White Supremacy

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  2/23/2023
  

  Why is a Senate Office Building Still Named for an Unrepentant Segregationist and White Supremacist?

  Texas Senator Ted Cruz decried efforts to "sanitize history" and argued that "the journey of the United States has been a steady journey toward freedom" by way of explaining why he did not support removing segregationist Senator Richard Russell's name from a Senate office building. But few Democrats will candidly support change either.

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• SOURCE: Bloomberg
  2/18/2023
  

  Jefferson Cowie: A Long History of White Grievance Aimed at the Federal Government

  A microhistory of one Alabama county suggests that "freedom" has always been imagined by many white Americans to encompass their ability to dominate or exploit others, a vision that has been antagonistic to federal intervention.

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  12/7/2022
  

  There's No Choice But to Fight for a Better America

  by Siva Vaidhyanathan

  "We often misdiagnose our current malady as one of 'polarization.' That’s wrong. We have one rogue, ethno-authoritarian party and one fairly stable and diverse party."

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  11/28/2022
  

  Trump Keeps Boosting White Supremacists

  Post Columnist Greg Sargent discusses Trump's meeting with white supremacist Nick Fuentes as a PR coup for the far right and an affirmation that they are part of Trump's base. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  11/19/2022
  

  There are No "Lone Wolves"

  Building on the work of Kathleen Belew and others, the Times editorial board argues that recent episodes of racial terrorism are part of a global white nationalist movement. 

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• SOURCE: Vanity Fair
  10/14/2022
  

  This White Supremacist Author Has Quietly Been Un-Canceled by the Right

  Sam Francis's 1990s writings have been hailed as a model of the angry white working class politics of Trumpism, but a critic notes that this obscures the deep current of white supremacy that runs through his thinking. Conservatives once pushed Francis out of their movement; is MAGA bringing him back in? 

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• SOURCE: MSNBC
  6/15/2022
  

  Belew to Maddow: Fascist Groups are "Nationwide Paramilitary Army"

  Kathleen Belew, an expert on white nationalist paramilitary groups, talks with Rachel Maddow about why individual incidents with racist extremist groups should be seen as part of a single, larger groundswell.

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• 6/15/2022
  

  Far Right Extremism, Paramilitarization, and Misogyny – Statement of Alexandra Stern to the January 6 Committee

  by Alexandra Minna Stern

  The alt-right groups represented at the Capitol on January 6 drew organizing power from online communities where grievance politics around race and gender flourished. Key features were heavy doses of irony that gave deniability to violent rhetoric and extreme misogyny. 

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  6/9/2022
  

  The Unity that Follows Tragedy Shouldn't Obscure Buffalo's History of Racism

  by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

  The invented image of a "City of Good Neighbors" has been a rhetorical one-way street in Buffalo, with calls for unity gaining more traction than calls for justice or equality. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  6/15/2022
  

  The Secessionist Roots of January 6

  by Elizabeth R. Varon

  "The story of Southern secession provides illuminating evidence that the Jan. 6 insurgency was, indeed, precedented, rooted in long-standing efforts to preempt, delegitimize and suppress Black voting."

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• SOURCE: CNN
  6/15/2022
  

  "Patriot Front" Plan to Attack Pride Shows Connections of White Supremacy and Anti-LGBTQ Politics

  The arrest of neonazis in Idaho who planned an attack on a Pride event echoes a 1937 raid on a Miami gay nightclub by the KKK, says historian Julio Capo, Jr. 

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• SOURCE: Substack
  6/6/2022
  

  Proud Boys Indictment Charges Attempt to Overthrow Government. Does it Matter?

  by Heather Cox Richardson

  The charge of seditious conspiracy by a paramilitary organization with close ties to the Trumpian Right is incredibly serious, but will it be met with a shrug?

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  6/2/2022
  

  Another Tragic Eruption of "Great Replacement" Violence

  by Glenn C. Altschuler and Stuart M. Blumin

  "While the specific targets and methods of spreading this theory may be new, White native-born Americans worrying about being replaced is not. And history demonstrates that the theory has been repeatedly used to legitimize discrimination and deadly violence."

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• 5/29/2022
  

  There is a Real "Great Replacement" – But Not the One the Right Talks About

  by Guy Lancaster

  Arkansas history shows how the true Great Replacement in the United States has been organized by oligarchs hoping to use immigrant labor to undercut Black people's demands for economic fairness and human rights. 

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  5/19/2022
  

  Will Buffalo Change Anything?

  Historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and survivor/activist David Hogg discuss whether American politicians will ever confront the horrific combination of racism and guns. 

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• SOURCE: Baptist News
  5/13/2022
  

  The Religion of the "Lost Cause" Is Back, and It May be Winning

  by Bill Leonard

  The weaponization of Southern Christianity around perceived threats to cultural integrity today adapts the playbook of the Lost Cause to the present. 

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• SOURCE: African American Policy Forum
  5/18/2022
  

  African American Policy Forum Statement on Buffalo Massacre

  "Racial terrorism would die out with the generations weaned on it—or so the more hopeful among us believed."

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  5/16/2022
  

  White Power, White Violence, and the Open-Source Manual for Terrorism

  by Kathleen Belew

  The Buffalo shooter's manifesto doesn't need to be coherent or reality-based; its function will be to give instruction to future white supremacist terrorists within growing networks.

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• 5/18/2022
  

  Historians on the Mainstreaming of the "Great Replacement" Myth

  by HNN Staff

  This conspiratorial claim of a plot by elites to replace whites with nonwhite and immigrant voters has moved from the far-right fringe to cable news and appears to have played a part in the radicalization of several mass shooters. Historians discuss what it is and what it means. 

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  5/15/2022
  

  Isaac Chotiner Interviews Kathleen Belew on White Power and the Buffalo Mass Shooting

  "The idea is simply that many different kinds of social change are connected to a plot by a cabal of élites to eradicate the white race, which people in this movement believe is their nation."