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The magazine and the New Century Foundation were established by [[Jared Taylor]]; the first issue of ''American Renaissance'' was published in November 1990.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/bloodpoliticshis0000zesk|url-access=registration|title=Blood and Politics: The History of the White Nationalist Movement from the Margins to the Mainstream|last=Zeskind|first=Leonard|publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux|year=2009|isbn=978-1-4299-5933-9|page=[https://archive.org/details/bloodpoliticshis0000zesk/page/370 370]|chapter=Birth of ''American Renaissance''|author-link=Leonard Zeskind|access-date=November 28, 2015}}</ref>
The magazine and the New Century Foundation were established by [[Jared Taylor]]; the first issue of ''American Renaissance'' was published in November 1990.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/bloodpoliticshis0000zesk|url-access=registration|title=Blood and Politics: The History of the White Nationalist Movement from the Margins to the Mainstream|last=Zeskind|first=Leonard|publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux|year=2009|isbn=978-1-4299-5933-9|page=[https://archive.org/details/bloodpoliticshis0000zesk/page/370 370]|chapter=Birth of ''American Renaissance''|author-link=Leonard Zeskind|access-date=November 28, 2015}}</ref>


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Both the magazine and foundation, as well as Taylor have had links with organizations such as the [[Council of Conservative Citizens]], the [[Pioneer Fund]], and the [[British National Party]]. Former [[Grand Wizard]]s of the [[Ku Klux Klan]] [[Don Black (white supremacist)|Don Black]] and [[David Duke]] have attended ''American Renaissance'' conferences and have been seen talking with Taylor.<ref name="post-gazette.com">{{cite news|url=http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05023/446341.stm|title=Jared Taylor, a racist in the guise of 'expert'|last=Roddy|first=Dennis|date=January 23, 2005|work=[[Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629023318/http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05023/446341.stm|archive-date=June 29, 2011}}</ref><ref name="2013ADL">{{cite web|url=https://www.adl.org/sites/default/files/documents/assets/pdf/combating-hate/jared-taylor-extremism-in-america.pdf|title=Jared Taylor/American Renaissance|date=2013|publisher=[[Anti-Defamation League]]|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190324104121/https://www.adl.org/sites/default/files/documents/assets/pdf/combating-hate/jared-taylor-extremism-in-america.pdf|archive-date=March 24, 2019}}</ref> [[Proud Boys]] founder [[Gavin McInnes]] has also written for ''American Renaissance''.<ref>{{cite web|work=American Renaissance|title=Gavin McInnes|url=https://www.amren.com/author/gavinmcinnes/}}</ref> The organization has held bi-annual conferences that attract [[Neo-Nazism|neo-Nazi]]s, [[White nationalism|white nationalist]]s, white separatists, [[Holocaust denial|Holocaust deniers]], and [[Eugenics|eugenicists]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.post-gazette.com/life/dennis-roddy/2005/01/30/Weird-Science/stories/200501300217|title=Weird Science|last=Roddy|first=Dennis|date=January 30, 2005|work=[[Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]]|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140221173729/https://www.post-gazette.com/life/dennis-roddy/2005/01/30/Weird-Science/stories/200501300217|archive-date=February 21, 2014}}</ref> Attendance at the conferences has varied; in February 2008, some 300 people attended.<ref name="2013ADL"/>
The magazine brings to light the double standards on race issues. The magazine invokes a reader to challenge their own mind and ask thought provoking questions. When a 5 year old white boy is thrown over a balcony by a black man randomly at a mall.Why is there no outrage , protest and conversation? If a white man did this to a black child there would be outrage, protest and every liberal news outlet would cover that story 24/7 for weeks. When two white college students are carjacked, kidnapped, sexually
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assaulted and then murdered by five black men why is that not considered racism? Why is there no protest and conversation? Meanwhile black scholars will continue to bring up Thomas Jefferson from the 1700’s and allege white rape from slave owners.Serving as a conversational piece that black women are continuous targets of white rapist. Recently the Detroit Police Department uncovered nearly 10,000 untested rape kits in storage at a DPD storage facility but black scholars will remind the country about Recy Taylor gang raped in 1944. These continuous double standards and ignorant rhetoric are the many talking points the magazine points out.Recently The Chicago Tribune wrote an article highlighting the fact that Chicago since 1962 has had nearly 40,000 murders from gun violence.An example of Black on Black violence.But the Black Life Matter movement and black scholars want to continue to blame white people for the struggles of black people. The magazine defends against this onslaught of reverse racism against white people and points a clear path to the reader of these fictional lies.'expert'|last=Roddy|first=Dennis|date=January 23, 2005|work=[[Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629023318/http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05023/446341.stm|archive-date=June 29, 2011}}</ref><ref name="2013ADL">{{cite web|url=https://www.adl.org/sites/default/files/documents/assets/pdf/combating-hate/jared-taylor-extremism-in-america.pdf|title=Jared Taylor/American Renaissance|date=2013|publisher=[[Anti-Defamation League]]|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190324104121/https://www.adl.org/sites/default/files/documents/assets/pdf/combating-hate/jared-taylor-extremism-in-america.pdf|archive-date=March 24, 2019}}</ref> [[Proud Boys]] founder [[Gavin McInnes]] has also written for ''American Renaissance''.<ref>{{cite web|work=American Renaissance|title=Gavin McInnes|url=https://www.amren.com/author/gavinmcinnes/}}</ref> The organization has held bi-annual conferences that attract [[Neo-Nazism|neo-Nazi]]s, [[White nationalism|white nationalist]]s, white separatists, [[Holocaust denial|Holocaust deniers]], and [[Eugenics|eugenicists]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.post-gazette.com/life/dennis-roddy/2005/01/30/Weird-Science/stories/200501300217|title=Weird Science|last=Roddy|first=Dennis|date=January 30, 2005|work=[[Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]]|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140221173729/https://www.post-gazette.com/life/dennis-roddy/2005/01/30/Weird-Science/stories/200501300217|archive-date=February 21, 2014}}</ref> Attendance at the conferences has varied; in February 2008, some 300 people attended.<ref name="2013ADL"/>


