White Supremacy in the Age of Trump
SMITH COLLEGE - SWG 241-01
Visiting Associate Professor Loretta J. Ross Tues/Thurs 2:45-4:00 Spring Semester 2020
Office Hours by Appointment Only: Wright 205
E-mail: LRoss22@smith.edu or lorossta@gmail.com
HELPED are those who are enemies of their own racism; they shall live in harmony with the citizens of this world, and not with those of their ancestors, which have passed away, and which they shall never see again.
- Alice Walker (from The Gospel According to Shug, in "The Temple of My Familiar")
“White supremacy is the real white genocide.” – Mab Segrest, 2019
Is White Supremacy a permanent feature of race in contemporary U.S. society? How does one appropriately respond to its ideology and political power in the Age of Trump? This course will analyze the history, prevalence, and current manifestations of the white supremacist movement by examining ideological components, tactics and strategies, and its relationship to mainstream politics. We will also research and discuss the relationship between white supremacy and white privilege through liberal and conservative writers, and explore how to build a human rights movement (including reproductive justice) to counter the white supremacist movement in the U.S. Students will develop analytical writing and research skills, while engaging in multiple cultural perspectives. By focusing on Native American and African American experiences of white supremacy, the course will be interdisciplinary, covering social sciences, anthropology, history, geography, philosophy, political science, economics, and feminist theory. This class is an entry-level overview of the white supremacist movement in the U.S. Further study is necessary to develop more expertise. The overall goal is to develop the capacity to understand the range of possible responses to white supremacy, both its legal and extralegal forms.
Introduction to the Course, Class Introductions, Syllabus Overview, Ground Rules, Introduction to Research Sources (on Moodle); First PowerPoint: Why Study White Supremacy? (on Moodle)
Film: Jason Stanley, “If You’re Not Scared About Fascism, You Should Be,” https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/opinion/fascists-leaders-america-trump.html; “30,000 Nazis at Madison Square Garden,” https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/542499/marshall-curry-nazi-rally-madison-square-garden-1939/; William Barber Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvV7iFrKNN8; Renée Cherez, “Sixteen Words and Definitions to Kickstart Your Anti-Racism Journey, https://medium.com/@reneecherez/16-words-and-definitions-to-kickstart-your-anti-racism-journey-bd1100656b0d
Robin DiAngelo, “White People Raised to Be Racially Illiterate,” https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/white-people-are-still-raised-be-racially-illiterate-if-we-ncna906646; Justin Lee, “White Nationalism and the Therapeutics of Hate,” https://arcdigital.media/white-nationalisms-therapeutics-of-hate-ecb1bc1731ea; Mark Karlin, “Trump Uses Right-Wing Populism to Unite Divergent Groups,” https://truthout.org/articles/donald-trump-uses-right-wing-populism-to-unite-divergent-groups/; Kenneth Jones and Tema Okun, “White Supremacy Culture,” http://www.cwsworkshop.org/PARC_site_B/dr-culture.html; James Mulholland, “Things I Didn’t Know,” https://notetomywhiteself.wordpress.com/2019/05/19/things-i-didnt-know/; Jason Wilson/David Neiwert, “American Exceptionalism Has to Die,” https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/27/american-exceptionalism-has-to-die-david-neiwert-on-the-rise-of-the-far-right?utm_term=RWRpdG9yaWFsX0d1YXJkaWFuVG9kYXlVUy0xOTAxMjg%3D&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GuardianTodayUS&CMP=GTUS_email; Nick Robins-Early, “El Paso was the Latest Target of a Deadly, Global White Supremacist Movement, https://www.huffpost.com/entry/white-nationalist-el-paso-christchurch-shooting_n_5d488476e4b0ca604e36aba0?ncid=newsltushpmgtrackhateFringe%20081319%20ron%20and%20nick; Leonard Zeskind, “Standing at the Crossroads: An Analysis of Events in Charlottesville, VA,” https://www.irehr.org/2017/08/16/standing-crossroads-analysis-events-charlottesville-virginia/; Kelly J. Baker, “Make America White Again?”,
