... two Los Angeles brothers are drawn into a neo-Nazi skinhead gang, and why one decides to free himself. Derek is a bright kid who has become the leader of a skinhead gang in Venice Beach, California. His kid brother Danny idolizes him, and to some degree steps into his shoes--although he lacks Derek's intelligence and gift for rhetoric. At school, Danny is a good ... father, a fireman, was shot and killed a few years before Derek was sent to prison. He was shot by black drug addicts while he was fighting a fire in a crack house in a black neighborhood. On a TV news broadcast covering the...

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... , Elliot Gould, Avery Brooks, Ethan Suplee, and Beverly D'Angelo. The setting of the movie is based in Venice Beach California. Derek and Danny come from a middle class family. Derek is in his early 30's while Danny is in high school. Their father Dennis was a firefighter. Their mother is very sick and is appears as if ... fire at a drug den. Dennis is murdered by a black crack dealer. Derek spills his racist bigotry during a newscast interview after his father's death. The murder sets Derek off. Derek and his racist friend Cameron start up a white supreme gang called the D.O.C. After th...

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... a way to vent his rage, Derek finds himself transformed by a philosophy of hate as he turns into a charismatic leader of a local white power movement in Venice, California. . "Hooking up with a local white-power activist Cameron (Stacey Keach), he organizes a group of white kids into an organized mob who terrorize ... and direct the country. These scenes illustrate the mob mentality, which is created by white power groups. Despite his undisputable intelligence, his incendiary actions culminate in a brutal murder and ultimately, a prison sentence. Three years later, everyone awaits Dere...

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... theory assumes that economic inequalities are the underlying source of all conflicts. American History X does follow suit. When Danny tells the story about Venice Beach ten years ago, how it was a beautiful small prominently white neighborhood. And how it evolved into a lower income it makes you ... get higher? Either way a vicious circle is formed. "Collective action of the top dogs against the underdogs establishes the practices of inequality in each mode of inequality, parasitic practices are established through collective action, and then enabling myths make the practices seem legit...

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... of how to arouse a crowd like Derek. Derek seems to be fueled by hate from the death of his father. His father was killed by a drug dealer as he was trying to fight a fire in a crack house in a black neighbor hood. Danny the younger brother followed whatever his brother did, he witnessed Derek gun ... a dispute that happened on the basketball court. Once Derek was incarcerated he finds himself joining a neo-nazi gang for which he was protected. Later in the film Derek gets fed up with the working relationship between the different races and finds himself breaking away from the gang. The n...

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