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White American Youth: My Descent Into America's Most Violent Hate Movement -- And How I Got Out
Contributor(s): Picciolini, Christian (Author)

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ISBN: 0316522902     ISBN-13: 9780316522908
Publisher: Hachette Books
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: December 2017
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BISAC Categories:
- True Crime | Organized Crime
- Biography & Autobiography | Criminals & Outlaws
- Biography & Autobiography | Social Activists
Dewey: B
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.4" W x 8.2" L (0.55 lbs) 304 pages
Features: Illustrated, Price on Product
 
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Publisher Description:
As featured on Fresh Air and the TED stage, a stunning look inside the world of violent hate groups by a onetime white supremacist leader who, shaken by a personal tragedy, abandoned his destructive life to become an anti-hate activist.

Raw, inspiring, and heartbreakingly candid, White American Youth explores why so many young people lose themselves in a culture of hatred and violence and how the criminal networks they forge terrorize and divide our nation. The story begins when Picciolini found himself stumbling through high school, struggling to find a community among other fans of punk rock music. There, he was recruited by a notorious white power skinhead leader and encouraged to fight with the movement to protect the white race from extinction. Soon, he had become an expert in racist philosophies, a terror who roamed the neighborhood, quick to throw fists. When his mentor was sent to prison, sixteen-year-old Picciolini took over the man's role as the leader of an infamous neo-Nazi skinhead group.

Seduced by the power he accrued through intimidation, and swept up in the rhetoric he had adopted, Picciolini worked to grow an army of extremists. He used music as a recruitment tool, launching his own propaganda band that performed at white power rallies around the world. But slowly, as he started a family of his own and a job that for the first time brought him face to face with people from all walks of life, he began to recognize the cracks in his hateful ideology. Then a shocking loss at the hands of racial violence changed his life forever, and Picciolini realized too late the full extent of the harm he'd caused.

Simultaneously horrifying and redemptive (AlterNet), White American Youth examines how radicalism and racism can conquer a person's way of life and how we can work together to stop those ideologies from tearing our world apart.

*An earlier edition of this book was published as Romantic Violence

 
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