Exposing the Right and Fighting for Democracy: Celebrating Chip Berlet as Journalist and Scholar

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This book celebrates the life and work of scholar-activist Chip Berlet. His contributions over four decades have had broad-ranging impacts on activists, independent intellectuals, and academics, from think tanks and social movements to generations of scholars. Berlet’s work over the decades has covered a wide range of topics, from the Christian Right, armed militias, social movement theory, and white supremacy to conspiracism, civil liberties, and government surveillance. This book features contributions reflecting on many of these topics by leading scholars and activists who have been inspired by his work and example. This book will be of great interest to scholars, students, and activists within anti-racist, anti-fascist, and progressive social movements. Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Notes on contributors Introduction Part I The early years Chapter 1 Chip in the 1960s Chapter 2 My friend Chip Chapter 3 From way back when to now Chapter 4 Chip: The “Winni” years Chapter 5 Our best friend Chapter 6 Awe-inspiring moments and radical alterations: A conversation with Chip Berlet Part II Analysis Chapter 7 Ruminations on an intellectual history of Chip Berlet and the “Right Wing Populism” formulation Chapter 8 Transnational right-wing populism: Chip Berlet’s enduring insights Chapter 9 Chip Berlet’s brave look at the Far Right’s history and ourselves Chapter 10 Reading Chip Berlet in the Rose City Chapter 11 Chip Berlet and the fidelity of the clerks: A historical excursus Chapter 12 Understanding and resisting Left–Right convergence in the internet age Chapter 13 Social movement theory and right-wing conspiracism: Hints from Chip Berlet’s work Chapter 14 What I learned from interacting with and reading Chip Berlet: An appreciation and thank you Chapter 15 Why I’m a Chipite: Lessons from Chip Berlet Chapter 16 Agent and archive: Chip Berlet and the historicity of right-watchers Chapter 17 Donald Trump and the myth of the deep state Part III Practice Chapter 18 Our Chip Chapter 19 In praise of Chip Berlet: Intrepid and trustworthy trail guide Chapter 20 Chip Berlet’s magic and militias Chapter 21 Homage to Chip Chapter 22 A conversation on Chip’s praxis Chapter 23 Righteous mensch Chapter 24 The Berlet school of political thought Chapter 25 Chip: You rock my world! Chapter 26 Fighting the good fight: No chip on his shoulder Chapter 27 Genuine Chip Chapter 28 He opened the library to me Chapter 29 Chip Berlet, co-author Chapter 30 Chip’s intellectual influence in exploring African anti-gay politics Chapter 31 The still, strategic, organizer mind of Chip Berlet Chapter 32 Passing the Torch Chapter 33 Studies on the Right with Chip Berlet Chapter 34 Desperately seeking Chip Part IV Legacy Chapter 35 Reflections on reading Chip Berlet Chapter 36 Chip Berlet and defending dissent Chapter 37 Always there in my corner Chapter 38 A bridge called Chip Berlet Chapter 39 The generosity of Chip Berlet Chapter 40 A tribute to Chip Chapter 41 For Chip Chapter 42 A hero Chapter 43 Chip Berlet was my foundation Chapter 44 The significance of Chip Berlet Chapter 45 A bright light of scholarship and reporting in a darkening time Chapter 46 Standing on the shoulders of giants Chapter 47 Chip Berlet made me a better researcher and thinker Congratulatory statement and signatures Bibliography Appendix Index