JOURNAL OF HATE STUDIES
Gonzaga University
Institute for Action Against Hate
Volume 1 Number 1
Can be purchased for $25.00
The Gonzaga Institute for Action Against Hate has published its first annual
“Journal of Hate Studies.” The
first issue is being distributed to more than 3,000 colleges, universities,
social justice organizations and
activists, and hate crime monitors and scholars. The journal, edited by GU
School of Law Associate
Professor George Critchlow, is being published to promote the sharing of interdisciplinary
ideas and research
relating to the study of hate, where hate comes from, and how to combat it.
It contains the works of authors in the
fields of psychology, religious studies, information science and technology,
human rights activism, and law.
Selected articles are available online in Adobe pdf format. Please note
that some page breaks differ slightly between the
online version and the hard copy. Copyright 2002 by Gonzaga University
Institue for Action Against Hate
The Journal includes the following:
• Preface by George Critchlow ONLINE
• “Perpetrators of Genocide: An Explanatory Model of Extraordinary Human
Evil,” by James Waller, psychology
professor, Whitworth College. “A timely exposition of the evolutionary,
individual, social, and situational factors
inherent in the process that causes ordinary people to commit extraordinary
evil.” ONLINE
• “Christian Identity: An American Heresy,” by Rev. David Ostendorf,
a United Church of Christ minister
currently serving as director of the Chicago-based Center for New Community.
“A comprehensive expose of the
historical antecedents and the theological underpinnings of the Christian
Identity white supremacist belief system
embraced by the Aryan Nations and other organized hate groups.” ONLINE 
07-16-02
• “Not in Our World,” by Bill Wassmuth and M. J. Bryant. Wassmuth helped found
and lead the Kootenai County
(Idaho) Task Force on Race Relations. He also founded the Northwest Coalition
Against Malicious Harassment and was
its director from 1989-1999. He is a former chair of the Board of Advisors of
the Gonzaga University Institute for
Action Against Hate. An alumnus of Gonzaga University, Bryant is a poet and
freelance writer who lives in
Spokane. “The story of how a man, a community, and a region confronted the emergence
of organized hate groups in
the Inland Northwest.” ONLINE
• “Vindication of Hate Violence Victims Via Criminal and Civil Adjudications,”
by Brian Levin. A civil rights
attorney, Levin is a professor of criminal justice at California State
University, San Bernardino, where he
directs the Center for the Study of Hate & Extremism. “An overview
of the role federal and state law
has played in the fight against hate.” ONLINE
• “Bibliography of Hate Studies Materials,” by Gonzaga Law Library Associate
Professor Elizabeth Thweatt.
An annotated bibliography that includes a selection of books, reports,
government documents, and videos published
between 1980 and 2000. ONLINE