Recommended Reading

Anti-Racism and Anti-Fascism:

Bray, Mark. Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook

Kendi, Ibram X. How to Be an Antiracist

Solomon, Akiba, and Kenrya Rankin. How We Fight White Supremacy: A Field Guide to Black Resistance

Wise, Tim. White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son

Fascism and Nazism:

Arendt, Hannah. The Origins of Totalitarianism

Levitsky, Steven. How Democracies Die

Paxton, Robert O. The Anatomy of Fascism

Ullrich, Volker. Hitler: Ascent, 1889-1939

The Holocaust and Holocaust Denial:

Black, Edwin. IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance between Nazi Germany and America’s Most Powerful Corporation

Lipstadt, Deborah E. Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory

Shermer, Michael, Alex Grobman, and Arthur Hertzberg. Denying History: Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened and Why Do They Say It?

Snyder, Timothy. Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning

Racism and White Supremacy:

Baptist, Edward E. The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism

Kendi, Ibram X. Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

Saini, Angela. Superior: The Return of Race Science

Tucker, William H. The Funding of Scientific Racism: Wickliffe Draper and the Pioneer Fund

White Nationalism, Neo-Nazism, and the Far-Right:

Belew, Kathleen. Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America

Dyck, Kirsten. Reichsrock: The International Web of White-Power and Neo-Nazi Hate Music

Fekete, Elizabeth. Europe’s Fault Lines: Racism and the Rise of the Right

Goodrick-Clarke, Nicholas. Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism, and the Politics of Identity

Kennard, Matt. Irregular Army: How the US Military Recruited Neo-Nazis, Gang Members, and Criminals to Fight the War on Terror

Langer, Elinor. A Hundred Little Hitlers: The Death of a Black Man, the Trial of a White Racist, and the Rise of the Neo-Nazi Movement in America

Leamer, Laurence. The Lynching: The Epic Courtroom Battle That Brought Down the Klan

Merlan, Anna. Republic of Lies: American Conspiracy Theorists and Their Surprising Rise to Power

Neiwart, David. Alt-America: The Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of Trump

Neiwart, David. And Hell Followed With Her: Crossing the Dark Side of the American Border

Perlstein, Rick. Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus

Perlstein, Rick. Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America

Perlstein, Rick. The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan

Seierstad, Åsne. One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway

Spencer, Hawes. Summer of Hate: Charlottesville, USA

Tenold, Vegas. Everything You Love Will Burn: Inside the Rebirth of White Nationalism in America

Trilling, Daniel. Bloody Nasty People: The Rise of Britain’s Far Right

Wendling, Mike. Alt-Right: From 4Chan to the White House

Wexler, Stuart. America’s Secret Jihad: The Hidden History of Religious Terrorism in the United States

Zeskind, Leonard. Blood and Politics: The History of the White Nationalist Movement from the Margins to the Mainstream

Anti-Feminism and Misogyny:

Faludi, Susan. Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women

Saini, Angela. Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong — and the New Research That’s Rewriting the Story