Kathleen Belew and Ramon Gutierrez
A Field Guide to White Supremacy
UC Press, 2021
What's inside?
White supremacy shaped US history and may take more militant forms in the future.
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Professors Kathleen Belew and Ramón A. Gutiérrez report that the racist belief in the racial superiority of white people is more than a vestige of the slavery era. The current white supremacist threat manifested on January 6, 2021, when followers of a growing white power movement rioted at the US Capitol to disrupt the certification of the presidential election. This history anthology, which clarifies how white supremacy affects the United States, provides a guide to the growing danger it presents.
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About the Authors
Kathleen Belew, assistant professor of history at the University of Chicago, also wrote Bring the War Home. Ramón A. Gutiérrez, the Preston & Sterling Morton Distinguished Service Professor of US History at the University of Chicago, also wrote When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away.
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