White Supremacy

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• SOURCE: AL.com
  1/12/2022
  

  Alabama's Capitol is a Crime Scene, with a 120 Year Coverup

  The Alabama Capitol in Montgomery was the first seat of the Confederate government and the place where white Democrats ratified a Jim Crow constitution in 1901. You'd learn little of this by touring the museum-like building. 

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  12/17/2021
  

  America as a Tactical Gun Culture

  by Chad Kautzer

  "Vigilantism is fueled by an individualist notion of sovereignty more dangerous than any military-grade weaponry. It rejects the freedom of others as equal to one’s own and views any attempt to support such equality as tyranny."

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• SOURCE: AlterNet
  12/8/2021
  

  Thomas Zimmer: One-Party Theocratic Authoritarian Takeover is a Real Risk

  "I think the idea that Democrats could get the support of white conservative voters by focusing on governing well, by emphasizing “pocketbook issues,” underestimates the depth of the ideological struggle that we are witnessing."

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• SOURCE: WYPR
  12/8/2021
  

  Kathleen Belew on Her "Field Guide to White Supremacy"

  Belew discusses the impact of the Charlottesville civil lawsuit verdict, the ongoing prosecutions of Capitol rioters, and the ongoing problem of white supremacist, neo-Nazi and right-wing extremist organizations. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  11/30/2021
  

  The History of the "Anti-White" Victim Mantra of White Supremacy

  by Ibram X. Kendi

  '"Anti-racism is anti-white' is the old and explosive mantra of avowed white supremacists. It has been their organizing vehicle, fueling their rage, fueling their backlashes, fueling their delusions."

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  

  Kathleen Belew: The Mainstreaming of White Supremacy

  The historian discusses the normalization of far-right ideology on Ezra Klein's podcast, featuring guest host Nicole Hemmer.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  11/10/2021
  

  White Supremacists Attacked Democracy and Have Thus Far Faced No Consequences

  by Carol Anderson

  Threatening to demolish the structure of government to preserve white supremacy is a time-honored American tradition, as is escaping consequences for doing so.

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• SOURCE: Forward
  11/3/2021
  

  Lipstadt "Taken Aback" by Antisemitic Symbols at Charlottesville

  Deborah Lipstadt's testimony featured discussion of the historical content of antisemitism; her cross examination by defendant Christopher Caldwell included crass questions about Holocaust jokes.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  11/2/2021
  

  Charlottesville Civil Trial Brings Deborah Lipstadt into Court Against Hate Again

  In a 48-page report she prepared for the trial, Lipstadt wrote that “this fear of active replacement by the Jew, derived directly from the historical underpinnings of antisemitism, is a central feature of contemporary antisemitism.”

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• 10/24/2021
  

  Flying the Confederate Battle Flag in the North is a Special Sort of Disgrace

  by Daniel Koch

  Upstate New York was once the most pro-Lincoln and anti-slavery part of the Union. The growing presence of Confederate symbols there insults the region's history and contributions paid in blood for freedom. 

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  10/4/2021
  

  Searching for Descendants of Racist Terrorism

  Wilmington, North Carolina resident Tim Pinnick has partnered with the Equal Justice Initiative and numerous volunteers to try to locate every living descendant of the victims of the white supremacist coup that overthrew the city's biracial government in 1898. 

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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?”