Les Back

About the author: Les Back is the head of the Centre for Urban and Community Research at Goldsmiths College in London.

The Internet offers isolated white supremacists an anonymous link to people all over the world who share white power ideology. Websites like Stormfront, the first racist site, offer chat rooms for like-minded individuals to recruit members for white supremacist groups and discuss racist ideas. The Aryan Dating Page allows white supremacists to place personal ads, while RaceLink offers a list of contacts across the world for activists to stay with when traveling. The growing racist activism on the Internet is not as dangerous as one would think, however, since commitment and follow through are lacking in many white supremacists who use the Internet...