Eyes Right!: Challenging the Right Wing Backlash

Bys: Matthew N. Lyons, Liz Galst, Loretta Ross, et al.

Book Overview

The urgent essays in "Eyes Right " show how to counter right-wing corporate, religious and political agendas, and defend democracy and diversity. With chapters covering attacks on immigrants, gay men... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0896085236
• ISBN13: 9780896085237
• Release Date: July 1999
• Publisher: South End Press
• Length: 397 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.9" x 5.4"

Customer Reviews

Scary as Proverbial Hell

In an age where most people automatically believe the snippets and pieces they are handed by corporate media (which in the US is the Right) as the whole and absolute truth, this book is a must read and should be on the reading list of every American. The in-depth discussions of the various far right units/groups are invaluable. What you don't know CAN hurt you and WILL if given half a chance. If knowing is half the battle, then this book is your ammo.

Par Excellence

This well indexed book is a window to understand the relevance of the Right Wing Groups, The Right Wing "Extremist" Ideology, The Threat of the Right Wing on America; be it the threat on the Pillars of Liberty, Freedom or perhaps the apparent threat of the right wing on the constitution. But most importantly (dangers of) disguising of the old Right as New Right. The most likable thing in this book is that it is based on well researched works and intellectually it is very consummable material ! . Althought this book does not contain any Rhetoric whatsoever, yet It will occur to the reader that the Right Wing Extremism is undiminishing threat (just like Virus strain that changes with environments) = As the old right wants to be perceived as New Right.The Book is (to me) a reference of the Dangers of the Right Wing's Dogmatic, Anti-Democratic Ideology -- It doesn't take long to realize and accept that The Right Wing Extremist are The Domestic Enemy #1 that USA may have. Some the chapters go to such details to quite eloborate that the core and the base of many right wing groups in USA is very much in contradiction to the traditions, principles of liberty and freedom that are the very basis of succes of this GREAT Nation. Read it and read into the lines --- !

Scholars, Students, Activists... Prepare to be challenged!

Eyes Right is an authoratative anthology of important research and writing about the growth of the right-wing in the United States. This work is epecially useful since it is well organized and well indexed. Contributors include such established progressive scholars as Russ Bellant, Frederick Clarkson, and Sara Diamond, who while not exactly household names, are well regarded among the politically literate. Each them have also published important books that ought to be on the reading list of anyone who starts out with this useful collection.