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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460217603321

Autore

Barrett Stanley R.

Titolo

Is God a racist? : the right wing in Canada / / Stanley R. Barrett

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, Ontario ; ; Buffalo, New York ; ; London, England : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1987

©1987

ISBN

1-4426-5972-6

1-4426-5514-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (392 p.)

Collana

Heritage

Disciplina

305.800971

Soggetti

Racism - Canada

Right and left (Political science)

Electronic books.

Canada Race relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- PART ONE. INTRODUCTION TO THE RIGHT WING -- PART TWO. THE RADICAL RIGHT -- PART THREE. THE FRINGE RIGHT -- PART FOUR. EXPLANATIONS AND PUZZLES -- APPENDIX. List of Organizations Since the Second World War -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

‘God is a racist’—so goes a statement published in the literature of the Western Guard, a white-supremacist, anti-semitic group in Toronto. It is one of a number of racist organizations that have sprung up in Canada since the Second World War. Stanley Barrett points out in this disquieting study that although many of the principles of such organizations are offensive to the vast majority of Canadians, they represent a growing part of a broader political phenomenon that has recently surfaced in numerous nations.In examining the rise of right wing extremism in Canada, a nation with a traditional reputation for tolerance, Barrett considers a wide range of political convictions, from confessed fascists to essentially ordinary, law-abiding, but highly conservative individuals who are deeply concerned about the future of Western Christian civilization.Barrett’s study, grounded in a scientific



tradition that has regularly exposed racial myths, is guided by humanist values that celebrate individual worth. It sheds new light on a growing phenomenon that threatens those values.