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/03/donald-trump-kkk/473190/; Eve Fairbanks, “Reasonable Rebels,” https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/08/29/conservatives-say-weve-abandoned-reason-civility-old-south-said-that-too/?arc404=true; J.P. McCabe, “Mighty White of You,” https://medium.com/embrace-race/mighty-white-of-you-3b08bd83afa5; Tim Wise, “Not Ready to Make Nice: Trump Voters and the Limits of Compassion and Civility, https://medium.com/our-human-family/not-ready-to-make-nice-d1657b7e78e6; Noah Berlatsky, “The Far Right Doesn’t Want to Beat the Left; It Wants to Exterminate It,” https://psmag.com/ideas/the-far-right-doesnt-want-to-beat-the-left-it-wants-to-eliminate-it
Bera Dunau, “Forty Years On, Death of 5 at 1979 NC Anti-Klan Rally Hit Home for Northampton,” https://www.gazettenet.com/Northampton-City-Council-Greensboro-Massacre-27753898; Emily Bazelon, “White People are Noticing Something New: Their Own Whiteness,” https://medium.com/new-york-times-magazine/white-people-are-noticing-something-new-their-own-whiteness-8b23a721c6f2; Joan Pedro-Carañana, “The Menace of Trump and the New Authoritarianism: An Interview with Henry Giroux, http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/40188-the-menace-of-trump-and-the-new-authoritarianism-an-interview-with-henry-giroux; Christopher Mathias and Ryan J. Reilly, “Over 40 People Have Been Arrested as Potential Mass Shooters Since El Paso,” https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mass-shooting-plot-arrests-el-paso_n_5d66d1eae4b063c341f9f2da?ncid=newsltushpmgtrackhateFringe+0902+nick; Tim Wise, “Forget Facts, I’ve Had Experiences,” https://medium.com/@timjwise/forget-facts-ive-had-experiences-2fb0d6d89baf; Anonymous, “What Happened After My 13-Year Old Son Joined the Alt-Right,” https://www.washingtonian.com/2019/05/05/what-happened-after-my-13-year-old-son-joined-the-alt-right/; Andrew Grant-Thomas, “Your Five-Year-Old is Already Racially Biased,” https://medium.com/embrace-race/your-5-year-old-is-already-racially-biased-heres-what-you-can-do-about-it-d72de0480ba3; Sady Doyle, “Let’s Stop Coddling White Teenage Boys,” https://www.damemagazine.com/2019/01/24/lets-stop-coddling-white-teenage-boys/;
Donald Earl Collins, “Have black historians been wrong all along?” http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2017/08/black-historians-wrong-170816071925403.html; Quinn Norton, “The White Problem (Part I),” (on Moodle); Quinn Norton, “How White People Got Made (Part II),” (on Moodle); Henry Giroux, “The Culture of Cruelty in Trump’s America,” https://truthout.org/articles/the-culture-of-cruelty-in-trump-s-america/; Kimberly Kindy, Sari Horwitz, Devlin Barrett, “How the Federal Government Ignored White Supremacist Threat,” https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/federal-government-has-long-ignored-white-supremacist-threats-critics-say/2017/09/02/bf2ed00c-8698-11e7-961d-2f373b3977ee_story.html?utm_term=.55904ab6616a; Will Carless and Michael Corey, “To Protect and Slur,” https://www.revealnews.org/article/inside-hate-groups-on-facebook-police-officers-trade-racist-memes-conspiracy-theories-and-islamophobia/; Michael Anton, “Citizenship Should Not be a Birthright,” (on Moodle); Adam Gopnick, “How the South Won the Civil War,” https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/04/08/how-the-south-won-the-civil-war (also on Moodle); James Mulholland, “White Inferiority,” https://notetomywhiteself.wordpress.com/2017/10/15/white-inferiority/; Adam Serwer, “White Nationalism’s Deep American Roots,” https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/04/adam-serwer-madison-grant-white-nationalism/583258/
2/20/2020 – NO CLASS – RALLY DAY
2/25/2020 – NO CLASS – PROFESSOR TRAVEL
Ronald Sanders, Lost Tribes and Promised Lands: The Origins of American Racism, pp. Preface to p. 64 (on Moodle); Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, pp. 1-46 (on Moodle);
Brentin Mock, “White Americans’ Hold on Wealth Unshakeable,” https://www.citylab.com/equity/2019/09/racial-wealth-gap-history-slavery-black-white-family-income/597100/; Evelyn Nakano Glenn, “Settler Colonialism as Structure: A Framework for Comparative Studies of U.S. Race and Gender Formation” http://www.asanet.org/sites/default/files/savvy/journals/SRE/Jan15SREFeature.pdf; Jesse J. Holland, “Hundreds of Black Deaths in ‘Red Summer’ of 1919 are Being Remembered, https://www.apnews.com/d7830d62a99f4cdd8f0a0d08cefb92c5; Christopher Petrella and Justin Gomer, “Not A Racist Bone in His Body: The Origins of the Default Defense Against Racism,” https://beta.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/04/11/not-racist-bone-his-body-origins-default-defense-against-racism/; Briahna Gray, “Calling Out Racist Voters is Satisfying but Comes At a Political Cost,” https://theintercept.com/2018/11/18/bernie-sanders-racist-voters/?ncid=newsltushpmgnews__TheMorningEmail__111918;
