num_pages: 291
description: From a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter the powerful story of how a prominent white supremacist changed his heart and mind. This is a book to help us understand the American moment and to help us better understand one another.Derek Black grew up at the epicenter of white nationalism. His father founded Stormfront the largest racist community on the Internet. His godfather David Duke was a KKK Grand Wizard. By the time Derek turned nineteen he had become an elected politician with his own daily radio showalready regarded as the the leading light of the burgeoning white nationalist movement. We can infiltrate Derek once told a crowd of white nationalists. We can take the country back.Then he went to college. At New College of Florida he continued to broadcast his radio show in secret each morning living a double life until a classmate uncovered his identity and sent an email to the entire school. Derek Black ... white supremacist radio host ... New College student??? The ensuing uproar overtook one of the most liberal colleges in the country. Some students protested Derek's presence on campus forcing him to reconcile for the first time with the ugliness of his beliefs. Other students found the courage to reach out to him including an Orthodox Jew who invited Derek to attend weekly Shabbat dinners. It was because of those dinnersand the wide-ranging relationships formed at that tablethat Derek started to question the science history and prejudices behind his worldview. As white nationalism infiltrated the political mainstream Derek decided to confront the damage he had done.Rising Out of Hatred tells the story of how white-supremacist ideas migrated from the far-right fringe to the White House through the intensely personal saga of one man who eventually disavowed everything he was taught to believe at tremendous personal cost. With great empathy and narrative verve Eli Saslow asks what Derek Black's story can tell us about America's increasingly divided nature.
language: English
title: Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist
publisher: Anchor