the potent combination of anti–elitist rhetoric, conspiracy theories, and
ethnic scapegoating that has fueled many political movements from the colonial
period to the present day. The book examines the Jacksonians, the Ku Klux Klan,
and a host of Cold War nationalist cliques, and relates them to the evolution
of contemporary electoral campaigns of Patrick Buchanan, the militancy of the
Posse Comitatus and the Christian Identity movement, and an array of millennial
sects.
BK05P. . . . . . $18.00 . paperback edition
Eyes Right! Challenging the Right Wing Backlash, edited by Chip Berlet.
South End Press, 1995. Co-published with PRA.
An excellent primer and handbook, this anthology maps the interlocking issues
and actors of the resurgent Right. The selected articles explore the Right’s
central themes of theocracy, racism, patriarchy, homophobia, and the defense
of corporate power. Contributors include Russ Bellant, Chip Berlet, Frederick
Clarkson, Sara Diamond, Laura Flanders, Liz Galst, Jean Hardisty, June Jordan,
Scot Nakagawa, Suzanne Pharr, Tarso Ramos, Adolph Reed, Loretta Ross, Holly
Sklar, Barbara Smith, and Deborah Toler, among others.
BK03P. . . . . . $8.00
The Coors Connection: How Coors Family Philanthropy Undermines Democratic
Pluralism, by Russ Bellant. Boston, MA: South End Press, 1991. Co-published
with PRA.
Examines the influential but little-known role of the Coors beer family in
US politics. Through their philanthropic donations, Joseph Coors and other
family members have served as a cornerstone of the New Right, bankrolling conservative
think tanks, union-busting, anti-gay campaigns, overseas covert operations
and more.
[Not Currently Available]
Old Nazis, the New Right, and the Republican Party, by Russ Bellant.
Boston, MA: South End Press, 1991. Co-published with PRA.
A provocative exposé of domestic fascist networks, which include Nazi
collaborators, within the Republican Party. These networks were especially
prominent during the Reagan Administration.
BK01P. . . . . . $9.00
Topical Reports
The Pioneer Institute: Privatizing the Common Wealth, by Paul
Dunphy with Mark Umi Perkins, 2002.
Examines how the libertarian free-market ideas advocated by the Pioneer Institute,
have taken hold in Massachusetts, a traditionally Democratic stronghold. The
report details the Institute’s work in promoting privatization in a host of
areas including mental health care, education, and charter schools. It
also traces the movements of former Pioneer staff members through state government
in the Weld, Cellucci and Swift administrations.
REP017 . . . . . . $10.00
Calculated Compassion: How the Ex-Gay Movement Serves the Right’s Attack
on Democracy, by Surina Khan. Co-published by PRA, the Policy Institute
of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, and Equal Partners in Faith,
1998.
An in-depth study of how promotion of the ex-gay movement and its claims of "cure" for
lesbians and gay men provide political cover for a new phase of the Christian
Right’s ongoing anti-gay campaign. A companion Information Packet is available
(see under Information Packets).
REP011. . . . . $6.00
Decades of Distortion: The Right’s 30-Year Assault on Welfare, by Lucy
Williams, 1997.
Documents how the Right achieved welfare "reform" by transforming public concern
about poverty into concern about the behavior of the poor through racist stereotyping,
misrepresentation of statistics, and media manipulation.
REP014. . . . . $10.00 (photocopy only)
Dances with Devils: How Apocalyptic and Millennialist Themes Influence
Right-Wing Scapegoating and Conspiracism, by Chip Berlet. An expanded
report originally published in the Public Eye Vol. XII, No. 2/3, Fall 1998.
REP013. . . .$2.00
Special Studies
[This section currently being revised]
Information Packets Challenging the Ex-Gay Movement: An Information Packet. Co-published
by PRA, the Policy Institute of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, and
Equal Partners in Faith, 1998.
Provides analysis of the ex-gay movement’s theology and links with the Christian
Right, fact sheets on leading ex-gay organizations, listings of groups opposed
to the movement, organizing tips, article reprints, and resource lists. A companion
to the Calculated Compassion report.
