An Antifascist Reading List

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22 participants (30 books)

Overview

We can mourn, or we can resist. This list focuses on American fascism and is based on the antifascist reading lists from Scuppernong Books, Wade Overly at UNC Greensboro, and Timothy Snyder in “On Tyranny” with other additions as appropriate. 

Challenge Books

The Third Reconstruction: How a Moral Movement Is Overcoming the Politics of Division and Fear by Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, William J. Barber II

The Third Reconstruction: How a Moral Movement Is Overcoming the Politics of Division and Fear

Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, William J. Barber II

The Collaboration: Hollywood's Pact with Hitler by Ben Urwand

The Collaboration: Hollywood's Pact with Hitler

Ben Urwand

Alt-America: The Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of Trump by David Neiwert

Alt-America: The Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of Trump

David Neiwert

Ku-Klux: The Birth of the Klan During Reconstruction by Elaine Frantz Parsons

Ku-Klux: The Birth of the Klan During Reconstruction

Elaine Frantz Parsons

How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them by Jason Stanley

How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them

Jason Stanley

The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition by Linda Gordon

The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition

Linda Gordon

Religion and the Racist Right: The Origins of the Christian Identity Movement by Michael Barkun

Religion and the Racist Right: The Origins of the Christian Identity Movement

Michael Barkun

The Coming of the American Behemoth: The Origins of Fascism in the United States, 1920 -1940 by Michael Joseph Roberto

The Coming of the American Behemoth: The Origins of Fascism in the United States, 1920 -1940

Michael Joseph Roberto

The Anatomy of Fascism by Robert O. Paxton

The Anatomy of Fascism

Robert O. Paxton

For Race And Nation: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party by William H. Schmaltz

For Race And Nation: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party

William H. Schmaltz

Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy by Talia Lavin

Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy

Talia Lavin

Hitler's American Friends: The Third Reich's Supporters in the United States by Bradley W. Hart

Hitler's American Friends: The Third Reich's Supporters in the United States

Bradley W. Hart