A Field Guide to White Supremacy

1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-0-520-38252-7
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 424 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 146 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 556 g

Drawing explicit lines, across time and a broad spectrum of violent acts, to provide the definitive field guide for understanding and opposing white supremacy in America

Hate, racial violence, exclusion, and racist laws receive breathless media coverage, but such attention focuses on distinct events that gain our attention for twenty-four hours. The events are presented as episodic one-offs, unfortunate but uncanny exceptions perpetrated by lone wolves, extremists, or individuals suffering from mental illness—and then the news cycle moves on. If we turn to scholars and historians for background and answers, we often find their knowledge siloed in distinct academic subfields, rarely connecting current events with legal histories, nativist insurgencies, or centuries of misogynist, anti-Black, anti-Latino, anti-Asian, and xenophobic violence. But recent hateful actions are deeply connected to the past—joined not only by common perpetrators, but by the vast complex of systems, histories, ideologies, and personal beliefs that comprise white supremacy in the United States.

Gathering together a cohort of researchers and writers, A Field Guide to White Supremacy provides much-needed connections between violence present and past. This book illuminates the career of white supremacist and patriarchal violence in the United States, ranging across time and impacted groups in order to provide a working volume for those who wish to recognize, understand, name, and oppose that violence. The Field Guide is meant as an urgent resource for journalists, activists, policymakers, and citizens, illuminating common threads in white supremacist actions at every scale, from hate crimes and mass attacks to policy and law. Covering immigration, antisemitism, gendered violence, lynching, and organized domestic terrorism, the authors reveal white supremacy as a motivating force in manifold parts of American life. The book also offers a sampling of some of the most recent scholarship in this area in order to spark broader conversations between journalists and their readers, teachers and their students, and activists and their communities.

A Field Guide to White Supremacy will be an indispensable resource in paving the way for politics of alliance in resistance and renewal.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Belew, Kathleen

Gutierrez, Ramon A.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Terrorismus, Religiöser Fundamentalismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Thoughts on the Associated Press Stylebook, by Kathleen Belew et al.
Introduction, by Kathleen Belew and Ramón A. Gutiérrez

Section I Building, Protecting, and Profiting from Whiteness

1. Nation v. Municipality: Indigenous Land Recovery, Settler Resentment, and Taxation on the Oneida Reservation
Doug Kiel

2. A Culture of Racism
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

3. Policing the Boundaries of the White Republic: From Slave Codes to Mass Deportations
Juan F. Perea

4. The Arc of American Islamophobia: From Early History through the Present
Khaled A. Beydoun

Section II Iterations of White Supremacy

5. The Longest War: Rape Culture and Domestic Violence
Rebecca Solnit

6. The Pain We Still Need to Feel: The New Lynching Memorial Confronts the Racial Terrorism That Corrupted America—and Still Does
Jamelle Bouie

7. Anti-Asian Violence and U.S. Imperialism
Simeon Man

8. Homophobia and American Nationalism: Mass Murder at the Pulse Nightclub
Roderick Ferguson

9. Wounds of White Supremacy: Understanding the Epidemic of Violence against Black and Brown Trans Women/Femmes
Croix Saffin

10. On Antisemitism
Judith Butler

Section III Anti-Immigrant Nation

11. Fear of White Replacement: Latina Fertility, White Demographic Decline, and Immigration Reform
Leo R. Chavez

12. Unmaking the Nation of Immigrants: How John Tanton’s Network of Organizations Transformed Policy and Politics
Carly Goodman

13. The Expulsion of Immigrants: America’s Deportation Machine
Adam Goodman

14. The Detention and Deportation Regime as a Conduit of Death: Memorializing and Mourning Migrant Loss
Jessica Ordaz

Section IV White Supremacy from Fringe to Mainstream

15. A Recent History of White Supremacy
Ramo´n A. Gutie´rrez

16. From Pat Buchanan to Donald Trump: The Nativist Turn in Right-Wing Populism
Joseph E. Lowndes

17. The Alt-Right in Charlottesville: How an Online Movement Became a Real-World Presence
Nicole Hemmer

18. The Whiteness of Blue Lives: Race in American Policing
Joseph Darda

19. There Are No Lone Wolves: The White Power Movement at War
Kathleen Belew

Conclusion, by Kathleen Belew and Ramón A. Gutiérrez

Notes
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Kathleen Belew is a historian of the present and leading expert on the white power movement, vigilante violence, and political extremism. Her first book, Bring the War Home, has been discussed on Fresh Air, Newshour, Frontline, and in the New York Times.

Ramón A. Gutiérrez has written extensively on the history of race, gender, and sexuality in Latin American and among Latina/os in the US, offering courses on these topics at the University of Chicago.