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A Field Guide to White Supremacy
Book

A Field Guide to White Supremacy

UC Press, 2021
First Edition: 2021 more...


Editorial Rating

9

Qualities

  • Controversial
  • Eye Opening
  • Concrete Examples

Recommendation

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.

Take-Aways

  • White supremacy has pervasively influenced American institutions and individuals.
  • Blacks who migrated from the South struggled for education, jobs and housing in the North.
  • After slavery ended, states used codified white supremacy to oppress Blacks.

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.