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

Belew, Kathleen, 1981- (editor.). Gutiérrez, Ramón A., 1951- (editor.).

Summary:

"This Field Guide to White Supremacy illuminates the long and complex career of white supremacist and patriarchal violence in the United States, ranging across time and across impacted groups in order to provide a working volume for those who wish to recognize, understand, name, and oppose it. We focus here not only on the most catastrophic incidents of white supremacist domestic terrorism--like the 1995 bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building and more recent mass shootings at stores and places of worship--but also on the manifold ways that overt and covert white supremacy, supported by often-violent patriarchy and gender norms, have shaped American law, life, and policy. A field guide is meant to train observers to notice a particular phenomenon--here, white supremacy--and its distinctions. This manual will help observers to notice and name variant forms of white supremacy, ranging from systems to laws, from hate crimes to quiet indifference, from the everyday interactions that comprise white supremacist society to the movements that demand something else. A Field Guide to White Supremacy, in other words, is meant as a resource for journalists, activists, policymakers, and citizens who wish to understand the history, sociology, and rhetoric of this phenomenon. It also offers a sampling of some of the best writing and most recent scholarship on these subfields, to spark broader conversations between journalists and their readers, teachers and their students, activists and their communities." -- Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9780520382503
ISBN: 0520382501
ISBN: 9780520382527
ISBN: 0520382528
Physical Description: xvi, 402 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Publisher: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2021]
Copyright: ©2021

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Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Thoughts on the Associated Press Stylebook / Kathleen Belew et al. -- Introduction / Ramón A. Gutiérrez and Kathleen Belew -- Building, Protecting, and Profiting from Whiteness. Nation v. municipality: indigenous land recovery, settler resentment, and taxation on the Oneida reservation / Doug Kiel ; A culture of racism / Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor ; Policing the boundaries of the white republic: from slave codes to mass deportations / Juan F. Perea ; The arc of American Islamophobia: from early history through the present / Khaled A. Beydoun -- Iterations of White Supremacy. The longest war: rape culture and domestic violence / Rebecca Solnit ; The pain we still need to feel: the new lynching memorial confronts the racial terrorism that corrupted America, and still does / Jamelle Bouie ; Anti-Asian violence and U.S. imperialism / Simeon Man ; Homophobia and American nationalism: mass murder at the Pulse nightclub / Roderick Ferguson ; Wounds of white supremacy: understanding the epidemic of violence against Black and Brown trans women/femmes / Croix Saffin ; On antisemitism / Judith Butler -- Anti-Immigrant Nation. Fear of white replacement: Latina fertility, white demographic decline, and immigration reform / Leo R. Chavez ; Unmaking the nation of immigrants: how John Tanton's network of organizations transformed policy and politics / Carly Goodman ; The expulsion of immigrants: America's deportation machine / Adam Goodman ; The detention and deportation regime as a conduit of death: memorializing and mourning migrant loss / Jessica Ordaz -- White supremacy From Fringe to Mainstream. A recent history of white supremacy / Ramón A. Gutiérrez ; From Pat Buchanan to Donald Trump: the nativist turn in right-wing populism / Joseph E. Lowndes ; The alt-right in Charlottesville: how an online movement became a real-world presence / Nicole Hemmer ; The whiteness of blue lives: race in American policing / Joseph Darda ; There are no lone wolves: the white power movement at war / Kathleen Belew.