REP015. . . . . $6.00
Challenging the Promise Keepers: An Organizer’s Information Packet.
Co-published by PRA, Equal Partners in Faith, and the Institute for Democracy
Studies, 1997 (revised & updated March 2000).
Includes analysis of the theology informing this right-wing Christian men’s
movement, the anti-democratic and authoritarian views of its leaders, and their
links to the Christian Right, plus reprints of selected articles and resource
lists.
REP012. . . . . $10.00
Bibliographies & Glossaries
These are available
online
Introductory Bibliography for Studying the US Political Right
BIB001. . . . . $2.00
General Bibliography for Studying the US Political Right
BIB002. . . . . $2.00
Homophobia, the Religious Right and the Ex-Gay Movement
BIB006. . . . . $2.00
Selected Right-Wing Conspiracist, Populist and Racist Texts
1790-1989
BIB008. . . . . $2.00
Selections from the Apocalyptic Genre 1970-1999
BIB010. . . . . $2.00
Apocalypticism and Millennialism: Key Words and Concepts
BIB012. . . . . $2.00
Post WWII Neofascism in Europe: Historic Background, Contemporary Manifestation,
and Resurgent Period 1982-1992
BIB011. . . . . $2.00
Reading List on Intelligence Agencies and Political Repression
BIB016. . . . . $2.00
Selected Bibliography on Apocalyptic Millennialism
BIB023. . . . . $2.00
Directories Groups Promoting Democratic Rights, Civil Liberties, Social Justice, Equality & Pluralism:
A Selected List with Annotations, Addresses & Resources. Available
Online.
A regularly updated listing of key national organizations involved in promoting
democracy and diversity.
DIR1. . . . . $ 3.00
Right-Wing Groups: A Selected List with Annotations: Including Conservative,
Ultra-conservative, Religious Right, Secular Right, Traditionalist, Moralist,
and Far Right. Available Online.
A who’s who of the opposition with brief organizational profiles and contact
information.
DIR2. . . . . $ 4.00
Article Reprints "Fearful Zealots: A Combustible Mixture," by Chip Berlet, The Boston Globe,
August 13, 1999. A look at the connection between far-right violence and right-wing
populism.
RELRT04. . . . . $1.00
"Apocalypse Soon," by Chip Berlet, The Boston Globe, July 19, 1998.
RELRT09. . . . . $ 1.00
"New Faith: Promise Keepers Come to Worcester," by Surina Khan, The Worcester
Phoenix, July 25, 1997.
RELRT054. . . . . $ 1.00
"Homosexual Healing," by Surina Khan, Boston Magazine, July 1998.
An overview of the ex-gay movement and its ties to the Christian Right. (Included
in Challenging the Ex-Gay Movement: An Information Packet).
HOM02. . . . . $ 1.00
"Militia Nation," by Chip Berlet and Matthew N. Lyons, The Progressive,
June 1995.
POP01. . . . . $ 1.50
"The Right Rides High," by Chip Berlet, The Progressive, October 1994.
POP02. . . . . $ 1.50
"The Right Wing Education Agenda," by Surina Khan, Sojourner: The Women’s
Forum, November, 1996. (Included in the Activist Resource Kit—Public
Education Module). RTGN011. . . . . $ 1.00
"Scapegoating Immigrants," by Surina Khan, Sojourner, September, 1996.
XEN04. . . . . $ 1.00
Additional
Resources and Back List
Please Note: Many of these items are dated, or appear in updated format on
the <publiceye.org> web
pages. They are listed here for persons who require an original printed document
for citation or scholarly research.
Packets
on Homophobia
PRA has 11 packets of now outdated but historically useful primary source
materials—many related to the 1992 Colorado Amendment Two case—under the title
Constructing Homophobia: How the Right Wing Defines Lesbians, Gay Men, and
Bisexuals as a Threat to Civilization. Please contact us for details.
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