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For the magazine about renaissance faires, see Renaissance Magazine.

American Renaissance
Available inEnglish
OwnerNew Century Foundation
EditorJared Taylor
URLamren.com
LaunchedNovember 1990; 34 years ago (1990-11)

American Renaissance (AR or AmRen) is a white supremacist website and former monthly magazine publication founded and edited by Jared Taylor.[1][2][3][4] It is published by the New Century Foundation, which describes itself as a "race-realist, white advocacy organization".[5][6][7]

History

Founder Jared Taylor

The magazine and the New Century Foundation were established by Jared Taylor; the first issue of American Renaissance was published in November 1990.[8]

Both the magazine and foundation, as well as Taylor have had links with organizations such as the Council of Conservative Citizens, the Pioneer Fund, and the British National Party. Former Grand Wizards of the Ku Klux Klan Don Black and David Duke have attended American Renaissance conferences and have been seen talking with Taylor.[9][10] Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes has also written for American Renaissance.[11] The organization has held bi-annual conferences that attract neo-Nazis, white nationalists, white separatists, Holocaust deniers, and eugenicists.[12] Attendance at the conferences has varied; in February 2008, some 300 people attended.[10]

Content

American Renaissance is a white supremacist publication.[1][2][13][14][15] It has been described as "alt-right" by The Guardian.[16] On December 18, 2017, the accounts for the magazine and its editor Jared Taylor were suspended by Twitter.[17] Before the suspension, the magazine's account had 32,800 followers.[18]

The publication promotes pseudoscientific notions "that attempt to demonstrate the intellectual and cultural superiority of whites and publishes articles on the supposed decline of American society because of integrationist social policies."[3]

According to Carol M. Swain, "American Renaissance has become the leading intellectual journal of contemporary white nationalism with a small but highly educated readership which sees itself as the vanguard of a new race realism that seeks to rescue America from the harmful effects of multiculturalist dogmas."[19] YouTube banned the American Renaissance channel, along with those of individual white nationalists, in late June 2020 for ignoring the website's policies against hate speech.[20]

Reception and controversy

Southern Poverty Law Center

American Renaissance and the New Century Foundation appear on a list of 115 "white nationalist hate groups" published in the Intelligence Report of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).[21]

