A field guide to white supremacy / edited by Kathleen Belew and Ramón A. Gutiérrez.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Belew, Kathleen, 1981- editor.

Gutiérrez, Ramón A., 1951- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

White supremacy movements.

Anti-racism--United States.

Anti-racism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (422 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2021]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover

A Field Guide to White Supremacy

Title

Copyright

Contents

Thoughts on the Associated Press Stylebook

Introduction

SECTION I BUILDING, PROTECTING, AND PROFITING FROM WHITENESS

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

2. A Culture of Racism

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

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

SECTION II ITERATIONS OF WHITE SUPREMACY

5. The Longest War: Rape Culture and Domestic Violence

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

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

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

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

10. On Antisemitism

SECTION III ANTI-IMMIGRANT NATION

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

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

13. The Expulsion of Immigrants: America's Deportation Machine

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

SECTION IV WHITE SUPREMACY FROM FRINGE TO MAINSTREAM

15. A Recent History of White Supremacy

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

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

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

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

Conclusion

Notes

Acknowledgments

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780520382534

0520382536

OCLC:

1236899496