White Supremacy

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• SOURCE: NPR
  9/26/2021
  

  Kathleen Belew Explains the White Supremacist "Great Replacement" Ideology

  NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with Kathleen Belew, co-editor of "A Field Guide to White Supremacy" about Great Replacement Theory, also known as White Replacement Theory.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/19/2021
  

  Alabama Begins to Remove Racist Language from State Constitution

  The 1901 Alabama constitution explicitly declared its intention to preserve the power of "the Anglo-Saxon race." A committee is now preparing a version stripped of racist language which will go before the voters next year for ratification. 

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• SOURCE: Daily Beast
  9/12/2021
  

  Why are Historians Facing Online Abuse Over Whether Atlantis Existed?

  Archaeologists who debunked a popular television series interpreting Plato's references to Atlantis as fact instead of allegory soon discovered the affinity many eugenicists, neonazis and white supremacists have for the myth. 

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  7/29/2021
  

  American Education Is Founded on White Race Theory

  In the 1890s the National Education Association worked to standardize the national secondary curriculum, deciding what subjects were worthy of study, and in the process developing a white supremacist curriculum in history. 

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• 8/1/2021
  

  "Forget the Alamo" Synthesizes Revisionist Scholarship for Today's History Wars

  by James Thornton Harris

  Academics have long understood Texas's heroic founding myths centered on the Alamo to be cover stories for the cause of slavery and white supremacy, but they've been tenacious parts of the state's culture. A new book joins the battle as state leaders dig in to defend those myths. 

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• SOURCE: Historical Transactions (Royal Historical Society)
  7/28/2021
  

  Historically White Fraternities and Sororities Should be Accountable for White Supremacy

  by Taulby Edmondson

  Although many White Greek Letter organizations have upheld white supremacy, the role of Black fraternities and sororities in advancing demands for more inclusive campuses makes it difficult to call for a blanket ban on the social organizations. 

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian
  7/14/2021
  

  The Many Myths of the Term ‘Anglo-Saxon’

  by Mary Rambaran-Olm and Erik Wade

  References to America's "Anglo-Saxon heritage" are often racist dogwhistles, and usually fully detached from the history of the Anglo-Saxon people. 

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  5/3/2021
  

  White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea, by Tyler Stovall

  Tyler Stovall's new book argues that Enlightenment concepts of liberty and the slave trade were not contradictory; whiteness and freedom were mutually necessary to each other. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/1/2021
  

  From the Past, a Chilling Warning About the Extremists of the Present

  “Do they want armed revolution and race war or are they seeking to enter politics?” said historian Kathleen Belew. “Do they want to burn it down or do they want to take over?”

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• SOURCE: MSNBC
  4/17/2021
  

  GOP's New 'America First Caucus' Follows in some Blatantly White Nationalist Footsteps

  by Kevin M. Kruse

  The 1920s saw American nativists invoke the purity of "Anglo Saxon" heritage as a justification for restricting immigration outside of western Europe and other measures that inspired the racial dictatorship of Nazism. It needs to be made clear where this "America First" movement can lead. 

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• 3/21/2021
  

  White Terrorism: From Post-Civil-War Lynchings to the Present

  by Walter G. Moss

  The Capitol riots of January 6 echoed elements of mob lynchings in the participants' binary us/them view of society, a conservative white Protestant religious culture, and a willingness to accept rumor and conspiracy as justifications for their actions.

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  3/16/2021
  

  The Post-Trump Crack-Up of the Evangelical Community

  Anthea Butler and Kristin Kobes Du Mez offer insight into how racial double standards within evangelical religion and the willingness of "insider" historians to craft a selective picture of evangelical political action has made it difficult to understand how many of today's evangelical leaders have made peace with (or even embraced) white supremacy.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  3/4/2021
  

  What the Policing Response to the KKK in the 1960s Can Teach about Dismantling White Supremacist Groups Today

  by David Cunningham

  If history is a guide, providing police with new tools to address current white nationalist threats could result in further repression of activists of color.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  2/26/2021
  

  America’s Political Roots Are in Eutaw, Alabama

  "The terror campaign of 1870 ended the promise of Alabama’s brief Reconstruction era, allowing the so-called Redeemers to pry Alabama from the hands of reform. This was the critical juncture that led to the way things are."

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• SOURCE: Virginian-Pilot
  3/1/2021
  

  How a Wave of Segregationist Tributes, from Streets to Schools, Entrenched the Idea of White Supremacy

  Understanding the stakes of renaming public buildings, streets, or schools requires understanding the purposeful politics that attached the names of Confederates to public spaces a century ago, say Virginia historians Dan Margolies and Calvin Pearson.

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  2/22/2021
  

  The 150-Year Prosecution of White Supremacy

  Merrick Garland's answers to quesitons about domestic right-wing extremism show that he understands the through-line connecting post-Reconstruction racist terrorism, the 1990s militia movement, and the groups present at the US Capitol on January 6. It remains to be seen if he will have the support he needs to follow through on his pledge to prosecute them.

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• SOURCE: Atlanta Journal-Constitution
  2/23/2021
  

  Historical Markers About Notable Black Georgians Shot, Vandalized

  Markers in South Georgia paid tribute to Jackie Robinson and lynching victim Mary Turner.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/18/2021
  

  The 150-Year-Old Ku Klux Klan Act Being Used Against Trump In Capitol Attack

  Ulysses S. Grant championed legislation to apply the power of the federal government against armed conspiracies to prevent the exercise of the vote. A Mississippi Congressman is now suing Donald Trump and Rudy Giuliani under a provision of the law that allows victims to file civil lawsuits against conspirators.

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• SOURCE: ArcDigital
  2/11/2021
  

  Phrenology Is Here To Stay

  by Courtney E. Thompson

  Liberal journalists have treated present-day exponents of phrenology as kooks. This is a dangerous dismissal of phrenology's origins among the 19th century intellectual elite which encourages false security that today's science is insulated from social currents of racism, sexism, or other power politics. 

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• SOURCE: Mother Jones
  2/4/2021
  

  How to Teach History in a Community Still Reckoning With Its Past

  "For the African American community, it was still this large, looming scar, and the white community literally didn’t even know what had happened. It had just been erased. There was this disconnect in the community."