White Supremacy

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• SOURCE: MSNBC
  4/17/2021
  

  GOP's New 'America First Caucus' Follows in some Blatantly White Nationalist Footsteps

  by Kevin M. Kruse

  The 1920s saw American nativists invoke the purity of "Anglo Saxon" heritage as a justification for restricting immigration outside of western Europe and other measures that inspired the racial dictatorship of Nazism. It needs to be made clear where this "America First" movement can lead. 

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• 3/21/2021
  

  White Terrorism: From Post-Civil-War Lynchings to the Present

  by Walter G. Moss

  The Capitol riots of January 6 echoed elements of mob lynchings in the participants' binary us/them view of society, a conservative white Protestant religious culture, and a willingness to accept rumor and conspiracy as justifications for their actions.

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  3/16/2021
  

  The Post-Trump Crack-Up of the Evangelical Community

  Anthea Butler and Kristin Kobes Du Mez offer insight into how racial double standards within evangelical religion and the willingness of "insider" historians to craft a selective picture of evangelical political action has made it difficult to understand how many of today's evangelical leaders have made peace with (or even embraced) white supremacy.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  3/4/2021
  

  What the Policing Response to the KKK in the 1960s Can Teach about Dismantling White Supremacist Groups Today

  by David Cunningham

  If history is a guide, providing police with new tools to address current white nationalist threats could result in further repression of activists of color.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  2/26/2021
  

  America’s Political Roots Are in Eutaw, Alabama

  "The terror campaign of 1870 ended the promise of Alabama’s brief Reconstruction era, allowing the so-called Redeemers to pry Alabama from the hands of reform. This was the critical juncture that led to the way things are."

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• SOURCE: Virginian-Pilot
  3/1/2021
  

  How a Wave of Segregationist Tributes, from Streets to Schools, Entrenched the Idea of White Supremacy

  Understanding the stakes of renaming public buildings, streets, or schools requires understanding the purposeful politics that attached the names of Confederates to public spaces a century ago, say Virginia historians Dan Margolies and Calvin Pearson.

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  2/22/2021
  

  The 150-Year Prosecution of White Supremacy

  Merrick Garland's answers to quesitons about domestic right-wing extremism show that he understands the through-line connecting post-Reconstruction racist terrorism, the 1990s militia movement, and the groups present at the US Capitol on January 6. It remains to be seen if he will have the support he needs to follow through on his pledge to prosecute them.

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• SOURCE: Atlanta Journal-Constitution
  2/23/2021
  

  Historical Markers About Notable Black Georgians Shot, Vandalized

  Markers in South Georgia paid tribute to Jackie Robinson and lynching victim Mary Turner.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/18/2021
  

  The 150-Year-Old Ku Klux Klan Act Being Used Against Trump In Capitol Attack

  Ulysses S. Grant championed legislation to apply the power of the federal government against armed conspiracies to prevent the exercise of the vote. A Mississippi Congressman is now suing Donald Trump and Rudy Giuliani under a provision of the law that allows victims to file civil lawsuits against conspirators.

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• SOURCE: ArcDigital
  2/11/2021
  

  Phrenology Is Here To Stay

  by Courtney E. Thompson

  Liberal journalists have treated present-day exponents of phrenology as kooks. This is a dangerous dismissal of phrenology's origins among the 19th century intellectual elite which encourages false security that today's science is insulated from social currents of racism, sexism, or other power politics. 

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• SOURCE: Mother Jones
  2/4/2021
  

  How to Teach History in a Community Still Reckoning With Its Past

  "For the African American community, it was still this large, looming scar, and the white community literally didn’t even know what had happened. It had just been erased. There was this disconnect in the community."

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• SOURCE: Daily Kos
  2/13/2021
  

  Assassination, Secession, Insurrection: The Crimes of John Wilkes Booth, Jefferson Davis, and Trump

  The use of force to thwart democracy is a thread connecting Confederate secession, Booth's assassination of Lincoln, and the Capitol riots against the certification of Trump's electoral defeat. 

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• SOURCE: CNN
  2/5/2021
  

  What Kyle Rittenhouse's Fate Reveals about Law and Order

  by Nicole Hemmer

  Historically, white vigilantism, especially against the demands of minorities for civil and economic equality, has been a key component of the politics of "law and order."

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• 2/7/2021
  

  Weaponized Whiteness: Invisible Hand and Iron Fist

  by Fran Shor

  There is a link between the summer's BLM protests and the Capitol riots. Both reflect a crisis of a political order based on the maintenance of white supremacy and nonwhite subordination through the "invisible hand" of institutions. 

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• SOURCE: Public Books
  2/2/2021
  

  Museums as Monuments to White Supremacy

  by Ana Lucia Araujo

  Recent protest and scholarship have highlighted the knowledge of major cultural institutions that artifacts in their collections were looted from Africa and other colonized places, and support calls to repatriate the artifacts. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  1/30/2021
  

  Only Accountability Will Allow the U.S. to Move Forward

  by Mitch Landrieu

  Full accountability for the Capitol Riot is essential lest white supremacists and other extremists take the lesson that their actions are accepted and permitted. The white supremacist massacres of the post-Reconstruction period show that moving on without accountability is impossible. 

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  1/25/2020
  

  Strange Costumes of Capitol Rioters Echo the Early Days of the Ku Klux Klan - Before the White Sheets

  by Kenneth Ladenburg

  "Although costumes cannot tell us the entire story of a group or movement, they can provide a window into understanding how the groups and movements form and how their ideologies are spread."

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  1/26/2021
  

  Lone Wolves Connected Online: A History of Modern White Supremacy

  Forty years ago, Louis Beam had the idea of using the internet to drive a movement. Today, his vision is disturbingly prevalent.

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• SOURCE: Africa Is A Country
  1/20/2021
  

  Reflections On An Imploding Empire

  by Russell Rickford

  Progressive dissidents must meet the moment of Biden's inauguration by not settling for what liberal politicians offer on economic justice, human rights, environment, labor, and health. 

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• SOURCE: Mother Jones
  

  We’ve Had a White Supremacist Coup Before. History Buried It

  LeRae Sikes Umfleet's 2009 book explored the 1898 Wilmington insurrection and showed “how people could get murdered in the streets and no one held accountable for it.”