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2 - Reno Wolfe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 January 2010

Carol M. Swain
Affiliation:
Vanderbilt University, Tennessee
Russ Nieli
Affiliation:
Princeton University, New Jersey
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If Jared Taylor's American Renaissance group represents a distinctly highbrow style of white rights advocacy and white protest, Reno Wolfe's National Association for the Advancement of White People is a much more middlebrow affair. Founded in January, 1998, Wolfe's NAAWP, National, Inc., is an Internet-centered protest organization that focuses on opposition to race-based affirmative action programs throughout American society. Like Taylor's group, Wolfe's organization believes that white people in America have distinct individual and group interests that need to be protected through vigorous advocacy, but the appeal of his organization is much broader and more grass roots oriented than Taylor's. At the heart of the NAAWP's white rights activism is its electronic news commentary, which delivers to the computer screens of all subscribers regular information and editorial comment on a variety of race-related topics. The NAAWP routinely denounces what it sees as racial double standards in the areas of education, employment, government service provision, and the reporting of interracial crime. White people in America, Wolfe charges, have often been accorded a subordinate status to blacks and members of other minorities in these areas, as the minorities, in effect, have been granted special rights and privileges rather than equal treatment. In the following interview Wolfe goes out of his way to disassociate his own organization from an earlier organization by the same name founded in the early 1980s by ex–Ku Klux Klansman David Duke.

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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2003

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  • Reno Wolfe
  • Edited by Carol M. Swain, Vanderbilt University, Tennessee, Russ Nieli, Princeton University, New Jersey
  • Book: Contemporary Voices of White Nationalism in America
  • Online publication: 19 January 2010
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511610080.004
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  • Reno Wolfe
  • Edited by Carol M. Swain, Vanderbilt University, Tennessee, Russ Nieli, Princeton University, New Jersey
  • Book: Contemporary Voices of White Nationalism in America
  • Online publication: 19 January 2010
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511610080.004
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  • Reno Wolfe
  • Edited by Carol M. Swain, Vanderbilt University, Tennessee, Russ Nieli, Princeton University, New Jersey
  • Book: Contemporary Voices of White Nationalism in America
  • Online publication: 19 January 2010
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511610080.004
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