White Supremacy

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  1/14/2021
  

  The Capitol Riot Revealed the Darkest Nightmares of White Evangelical America

  by Matthew Avery Sutton

  Many observers have speculated that American evangelicals have had a transactional relationship with Donald Trump. But his messages of "American carnage" and warnings of dire consequences if he is defeated mesh perfectly with their end-times outlook and have helped tie evangelicals to the far right coalition. 

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• SOURCE: Perspectives on History
  1/12/2021
  

  Vikings, Crusaders, Confederates

  by Matthew Gabriele

  The far-right has combined a selective and outdated version of medieval history from popular culture to express values of racial superiority, aggressive masculinity and violence in defense of threatened values.

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• SOURCE: Informed Comment
  1/12/2021
  

  The Armed Accelerationists are Coming: Neo-Nazis and Boogaloo Bois Plan Another Insurrection Jan. 20

  by Juan Cole

  Far-right groups involved in the Capitol riots plan further actions as part of a strategy of "accelerationism" to create spectacular episodes of violence to polarize society.

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  1/13/2021
  

  Learning from the Failure of Reconstruction

  Isaac Chotiner interviews Eric Foner on the echoes of Reconstruction-era political violence in last week's Capitol riots. 

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• SOURCE: Reckon South
  1/12/2021
  

  Was the attack on Congress un-American? Yes and no, historians say

  Historians John Giggie and Manisha Sinha weigh in on how the Capitol riots do and don't reflect patterns of violence in American history. 

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• SOURCE: Vox
  1/8/2021
  

  Whiteness is at the Core of the Insurrection

  Historian Keisha N. Blain argues that the historic white entitlement to control government reared its head yet again on January 6. 

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• SOURCE: CNN
  1/8/2021
  

  The Striking Parallels Between the Assaults on Charlottesville and the Capitol

  by Nicole Hemmer

  The right's defense of their violent "Unite the Right" attack on Charlottesville was a precursor to their strategy in the wake of the Capitol riot: blame the left to convert riots into patriotic Americans. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  1/9/2021
  

  The American Abyss

  by Timothy Snyder

  "The responsibility for Trump’s push to overturn an election must be shared by a very large number of Republican members of Congress."

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• SOURCE: MSNBC
  1/11/2021
  

  How the Pro-Trump Mob Fits in the History of U.S. Lynching

  Kathleen Belew joins Nikole Hannah-Jones on Joy Ann Reid's show to discuss the rise of the far right movement that drove the Capitol rioting on January 6. 

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• SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
  1/8/2021
  

  ‘The Turner Diaries’ Didn’t Just Inspire The Capitol Attack. It Warns Us What Might Be Next

  Historian Kathleen Belew discusses the centrality of the 1978 novel to the far right and its possible use as a blueprint for future attacks.

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• 1/10/2021
  

  A Modern Day Lynch Mob Invaded the Capitol on January 6

  by Guy Lancaster

  When the Capitol rioters took selfies and posted their exploits on social media, they worked from the same expectation of impunity as drove participants in Jim Crow lynch mobs. 

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  1/8/2020
  

  The Capitol Riot Reveals the Dangers From the Enemy Within

  by Eric Foner

  Let’s not assume that until the Capitol riot the United States was a well-functioning democracy.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  12/14/2020
  

  Facing a First Amendment Fight, a Small Minnesota Town Allows a White Supremacist Church

  A small Minnesota town has approved the use of a church building to house a neopaganist group strongly associated with white supremacy, arguing that they would be exposed to an expensive legal action if they denied the permit. This is part of a long pattern of similar First Amendment cases. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  11/3/2020
  

  We Must Do More to Honor the People and Places Lost to Violent Racism

  by Walter Greason

  Teaching a course about collective racial violence in the United States showed a professor the extent to which this history is both integral to the nation and completely hidden from the majority of Americans. 

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• SOURCE: Chicago Tribune
  10/30/2020
  

  Exposing the ‘Disguise’: UChicago Historian Kathleen Belew Spotlights the Rising White Power Movement

  “I think if people really understood and grappled with the fact that (Oklahoma City) was the work of a widespread terrorist movement that was deeply organized, had people in every region of the country,” she says in the interview, “I think that people would treat it very, very differently."

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• SOURCE: New York Magazine
  10/26/2020
  

  FBI Won’t Deliver Report on White-Supremacist Terror Threat Until After Election

  “This report probably would not be viewed favorably by this administration. That, I think, precipitates the report not being released by November 3,” Mississippi representative Bennie Thompson told The Daily Beast.

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• SOURCE: Saturday Evening Post
  10/27/2020
  

  Considering History: Voter Suppression and Racial Terrorism, the Twin Pillars of White Supremacy

  by Ben Railton

  Voter suppression has consistently gone hand in hand with racial terrorism to prop up white supremacy.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  10/17/2020
  

  "White Supremacy" Once Meant David Duke and the Klan. Now it Refers to Much More

  The term "white supremacy" has recently expanded to cover social phenomena beyond overt racial bigotry and discrimination. Historians and other scholars debate this usage. 

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  10/16/2020
  

  Toward a Global History of White Supremacy

  by Daniel Geary, Camilla Schofield, and Jennifer Sutton

  We need to understand the history of global connections between white supremacists if we are to grasp what has sustained white nationalism despite global trends toward liberation and equality.

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• 10/18/2020
  

  "Every Goodbye Ain’t Gone and Every Close Eye Ain’t Shut": Black Georgians' Memories and Election Unease

  by Alicia K. Jackson

  The unspoken realities of past voter suppression resonate in the present experience of many Black Georgians.