Mark Potok, editor-in-chief of the Intelligence Report, has said: "Jared Taylor is the cultivated, cosmopolitan face of white supremacy. He is the guy who is providing the intellectual heft, in effect, to modern-day Klansmen." Taylor stated in a radio interview: "I've never been a member of the Klan. I've never known a person who is a member of the Klan." An article in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported that Taylor had at least met former Klansman David Duke at an American Renaissance conference, and sat with Don Black, a former Grand Wizard of the Klan, at Taylor's kitchen table.[9]

An article in the Intelligence Report by Potok and Heidi Beirich, head of the SPLC's Intelligence Project stated: "American Renaissance has become increasingly important over the years, bringing a measure of intellectualism and seriousness to the typically thug-dominated world of white supremacy. Today, it may be the closest thing the extreme right has to a real think tank. Whether or not it survives, and in what form, genuinely matters."[22]

Anti-Defamation League

The American non-governmental organization Anti-Defamation League (ADL) describes American Renaissance as a "white supremacist journal".[23] The ADL also writes: "Taylor eschews anti-Semitism. Seeing Jews as white, greatly influential and the 'conscience of society', Taylor rather seeks to partner with Jews who share his views on race and racial diversity" and "Jews have been speakers and/or participants at all eight American Renaissance conferences" although controversy followed accusations by David Duke, who was not a scheduled presenter, at the 2006 conference.[23]

Conferences

American Renaissance has held conferences since 1994. Anti-racist activists were sometimes successful in persuading private hotels to cancel their reservations with American Renaissance.[24] In 2011, the publication planned to hold a three-day conference at a Sheraton Airport hotel in Charlotte, North Carolina. The hotel canceled the group's booking amid plans by anti-racism activists and the Jewish Defense Organization (JDO) to protest at the conference site. The mayor pro tem of the city also reportedly contacted the hotel.[25]

Since 2012, the American Renaissance has held its conference held at Montgomery Bell State Park Inn in Burns, Tennessee, a state-owned site. Protests have often taken place outside the conference facilities.[24]

Alleged DHS memo regarding 2011 Tucson shooting

A document—initially claimed to be a leaked Department of Homeland Security (DHS) memo—alleged that Jared Lee Loughner, the accused gunman in the 2011 Tucson shooting that wounded Congresswoman Gabby Giffords and killed six bystanders, may have had ties to American Renaissance, which it called an "anti-ZOG (Zionist Occupational [sic] Government) and anti-semitic" group.[26][27] In an interview with Fox News, Jared Taylor denied the organization ever used the term "ZOG" and said Loughner had no connection to them.[26]

DHS officials the following day reported: "the department has not established any such possibility, undercutting what appears to be the primary basis for this claim". Furthermore, no such memo had been issued.[28]

