Международная научная конференция

«Ксенофобия и экстремизм: глобальные вызовы и региональные тренды»

Mark Potok

Mark Potok, Senior Fellow at the Center for the Analysis of the Radical Right and former Senior official of the Southern Poverty Law Center (USA)

 

John Tanton’s Nativist Network in the United States

 

As the radical right continues to grow in size and political power around the world, nativism and anti-immigrant hate is on the rise almost everywhere. In the United States, however, the anti-immigrant movement is not simply an organic response to the demographic and other socioeconomic changes. The American nativist movement is largely the handiwork of one man, the late John Tanton, who over the course of some 40 years built a network of organizations that form the backbone of the American nativist movement. Although these groups are perceived as in the political mainstream — they have collectively testified to Congress more than 130 times, and they have successfully stopped bipartisan immigration reform at least two times in the last 15 years — they are in fact plainly racist organizations. Mark Potok, who has studied the Tanton network over the course of some 20 years, will outline the role of the Tanton network in American politics, and detail the extremism that lies at the heart of these organizations.

 

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