EXPOSING HATE by Michael Miller explores "Prejudice, Hatred, and Violence in Action" and Booklist calls it "a necessary book on a hot-button social issue." Geared to high school students, this non-fiction text is only 144 pages long. A possible starting point for research, it simply defines a hate group as "an organization that attacks or harms an entire group of people for characteristics they cannot change." In addition, Miller notes statistics from the Southern Poverty Law Center which officially recognized 457 hate groups in 1999 as opposed to the increased number of 954 active hate groups in 2017. He writes about hate crimes both against people and against property, noting that hate groups "promote extremist views," and discusses racially motivated events in Charlottesville and Charleston. Although, Miller provides examples of anti-gay, anti-immigrant, and anti-Semite actions, other groups (e.g., indigenous peoples) are largely overlooked. He does acknowledge that "research shows that when a person meets and gets to know something about someone who is different from them, they gain a better understanding of the other person. They begin to rethink existing prejudices." EXPOSING HATE has a glossary, well-documented source notes (often from media outlets), a selected bibliography and a very helpful list of relevant books, films, and websites. Students could pair parts of this with the "go back" stories recently published by the New York Times.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/19/reader-center/trump-go-back-stories.html