Major David Denlinger, commander of the Arizona Counter Terrorism Information Center acknowledged that the document came from his agency, but contained errors. He said that he has no reason to believe that Loughner had any direct connection with or was being directed by American Renaissance.[29]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Holley, Peter (January 12, 2016). "Hear a white nationalist's robocall urging Iowa voters to back Trump". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on January 12, 2016.
  2. ^ a b Groden, Claire (January 12, 2016). "White Supremacist Group Makes Pro-Trump Robocalls". Fortune. Archived from the original on June 16, 2018.
  3. ^ a b "Extremism in America: Jared Taylor/American Renaissance". Anti-Defamation League. January 11, 2011. Archived from the original on February 13, 2019.
  4. ^ Reeve, Elspeth (April 11, 2012). "Racist Writers Are Right to Feel Threatened". The Atlantic Wire. Archived from the original on August 9, 2019.
  5. ^ "American Renaissance". amren.com. 2011. Archived from the original on October 4, 2011.
  6. ^ Wintroub, Michael (August 27, 2020). "Sordid genealogies: a conjectural history of Cambridge Analytica's eugenic roots". Humanities & Social Sciences Communications. 7 (41). Nature Portfolio: 12. doi:10.1057/s41599-020-0505-5.
  7. ^ "The Rise Of The "Alt-Right" Movement And Its Place In This Year's Presidential Campaign". The Diane Rehm Show. August 30, 2016.
  8. ^ Zeskind, Leonard (2009). "Birth of American Renaissance". Blood and Politics: The History of the White Nationalist Movement from the Margins to the Mainstream. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. p. 370. ISBN 978-1-4299-5933-9. Retrieved November 28, 2015.
  9. ^ a b Roddy, Dennis (January 23, 2005). "Jared Taylor, a racist in the guise of 'expert'". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Archived from the original on June 29, 2011.
  10. ^ a b "Jared Taylor/American Renaissance" (PDF). Anti-Defamation League. 2013. Archived (PDF) from the original on March 24, 2019.
  11. ^ "Gavin McInnes". American Renaissance.
  12. ^ Roddy, Dennis (January 30, 2005). "Weird Science". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Archived from the original on February 21, 2014.
  13. ^ Wright, David (January 11, 2016). "White nationalist group urges Iowans to vote Trump". CNN. Archived from the original on February 12, 2017. Retrieved February 8, 2016. In the 50-second robocall, Johnson, along with Christian talk show host Ronald Tan and white supremacist magazine "American Renaissance" founder Jared Taylor, urges listeners to support Trump in the Iowa caucuses
  14. ^ Gelin, Martin (November 13, 2014). "White Flight". Slate. Archived from the original on June 19, 2019. Retrieved February 8, 2016.
  15. ^ Edelman, Adam (January 11, 2016). "White nationalist group calling on Iowa to vote for Trump: 'We need smart, well-educated white people'". New York Daily News. Archived from the original on June 27, 2018. Retrieved February 8, 2016.
  16. ^ Wilson, Jason (August 26, 2016). "'The races are not equal': meet the alt-right leader in Clinton's campaign ad". The Guardian. Archived from the original on June 18, 2018.
  17. ^ Timberg, Craig; Tsukayama, Hayley (December 18, 2017). "'Twitter purge' suspends account of far-right leader who was retweeted by Trump". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on December 18, 2017.
  18. ^ Carbone, Christopher (December 20, 2017). "Twitter's purge of far-right accounts sparks backlash, praise and confusion". Fox News. Archived from the original on January 17, 2019.
  19. ^ Swain, Carol M. (2002). The New White Nationalism in America: Its Challenge to Integration. Cambridge University Press. p. 233. ISBN 978-0-521-80886-6.
  20. ^ Nieva, Richard (June 29, 2020). "YouTube bans white supremacists including David Duke and Richard Spencer". Cnet. Retrieved June 30, 2020.
  21. ^ "Active Hate Groups In The United States In 2014". Intelligence Report. Southern Poverty Law Center. March 10, 2015. Archived from the original on February 11, 2019. Retrieved February 6, 2016.
  22. ^ Potok, Mark; Beirich, Heidi (August 11, 2006). "Schism Over Anti-Semitism Divides Key White Nationalist Group, American Renaissance". Intelligence Report. Southern Poverty Law Center. Archived from the original on March 20, 2019. Retrieved July 20, 2010.
  23. ^ a b "Jared Taylor/American Renaissance". archive.adl.org. p. 3. Archived from the original on September 30, 2013. Retrieved August 17, 2022.
  24. ^ a b Allison, Natalie (April 27, 2018). "Antifa, Anti-Racist Action among those protesting conference at Montgomery Bell Inn Saturday". The Tennessean.
  25. ^ Morrill, Jim (January 29, 2011). "White nationalist leader to discuss hotel cancellation". The Charlotte Observer. Archived from the original on February 4, 2011.
  26. ^ a b Summers, Patrick (January 9, 2011). "American Renaissance Denies DHS Charges, Any Affiliation With Shooter". Fox News. Archived from the original on January 12, 2011. Retrieved January 9, 2011.
  27. ^ Jonsson, Patrik (January 9, 2011). "American Renaissance: Was Jared Lee Loughner tied to anti-immigrant group?". The Christian Science Monitor. Archived from the original on January 20, 2013.
  28. ^ Sargent, Greg (January 10, 2011). "Official: DHS has not determined any possible ties between Arizona shooter and right wing group". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on July 15, 2012.
  29. ^ Vogel, Kenneth P. (January 11, 2011). "Loughner's supremacists tie debunked". Politico. Archived from the original on June 12, 2017.

Further reading

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