Kalefa Sanneh, “The Fight to Redefine Racism (according to Ibram X. Kendi),” https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/08/19/the-fight-to-redefine-racism
3/5/2020 – NO CLASS – PROFESSOR TRAVEL
Kwame Anthony Appiah, “People Don’t Vote for What They Want; They Vote for Who They Are,” https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/people-dont-vote-for-want-they-want-they-vote-for-who-they-are/2018/08/30/fb5b7e44-abd7-11e8-8a0c-70b618c98d3c_story.html?utm_term=.ef59cdd320ec; Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, “What White Supremacists Know,” http://bostonreview.net/race/roxanne-dunbar-ortiz-what-white-supremacists-know; Eric Ward: Skin in the Game: How Anti-Semitism Animates White Nationalism, http://www.politicalresearch.org/2017/06/29/skin-in-the-game-how-antisemitism-animates-white-nationalism/#sthash.BJ4GtiV8.dpbs; Nancy McLean, Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America: “How the Radical Right Played the Long Game and Won” (on Moodle); Mel van Elteren, “Review of Democracy in Chains,” https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jacc.12881; Jane Mayer, Dark Money Review: “Who Owns the GOP?” https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/jane-mayer-dark-money-review-koch-brothers-gop; Stephen Kantrowitz: Why White Supremacy Has Always Been Mainstream http://bostonreview.net/race/stephen-kantrowitz-white-supremacy-has-always-been-mainstream; David Neiwert, “How the Cultural Marxism Hoax Began,” https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2019/1/23/1828527/-How-the-cultural-Marxism-hoax-began-and-why-it-s-spreading-into-the-mainstream?detail=emaildkre; Devon Price, “Fox News Didn’t Steal Your Parents,” https://medium.com/@devonprice/fox-news-didnt-steal-your-parents-8b1163403f6e; Max Boot, “If This is What Conservatism Has Become, Count Me Out,” https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/if-this-is-what-conservatism-has-become-count-me-out/2018/02/25/853685c6-19bd-11e8-92c9-376b4fe57ff7_story.html?undefined=&utm_term=.795ec89b0eb8&wpisrc=nl_most&wpmm=1
3/14/2020-3/22/2020 – NO CLASS – SPRING BREAK
Ta-Nehesi Coates, Impossible to Imagine Donald Trump without Whiteness Film, https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/539754/ta-nehisi-coates-trump-first-white-president-animation/?utm_source=nl-atlantic-weekly-091517&silverid-ref=MzU3MzQ2MzM1NTM3S0; Ta-Nehesi Coates, “The First White President,” https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/10/the-first-white-president-ta-nehisi-coates/537909/; Suketa Mehta, “Immigration Panic: How the West Fell for Manufactured Rage,” https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/aug/27/immigration-panic-how-the-west-fell-for-manufactured-rage?CMP=share_btn_link; Dudley Poston and Rogelio Sáenz, “The U.S. White Majority Will Soon Disappear Forever,” https://theconversation.com/the-us-white-majority-will-soon-disappear-forever-115894?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=facebookbutton; Chauncey DeVega, “White Victimology, White Privilege…Only White People are Allowed to Be Innocent,” https://www.salon.com/2019/01/25/white-victimology-white-privilege-and-the-covington-catholic-rules-of-race/; Juliette Kayyam, “There Are No Lone Wolves,” (on Moodle)
3/26/2020 – NO CLASS – PROFESSOR TRAVEL
Louis Menand, “The Supreme Court Case that Enshrined White Supremacy into Law,” https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/02/04/the-supreme-court-case-that-enshrined-white-supremacy-in-law?utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_source=nl&utm_brand=tny&utm_mailing=TNY_Daily_012819&utm_medium=email&bxid=5be9f6343f92a40469305650&user_id=49556073&hasha=d7696af6a079f59cfcc5924a45b89864&hashb=a629c22c1b858778161803ed245e9a0075754e31&hashc=9d11db117cfc976fb34aee21e03baa7230ff54aa824790c3ff7e79645b0020a5&utm_term=TNY_Daily Coleen Butler-Sweet, “White Women’s Bad Bargain,” https://www.usnews.com/opinion/civil-wars/articles/2017-12-14/roy-moore-donald-trump-and-white-women-voting-for-misogyny; Mark Karlin, “Trump Uses Right-Wing Populism to Unite Divergent Groups,” https://truthout.org/articles/donald-trump-uses-right-wing-populism-to-unite-divergent-groups/; William E. Spriggs, “Why the White Worker Theme is Harmful,” https://prospect.org/article/why-white-worker-theme-harmful; Jon Greenburg, “10 Examples that Prove White Privilege,” https://www.yesmagazine.org/peace-justice/10-examples-that-prove-white-privilege-exists-in-every-aspect-imaginable-20170724; Charles Bethea, “A Father, A Daughter, and the Attempt to Change the Census,” https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/a-father-a-daughter-and-the-attempt-to-change-the-census
