Leonard Zeskind's vigilance over the past three decades has produced a
comprehensive picture of the shifting tides of the U.S. white-supremacy
movement and anti-Semitism movements in America and abroad. With the
U.S. Latino population expected to triple by 2050, many white-power
groups now recruit members based on fears of a white minority.
Zeskind's latest book,
Blood and Politics: The History of the
White Nationalist Movement From the Margins to the Mainstream,
documents the political strategies of right-wing racist groups and the
ways in which those strategies are at fundamental loggerheads. At 6:30
p.m., Zeskind, a former John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
fellow, reads from his book at the Plaza Branch of the Kansas City
Public Library (4801 Main). For reservations, call 816-701-3407 or see
kclibrary.org.
Wed., May 27, 6 p.m., 2009
