A startling look at the unexpected places where violent hate groups recruit young peopleHate crimes. Misinformation and conspiracy theories. Foiled white-supremacist plots. The signs of growing far-right extremism are all around us, and communities across America and around the globe are struggling to understand how so many people are being radicalized and why they are increasingly attracted to violent movements. Hate in the Homeland shows how tomorrow's far-right nationalists are being recruited in surprising places, from college campuses and mixed martial arts gyms to clothing stores, online gaming chat rooms, and YouTube cooking channels.Instead of focusing on the how and why of far-right radicalization, Cynthia Miller-Idriss seeks answers in the physical and virtual spaces where hate is cultivated. Where does the far right do its recruiting? When do young people encounter extremist messaging in their everyday lives? Miller-Idriss shows how far-right groups are swelling their ranks and developing their cultural, intellectual, and financial capacities in a variety of mainstream settings. She demonstrates how young people on the margins of our communities are targeted in these settings, and how the path to radicalization is a nuanced process of moving in and out of far-right scenes throughout adolescence and adulthood.Hate in the Homeland is essential for understanding the tactics and underlying ideas of modern far-right extremism. This eye-opening book takes readers into the mainstream places and spaces where today's far right is engaging and ensnaring young people, and reveals innovative strategies we can use to combat extremist radicalization.

• Cover
• Contents
• Preface to the Paperback Edition
• Preface and Acknowledgements
• Abbreviations
• Introduction: The Where and When of Radicalization
  • What Is the Far Right?
  • Contested Labels
  • Blurriness and Contestation across the Far-Right Spectrum
  • How Big Is the Threat?
  • Youth Spaces, Youth Places
  • Overview of the Book
• Chapter 1. Space, Place, and the Power of Homelands
  • Space and Place
  • Homelands and Heartlands
  • The Fantasy of a White Ethno-state
  • National Liberated Zones
  • Space, Place, and Extremist Radicalization
• Chapter 2. Mainstreaming the Message
  • Extreme Ideas in Political Speech
  • Valorizing the Pure People
  • Embedding Anti-immigrant Messages in Antiglobalization Frames
  • Immigration as Existential Threat: Normalizing the Rhetoric of White Genocide
  • Disinformation and Conspiracy Theories
  • From Pizzagate to the Migrant Caravan: Conspiracy Theories and the Far Right
  • Weaponizing Youth Culture: Mainstreamed Aesthetics
  • Cleaning Up Extreme Ideas
  • Weaponizing Youth Culture: Humor and New Communication Styles
  • Integrated Mainstreaming
• Chapter 3. Selling Extremism: Food, Fashion, and Far-Right Markets
  • Edible Extremism: Prepping in the Kitchen, Prepping for the End Times
  • Wearable Hate: Extremist Clothing
  • Packaging Extremist Messaging
  • Broadening the Base: Recruitment to the Far Right
  • Embodying Extremism: How Commercial Markets and Products Can Radicalize
  • Mobilization: Access and Action
  • Funding and Supporting Extremism
  • To Ban or Not to Ban
• Chapter 4. Defending the Homeland: Fight Clubs and the Mixed Martial Arts
  • Mixed Martial Arts as Recruitment and Regulation
  • Fight Like a Man: Violent Masculinities and Radicalization
  • Off the Laptop, into the Boxing Ring: MMA’s Physical Spaces
  • Breaking Up the Fight
• Chapter 5. Grooming and Recruiting: Cultivating Intellectual Leadership
  • Hate Comes to Campus
  • Free Speech and Far-Right Provocateurs
  • Far-Right Paper Fliers and Campus Recruiting
  • Hate Incidents Directed at Students and Scholars
  • “Cultural Marxism” and Attacks on Knowledge
  • Appropriation of Knowledge
  • Knowledge for and by the Far Right
  • The Return of Race Science
  • Responses to Rising Hate in Higher Education
• Chapter 6. Weaponizing Online Spaces
  • Going Online: How the Internet Fuels Far-Right Extremism
  • Exposure and Amplification
  • Two Clicks from Extremism: Algorithmic Radicalization
  • Weaponizing Humor: Memes and Emoji
  • Building Resources, Training, and Global Networks
  • Online Spaces as a Battleground
  • Impact and Interventions in Online Spaces
• Conclusion: Whose Homeland? Inoculating against Hate
  • What New Spaces and Places Mean for the Growth of Far-Right Extremism
  • How to Reach Youth in Particular Spaces and Places
  • Policy Solutions
  • Lessons from Elsewhere
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index
• Discussion Questions and Further Resources