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A review by chuchu
Exposing Hate: Prejudice, Hatred, and Violence in Action by Michael Miller
4.0
A brief introduction for teens on a topic that remains relevant as we approach the end of Donald Trump's first term as president. The book is quite short, so it obviously doesn't delve very deeply, but looking at it as a potential addition my middle school's library, I think it offers good definitions to things like hate crimes and hate groups as a way to introduce the concepts to kids so you can then encourage them to do more involved research.
Edited to add: Forgot to mention that I do have a bit of an issue with the book's really small section on the so called "alt left." Miller states that not all extreme groups are from the right wing and then lists antifa as a left wing extremist group, but based on his own writing about them and their activities antifa does not meet the definition of a hate group provided by the book. He goes on to say that some believe that Trump and others like him are only trying to spread the idea of the alt left in order to down play the alt right, so why appear to lend legitimacy to this by including the alt left in the book when it doesn't have the same support for inclusion as the rest of the groups?
Edited to add: Forgot to mention that I do have a bit of an issue with the book's really small section on the so called "alt left." Miller states that not all extreme groups are from the right wing and then lists antifa as a left wing extremist group, but based on his own writing about them and their activities antifa does not meet the definition of a hate group provided by the book. He goes on to say that some believe that Trump and others like him are only trying to spread the idea of the alt left in order to down play the alt right, so why appear to lend legitimacy to this by including the alt left in the book when it doesn't have the same support for inclusion as the rest of the groups?