It Can Happen Here White Power and the Rising Threat of Genocide in the US

The understanding Hinton provides to events marking US history is objective, nuanced and noble, and teaches us readers that in seeking to define and judge phenomena and people intelligently, accurately and critically, these must necessarily be placed in the continuum of time and space." (LSE Review of Books) "By offering a thorough analysis of Trump's speeches and alt-right moral economies, It Can Happen Here links America's history of white supremacy and contemporary struggles over race to perceived threats to America's future. Hinton clears a new path for critical engagement through the face of public anthropology. Among the best critically engaged writing of our time. A must read!" - Kamari Maxine Clarke, University of California Los Angeles "In chilling detail, It Can Happen Here traces particular racialized patterns that serve as warning and prompt for further examination of the deepest conditions that make genocide possible." - Alisse Waterston, author of Light in Dark Times: The Human Search for Meaning "With an anthropologist's eye, Cambodia expert Alexander Laban Hinton analyzes the US white power scene and discerns disturbing parallels with the Khmer Rouge paranoia he has studied so closely. It is the long history of genocide and slavery in this country that provides the historically meaningful framework, he argues, rather than interwar European fascism. Analytically hard-hitting, Hinton's book is a model of critical reflection." - A. Dirk Moses, author of The Problems of Genocide: Permanent Security and the Language of Transgression "Could white power advocates' dreams of racial genocide happen here? Hinton takes on that chilling question by looking at how people think about racial violence, from white supremacists at Charlottesville, to those charged with atrocities in the Cambodian genocide and students in his college classroom. The result is an account that is engaging, informative, and a model of the difficult dialogues in our schools and communities that are needed to begin healing our racially fractured society." - Kathleen Blee, author of Understanding Racist Activism: Theory, Methods, and Research "For those who have been grappling with ways to bring discussions surrounding authoritarianism in the United States, white supremacist violence, and Donald Trump into college and high school classrooms, this book offers a useful template to follow." (Ethnic & Racial Studies)