Anyone interested in this blog’s concern with discrimination and civil rights will want to march right over to amazon.com, or your neighborhood book store, and pick up a copy Carol Swain’s new book, The New White Nationalism in America (Cambridge Univ. Press).
The book is fascinating, and very well done, but even if it weren’t her biography is compelling enough to command interest. This summary is from the intro to an interview that recently ran in The Washington Times:
Born in 1954 in Bedford County, Va., Ms. Swain was one of 12 children. She dropped out of school in eighth grade and married at 16. She later earned her GED and received a Ph.D from the University of North Carolina in 1989. She became a professor at Princeton University in 1990 and gained tenure in 1994. In 2000, she joined the faculty of Vanderbilt Law School.
Other interesting discussions of or interviews with Swain can be found here (requires subscription), here, and here.
YOu’ve got the mention the other interesting thing about Prof. Swain–she’s African American. And really unpopular with all sorts of people. I wonder what Harry Belafonte would say aobut her?
You’re right; I didn’t mention her race. I’m not sure I forgot, or whether it was a Freudian slip, or whether I was so impressed with her book — and its anti-racialist arguments — that it just didn’t seem necessary to mention it. Anyway, let me re-encourage readers to take a look at the links I provided, and the book.
[…] have pointed with enthusiasm to the work of Carol Swain several times before, such as here and here. Now it’s time to do so again, for her comments in a long Nashville Tennessean article […]