Challenging the Right Wing Backlash

A large collection of useful articles about the goals, strategies, and tactics of different sectors of the right; and how to organize to challenge the divisive agendas of these groups while promoting civil public debate rather than name-calling and demonization.

Book Information and Complete Table of Conents

Getting Up To Speed by Understanding the Political Right

• Behind the Culture War to Restore Traditional Values
  Chip Berlet & Margaret Quigley

Topical Articles

Theocratic Right

• Christian Reconstructionism
  Frederick Clarkson
• Promise Keepers
  Russ Bellant

Free Expression

• Defending Freedom of Expression
  David Mendoza
• Media Power & the Attack on Public Broadcasting
  David Barsamian

Homophobia

• Constructing Homophobia
  Jean Hardisty
• Hate on Tape
  Laura Flanders
• Civil Rights, "Special Rights," and Our Rights
  Suzanne B. Goldberg

Economic Backlash & Anti-Environmentalist

• The Dying American Dream
  Holly Sklar
• The Wise Use Movement
  William K. Burke
• Takings & Private Property Rights
  Tarso Ramos

Racism & Xenophobia

• The Roots of the Eugenics Movement
  Margaret Quigley
• The Anti-Immigration Backlash
  Doug Brugge
• White Supremacy in the 1990s
  Loretta Ross

The Far Right

• America Under the Gun
  Jonathan Mozzochi
• Guns, Ammo & Talk Radio
  Jeff Cohen & Norman Solomon
• What is Fascism?
  Matthew N. Lyons
• Encountering Holocaust Denial
  Lin Collette

Divisions:

• Divisions That Kill
  Suzanne Pharr
• Black Conservatives
  Deborah Toler

Strategies: Defending Democarcy and Diversity

• How to Fight the Right
  Center for Democratic Renewal
• Tips for Campus Organizers
  Center for Campus Organizing
• Soundbites Against Homophobia
  Robin Kane, NGLTF
• Ten Tips for Fighting Hate Groups of the Far Right
  Center for Democratic Renewal
• Common Sense Security
  Sheila O'Donnell
• A Call to Defend Democracy & Pluralism
  Blue Mountain Working Group
• Uniting to Defend the Four Freedoms
  Chip Berlet