White Supremacy

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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.

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• SOURCE: ABC News
  10/6/2020
  

  Nation’s Deadliest Domestic Terrorist Inspiring New Generation Of Hate-Filled ‘Monsters,’ FBI Records Show

  “A mass casualty event like the Oklahoma City bombing is … meant to provoke further violence," noted Kathleen Belew, a University of Chicago historian.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/8/2020
  

  The Plot Against Whitmer Won’t Be The Last White Supremacist Threat

  by Kathleen Belew

  I'm very concerned that more violence is imminent, and that these ideologies pose an imminent threat to our democracy and to people going about their everyday lives.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  10/8/2020
  

  Americans Aren't Worried about White Nationalism in the Military– Because They Don't Know It's There

  by Jennifer Spindel, Matt Motta, and Robert Ralston

  The extent of white nationalism in the active military is not precisely known. But few Americans are aware at all of the connections between the military and far right groups. Publicizing the fact that military leadership--a trusted group--is concerned about the issue could make more Americans aware of the problem of domestic extremism.

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  10/6/2020
  

  The Oligarchs’ Revenge (Review)

  by Manisha Sinha

  Heather Cox Richardson's book makes an essential argument that the conceptual distinction between class and race in American history obscures the way that American elites have worked to create and defend oligarchy. 

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• SOURCE: New York University
  10/5/2020
  

  Virtual Talk: “Confronting White Power in 2020” Feat. Ibram X. Kendi and Kathleen Belew, Monday 10/5

  Ibram X. Kendi and Kathleen Belew discuss the threat of white supremacy in a discussion moderated by Linda Gordon, Monday, October 5 at 7:00 PM Eastern.

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• SOURCE: The Intercept
  9/29/2020
  

  Unredacted FBI Document Sheds New Light on White Supremacist Infiltration of Law Enforcement

  A 2006 intelligence assessment reveals that officials had concerns about the infiltration of police departments for years but failed to warn the public. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
  9/28/2020
  

  Contested Elections can Unleash Violent White Supremacy. We have Seen it Before

  by Calvin Schermerhorn

  The 1872 election in Louisiana saw the eruption of violence as a referendum between Reconstruction and restored white supremacy. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  8/28/2020
  

  The Massacre That Emboldened White Supremacists

  by William Briggs and Jon Krakauer

  The Colfax Massacre, sparked by white supremacists' refusal to accept a state election result, set in motion a series of legal rulings that made it virtually impossible for the federal government to prosecute civil rights violations by private citizens, ensuring that mob violence and racial oppression would continue. 

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• SOURCE: Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
  8/27/2020
  

  Amazing Disgrace: Full Frontal With Samantha Bee on Confederate Monuments (video)

  The humorist examines the controversy over removing Confederate monuments and how we remember and teach history. 

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• SOURCE: Huffington Post
  8/28/2020
  

  White Vigilantes Have Always Had A Friend In Police

  American Studies scholar Nick Estes argues that the acceptance of vigilante groups by the police reflects a long history of cooperation between official law enforcement and informal groups to defend white supremacy. 

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• SOURCE: Brennan Center
  8/27/2000
  

  Hidden in Plain Sight: Racism, White Supremacy, and Far-Right Militancy in Law Enforcement

  A report from the Brennan Center for Justice documents the long history of racism in law enforcement and the lack of attention to recent FBI warnings that white supremacists groups are infiltrating law enforcement agencies. 

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• SOURCE: Tacoma News Tribune
  8/26/2020
  

  What A 1924 KKK Gathering in Tacoma Tells us about White Nationalism in the U.S. Today

  Managing director of the Tacoma Historical Society Michael Lafreniere never expected to unearth a glimpse into the Klan’s history in Washington state, and more particularly Tacoma.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  8/27/2020
  

  ‘Ax Handle Saturday’: The Klan’s Vicious Attack On Black Protesters In Florida 60 Years Ago

  Historian Clayborne Carson notes that this incident marked a shift in the nature of racist backlash during the sit-in movement.

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• SOURCE: Vanity Fair
  8/24/2020
  

  What Should A Museum Look Like In 2020?

  "A call for divestment involves an acknowledgment of the ways that museums rely on local police departments to do the work of mental health providers and emergency medical technicians, as well as the implicit ways contracts with police departments protect property over people," said MoMA curator Thomas J. Lax.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  8/23/2020
  

  The South’s Fight for White Supremacy

  by Jon Meacham

  Edward Alfred Pollard launched the "Lost Cause" mythology with an 1866 book whose legacy has endured as an emphatic defense of white supremacy.