Nation and Race

Following a preface and an introduction, the book includes 10 essays from authors from several disciplines. The first overviews far-right political developments. The essays included cover several subjects of the far-right subculture, including their internet presences, culture, and conspiracy theories common to the movement.^[1][2][3] The final chapter has Tore Bjørgo overview factors which lead to people leaving racist groups.^[4]

The book was edited by academics Jeffrey Kaplan and Tore Bjørgo.^[5] It collects the papers of an international conference funded by the Harry F. Guggenheim foundation, held in New Orleans, from December 8 to 11, 1995.^[6][5] It was published by Northeastern University Press in 1998 as a 273-page paperback and hardcover.^[5][1]

Multiple reviewers praised the first essay as particularly well written.^[2][3][7] Jerome L. Himmelstein, writing for Qualitative Sociology, said it presented "an intriguing, important argument",^[6] while Martin Durham noted it as wide-ranging.^[4] A reviewer called the book "new and important" and recommended it, but said it had some content that overlapped with earlier books.^[7] Cas Mudde for Political Studies found the title misleading, with it seeming to focus less on the "developing Euro-American racist subculture" and more "a weird and sinister 'otherworld' of neo-Nazis, skinheads and Satanists, whose common denominator is not only 'Nation and Race', but also the fact that they are all part of 'the loony fringe'".^[1] Mudde said that though this seemed fascinating, the implicit argument by the authors that this then-fringe milieu would influence global events, seemed very unlikely.^[1]