White Supremacy

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• SOURCE: Vox
  1/14/2021
  

  What the History of the Ku Klux Klan Can Teach Us about the Capitol Riot

  Historian Linda Gordon urges readers to recognize that the Klan has always drawn from "respectable" members of white society, giving it a dangerous ability to claim to represent real American values.

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• SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
  1/21/2021
  

  Why the Mob Thought Attacking the Capitol was their ‘1776 Moment’

  by Franita Tolson

  "The pro-Trump insurrectionists seeking to replicate 1776 ignore that America has consistently recommitted itself to democracy in the two centuries since the Revolution — choosing voting over violence and ballots over bullets."

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• SOURCE: Foreign Policy
  1/18/2021
  

  Washington Must Treat White Supremacist Terrorism as a Transnational Threat

  by Joel Rubin

  A former U.S. deputy assistant secretary of state argues that the threat of far-right political violence demands a stepped-up response from law enforcement.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/15/2021
  

  In a Civil War, Accountability Must Precede Healing

  by Melody Barnes and Caroline E. Janney

  "With no consequences for their acts of rebellion, the months after Appomattox saw former Confederates regain local and state control and bend it to their purposes."

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• SOURCE: Vox
  1/15/2021
  

  White Women’s Role In White Supremacy, Explained

  Historian Stephanie Jones-Rogers and author Seyward Darby explain why the presence of women among the Capitol rioters should not be surprising. 

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• 1/17/2020
  

  Confronting "Who We Are"

  by Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson

  The Capitol riots should prompt consideration of how racism is sustained by mainstream institutions and operates through everyday patterns of thought and action, as much as in open eruptions of violence. 

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  1/14/2021
  

  The Capitol Riot Revealed the Darkest Nightmares of White Evangelical America

  by Matthew Avery Sutton

  Many observers have speculated that American evangelicals have had a transactional relationship with Donald Trump. But his messages of "American carnage" and warnings of dire consequences if he is defeated mesh perfectly with their end-times outlook and have helped tie evangelicals to the far right coalition. 

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• SOURCE: Perspectives on History
  1/12/2021
  

  Vikings, Crusaders, Confederates

  by Matthew Gabriele

  The far-right has combined a selective and outdated version of medieval history from popular culture to express values of racial superiority, aggressive masculinity and violence in defense of threatened values.

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• SOURCE: Informed Comment
  1/12/2021
  

  The Armed Accelerationists are Coming: Neo-Nazis and Boogaloo Bois Plan Another Insurrection Jan. 20

  by Juan Cole

  Far-right groups involved in the Capitol riots plan further actions as part of a strategy of "accelerationism" to create spectacular episodes of violence to polarize society.

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  1/13/2021
  

  Learning from the Failure of Reconstruction

  Isaac Chotiner interviews Eric Foner on the echoes of Reconstruction-era political violence in last week's Capitol riots. 

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• SOURCE: Reckon South
  1/12/2021
  

  Was the attack on Congress un-American? Yes and no, historians say

  Historians John Giggie and Manisha Sinha weigh in on how the Capitol riots do and don't reflect patterns of violence in American history. 

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• SOURCE: Vox
  1/8/2021
  

  Whiteness is at the Core of the Insurrection

  Historian Keisha N. Blain argues that the historic white entitlement to control government reared its head yet again on January 6. 

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• SOURCE: CNN
  1/8/2021
  

  The Striking Parallels Between the Assaults on Charlottesville and the Capitol

  by Nicole Hemmer

  The right's defense of their violent "Unite the Right" attack on Charlottesville was a precursor to their strategy in the wake of the Capitol riot: blame the left to convert riots into patriotic Americans. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  1/9/2021
  

  The American Abyss

  by Timothy Snyder

  "The responsibility for Trump’s push to overturn an election must be shared by a very large number of Republican members of Congress."

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• SOURCE: MSNBC
  1/11/2021
  

  How the Pro-Trump Mob Fits in the History of U.S. Lynching

  Kathleen Belew joins Nikole Hannah-Jones on Joy Ann Reid's show to discuss the rise of the far right movement that drove the Capitol rioting on January 6. 

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• SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
  1/8/2021
  

  ‘The Turner Diaries’ Didn’t Just Inspire The Capitol Attack. It Warns Us What Might Be Next

  Historian Kathleen Belew discusses the centrality of the 1978 novel to the far right and its possible use as a blueprint for future attacks.

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• 1/10/2021
  

  A Modern Day Lynch Mob Invaded the Capitol on January 6

  by Guy Lancaster

  When the Capitol rioters took selfies and posted their exploits on social media, they worked from the same expectation of impunity as drove participants in Jim Crow lynch mobs. 

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  1/8/2020
  

  The Capitol Riot Reveals the Dangers From the Enemy Within

  by Eric Foner

  Let’s not assume that until the Capitol riot the United States was a well-functioning democracy.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  12/14/2020
  

  Facing a First Amendment Fight, a Small Minnesota Town Allows a White Supremacist Church

  A small Minnesota town has approved the use of a church building to house a neopaganist group strongly associated with white supremacy, arguing that they would be exposed to an expensive legal action if they denied the permit. This is part of a long pattern of similar First Amendment cases. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  11/3/2020
  

  We Must Do More to Honor the People and Places Lost to Violent Racism

  by Walter Greason

  Teaching a course about collective racial violence in the United States showed a professor the extent to which this history is both integral to the nation and completely hidden from the majority of Americans.