Fascist Legacies

Ari Kohen is a professor of political science, Myer and Dorothy Kripke Chair of Judaic Studies, and director of the Norman and Bernice Harris Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.Gerald J. Steinacher is the James A. Rawley Professor of History at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Kohen and Steinacher are the coeditors of Antisemitism on the Rise: The 1930s and Today (Nebraska, 2021) and Unlikely Heroes: The Place of Holocaust Rescuers in Research and Teaching (Nebraska, 2019).

"A timely and essential contribution to the field. The editors have done an excellent job in bringing together a series of chapters that show the different aspects of fascism and how it might be interpreted. . . . A succinct and accessible guide to the relevant debates."—Bob Moore, emeritus professor of modern history at the University of Sheffield"With nuanced scholarship, Fascist Legacies contributes to the intense and ever-changing debate over what is or is not fascism in the twenty-first century. The diversity of contributors, from historians to political scientists and activists, is unique. . . . It is transnational, if not global, in perspective and includes so many methodologies: history, political science, sociology, literature, education."—Brian E. Crim, author of Our Germans: Project Paperclip and the National Security State

• List of Illustrations Preface Gerald J. Steinacher and Ari Kohen Introduction Gerald J. Steinacher and Ari Kohen 1. Right-Wing Populism and the Rise of Authoritarianism in Europe and the United States Zack Beauchamp 2. What Does Fascism Look Like in the Twenty-First Century? Matt McManus 3. Fascism and Firearms Amanda Gailey 4. Antifeminism: Overlooked Ideology and Indicator for Authoritarianism Rebekka Blum and Alia Wielens 5. Ctrl V Fascism: Memes, Manifestos, and Far-Right Violence Casey Ryan Kelly and William J. Sipe 6. The Nebraska Nazi: Native Fascism in Interwar America Melissa A. Amateis 7. Mobilizing Passions: How White Christian Nationalism Advances American Fascism Samuel L. Perry 8. How to Teach about the Nazi Past: A Perspective from Austria Philipp Mittnik Appendix: The Anti-Defamation League and the Rise of Antisemitism Today Trent Spoolstra Contributors Index