White Power

White Power is a white nationalist political slogan, and a name for the associated ideology.

As a political phrase, White Power was coined by American Nazi Party leader George Lincoln Rockwell. He used the term in a debate with Stokely Carmichael of the Black Panther Party, after Carmichael issued a call for "Black Power". White Power became the name of the American Nazi Party's newspaper, and the title of a book by Rockwell. Many white nationalists, including white supremacists and certain neo-Nazis, have since used the phrase White Power to describe their political goal.

White Power as an ideology has become closely associated with a racist faction of the skinhead subculture. When the skinhead scene first developed in the United Kingdom in the late 1960s, it was heavily influenced by Jamaican rude boys and British mods. However, by the 1980s, a sizable and vocal white power skinhead faction had formed; partly influenced by Ian Stuart Donaldson and his Rock Against Communism band, Skrewdriver. The band's 1983 EP White Power was the first white power rock music recording printed by the White Noise record label.

References

• Dobratz, Betty A. and Shanks-Meile, Stephanie. "White power, white pride!": The white separatist movement in the United States (Twayne Publishers, NY, 1997).
• Lincoln Rockwell, George. White Power (John McLaughlin, 1996).

See also

• White power skinhead
• Black Power
• White nationalism and Black nationalism
• White supremacy and Black supremacy
• White separatism and Black separatism

External links

• "White Power" by George Lincoln Rockwell
• Ian Stuart Donaldson biography
• Article about white power chants at a school
• Anti-Defamation League article on white power music