White Supremacy

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  8/28/2020
  

  The Massacre That Emboldened White Supremacists

  by William Briggs and Jon Krakauer

  The Colfax Massacre, sparked by white supremacists' refusal to accept a state election result, set in motion a series of legal rulings that made it virtually impossible for the federal government to prosecute civil rights violations by private citizens, ensuring that mob violence and racial oppression would continue. 

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• SOURCE: Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
  8/27/2020
  

  Amazing Disgrace: Full Frontal With Samantha Bee on Confederate Monuments (video)

  The humorist examines the controversy over removing Confederate monuments and how we remember and teach history. 

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• SOURCE: Huffington Post
  8/28/2020
  

  White Vigilantes Have Always Had A Friend In Police

  American Studies scholar Nick Estes argues that the acceptance of vigilante groups by the police reflects a long history of cooperation between official law enforcement and informal groups to defend white supremacy. 

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• SOURCE: Brennan Center
  8/27/2000
  

  Hidden in Plain Sight: Racism, White Supremacy, and Far-Right Militancy in Law Enforcement

  A report from the Brennan Center for Justice documents the long history of racism in law enforcement and the lack of attention to recent FBI warnings that white supremacists groups are infiltrating law enforcement agencies. 

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• SOURCE: Tacoma News Tribune
  8/26/2020
  

  What A 1924 KKK Gathering in Tacoma Tells us about White Nationalism in the U.S. Today

  Managing director of the Tacoma Historical Society Michael Lafreniere never expected to unearth a glimpse into the Klan’s history in Washington state, and more particularly Tacoma.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  8/27/2020
  

  ‘Ax Handle Saturday’: The Klan’s Vicious Attack On Black Protesters In Florida 60 Years Ago

  Historian Clayborne Carson notes that this incident marked a shift in the nature of racist backlash during the sit-in movement.

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• SOURCE: Vanity Fair
  8/24/2020
  

  What Should A Museum Look Like In 2020?

  "A call for divestment involves an acknowledgment of the ways that museums rely on local police departments to do the work of mental health providers and emergency medical technicians, as well as the implicit ways contracts with police departments protect property over people," said MoMA curator Thomas J. Lax.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  8/23/2020
  

  The South’s Fight for White Supremacy

  by Jon Meacham

  Edward Alfred Pollard launched the "Lost Cause" mythology with an 1866 book whose legacy has endured as an emphatic defense of white supremacy.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  8/3/2020
  

  How White Supremacy Infected Christianity and the Republican Party

  Columnist Jennifer Rubin discusses the findings of Robert P. Jones of the Public Religion Research Institute, presented in his new book, that elements of evangelical theology are strongly supportive of hierarchy and inequality. 

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• SOURCE: The Abusable Past
  7/28/2020
  

  J.K. Rowling and the White Supremacist History of “Biological Sex”

  by Kevin Henderson

  Undeniably, the present coherence of “biological sex” is an effect of 19th century scientific racism and discourses of white supremacy.

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• SOURCE: CNN
  7/26/2020
  

  Why Portland? The City's History of Protest Takes an Exceptional Turn

  The "Portlandia" image -- of 1990s slackers driven by liberal ingenuity -- isn't entirely true to the city's history, says former professor Randy Blazak.

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• SOURCE: New York Daily News
  7/19/2020
  

  Petition Calls for Selma Bridge To Be Named After John Lewis

  Advocates for the name change include filmmaker Ava DuVernay and South Carolina Rep. Jim Clyburn.

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• SOURCE: CBS News
  7/12/2020
  

  The History and Future of Confederate Monuments

  As debate over the takedown of Confederate monuments continues, historian Julian Hayter examines why and when the statues went up in the first place.

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• SOURCE: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
  7/11/2020
  

  As Monuments Tumble, Are We ‘Erasing’ History? Historians Say No

  ‘Monuments do a very poor job in talking about history,’ says history professor Hillary Green.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  7/9/2020
  

  Campaign Urges NASA to Rename the John C. Stennis Space Center

  The center, in Mississippi, is named for a former senator who opposed civil rights legislation and the Supreme Court ruling that desegregated the nation’s public schools.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  7/1/2020
  

  White Supremacist Ideas Have Historical Roots In U.S. Christianity

  At an earlier point in American history, some Christian theologians went so far as to argue that the enslavement of human beings was justifiable from a biblical point of view.

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• SOURCE: Hattiesburg American
  7/2/2020
  

  Confederate Monument in Mississippi City Pays Tribute to Past that Never Was

  by William Sturkey

  That monument does not deserve its place of reverence. It never did. And it’s never too late to tell the truth.

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• SOURCE: TIME
  7/1/2020
  

  The 1898 Wilmington Massacre Is an Essential Lesson in How State Violence Has Targeted Black Americans

  by David Zucchino

  The coup was the natural outgrowth of North Carolina’s – and America’s – long history of relying on white police to perpetuate white supremacy amid fears of Black uprisings.

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• SOURCE: WBUR
  7/1/2020
  

  Mount Rushmore Historian: Monument 'Is Like A Rorschach, It Says Different Things To Different People'

  In light of Trump's plans to hold a July 4th celebration at Mount Rushmore on Friday, historian John Taliaferro discusses the monument's complex legacy.

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  6/30/2020
  

  The Confederates Loved America, and They’re Still Defining What Patriotism Means

  by Richard Kreitner

  For most of U.S. history, patriotism and white supremacy, the values supposedly embodied by the two flags, have hardly been at odds. Rather, they have been mutually constitutive and disturbingly aligned.