White Supremacy

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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."

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• SOURCE: NPR
  5/16/2022
  

  Kathleen Belew: Buffalo Massacre Likely Driven by "Great Replacement" Myth

  "A man accused of killing 10 people in Buffalo, New York was allegedly motivated by a racist doctrine known as 'replacement theory.' It's just a new name for an old set of racial hatreds, Kathleen Belew told NPR."

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  5/17/2022
  

  Buffalo Shooting Exposes How History Shapes the Present

  by Chad Williams

  "Buffalo’s unique history of African American freedom, civil rights struggle and perseverance in the face of structural racism and economic neglect remind us of why Gendron targeted this particular community and why this shooting is especially heinous."

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  5/16/2022
  

  Buffalo Shooting Reflects Deeply Rooted American Ideas

  by Jesse Curtis

  Labeling the so-called "Great Replacement" a conspiracy theory obscures how closely it hews to commonplace American ideas about race, nation, and who is entitled to rule. 

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  5/15/2022
  

  Buffalo Mass Shooting Demands We Think About American Racism

  by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

  The gunman's manifesto shows the dangerous convergence on the right of anti-Black racism and a belief in white persecution. It also shows why the right is working so hard to fight teaching about racism in history classes. 

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• SOURCE: PBS News Hour
  3/19/2022
  

  Will Alabama Expunge White Supremacist Language that Remains in its Constitution?

  Alabama's 1901 constitution was written expressly to enshrine white supremacy. Voters will have the chance to approve changes to its language by a ballot referendum this fall. 

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• SOURCE: Oregon Public Broadcasting
  3/14/2022
  

  How the KKK Sowed White Supremacy in Oregon in the 1920s

  Both racist and anti-Catholic bigotry fed the rise of the Klan as a power in Oregon's politics in the early 20th century, with an estimated 50 chapters and 58,000 members.