Elinor Langer, A Hundred Little Hitlers

I brought three books with me on our July vacation to Nebraska, and finished 2.5 of them. Of the two books I finished reading, one of them was intellectually stimulating and introduced me to new concepts that I hope to apply in my professional work (see this).

The second book has been on my list for years, Elinor Langer's A Hundred Little Hitlers: The Death of a Black Man, the Trial of a White Racist, and the Rise of the Neo-Nazi Movement in America (New York, Metropolitan Books, 2003) (link). I found the book riveting and learned much from Langer's content and her approach.

This review from The Village Voice provides an effective synopsis of the book, so I won't attempt that here. There are also many other reviews of this book available online and in academic journals, and the Youtube video above in which Langer talks about the book.

Specific aspects of the book that made an impression on me below the fold.

Walter Watson, The Architectonics of Meaning

The comment thread on the post "Critiquing Sustainability" over at the Sustainability History Project involved a discussion about alternatives to Brundtlandian sustainability. One commenter, Adam Kissel, wrote

If the point is to thoughtfully consider challenges to a sustainability perspective, I think there’s a lot to think about by examining competition-based, power-based, and win-lose models, and how they either overlap with or reject various sustainability principles.

and suggested that I read Walter Watson's The Architectonics of Meaning to understand further this point.

I've recently finished this book and will begin to process it in this post, so I can respond substantively and succinctly over at the SHP.