Ulrich Baer, “Free Speech and Equality on Campus,” https://www.publicbooks.org/free-speech-and-equality-on-campus/; Adam Serwer, “A Nation of Snowflakes,” https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/09/it-takes-a-nation-of-snowflakes/541050/; David Kaye, “A New Constitution for Content Moderation,” https://onezero.medium.com/a-new-constitution-for-content-moderation-6249af611bdf; Meleiza Figueroa and David Palumbo-Liu, Why Berkeley’s Battle Against White Supremacy is Not About Free Speech, https://www.thenation.com/article/why-berkeleys-battle-against-white-supremacy-is-not-about-free-speech/; Associated Press, “Tennessee Lawmaker Calls for Removal of Higher Education, https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2019/09/09/tennessee-lawmaker-kerry-roberts-calls-removal-higher-education/2269207001/; Talib Kweli Greene, “Free Speech or Die?” https://medium.com/s/story/free-speech-or-die-53a206027143; Alex Kotch, “Right-Wing Billionaires Funding Cynical Plot to Destroy Dissent and Protest in Colleges,” https://www.alternet.org/2017/03/right-wing-billionaires-are-funding-cynical-plot-destroy-dissent-and-protest-colleges/; Alycee Lane, “Black Protests and the Limits of Debating the First Amendment,” https://truthout.org/articles/black-protest-and-the-limits-of-debating-the-first-amendment/; Andy Campbell, “College Republican Group Turning Point Has a White Supremacy Problem, https://www.huffpost.com/entry/tpusa-college-republican-group-turning-point-has-a-white-supremacy-problem_n_5cd58fdbe4b0796a95dac4f6; Chauncey DeVega, “How Trump Wages Psychological Warfare,” https://www.alternet.org/2019/03/political-correctness-heres-how-trump-wages-psychological-warfare-to-elevate-his-toxic-blend-of-white-supremacy-and-fascism/; David Atkins, “How to Fix the Conservative Pundit Problem in the Age of Trump,” https://www.alternet.org/2019/08/how-to-fix-the-conservative-pundit-problem-in-the-age-of-trump/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1319&recip_id=44690&list_id=2
Charles Bethea, “A Father, A Daughter, and the Attempt to Change the Census,” https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/a-father-a-daughter-and-the-attempt-to-change-the-census; Michael E. Ruane, “Scientific Racism: A Brief History of the Phony Science that Perpetuates White Supremacy,” https://beta.washingtonpost.com/local/a-brief-history-of-the-enduring-phony-science-that-perpetuates-white-supremacy/2019/04/29/20e6aef0-5aeb-11e9-a00e-050dc7b82693_story.html; Donald Yacovone, “Textbook Racism: How Scholars Sustained White Supremacy,” https://www.chronicle.com/article/How-Scholars-Sustained-White/243053/; Jason Antrosio on Jared Diamond: Against History, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, https://livinganthropologically.com/archaeology/guns-germs-and-steel-jared-diamond/; Edward Said on Samuel Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations, https://www.mediaed.org/transcripts/Edward-Said-The-Myth-of-Clash-Civilizations-Transcript.pdf; Eric Siegel, “The Real Problem with Charles Murray and The Bell Curve, https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/voices/the-real-problem-with-charles-murray-and-the-bell-curve/; Gavin Evans, “The Unwelcome Revival of Race Science,” https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/02/the-unwelcome-revival-of-race-science; Nathan Robinson, “A Quick Reminder of Why Colonialism was Bad,” https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/09/a-quick-reminder-of-why-colonialism-was-bad; Greg Grandon, http://bostonreview.net/politics/greg-grandin-american-extremism-has-always-flowed-border?utm_source=Boston+Review+Email+Subscribers&utm_campaign=af7cfdbdf3-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_09_04_07_26_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_2cb428c5ad-af7cfdbdf3-41108837; Laurie Meckler and Kate Rabinowitz, “The Changing Face of School Integration,” https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2019/09/12/more-students-are-going-school-with-children-different-races-schools-big-cities-remain-deeply-segregated/?arc404=true
Deborah Lipstadt, Denying the Holocaust, (on Moodle); Jamelle Bouie and Rebecca Onion, “Slavery Myths Debunked,” https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2015/09/slavery-myths-seven-lies-half-truths-and-irrelevancies-people-trot-out-about-slavery-debunked.html; Jason Grainger, “Denying the Causes of the Civil War Dismantles American Pride,” https://extranewsfeed.com/denying-the-causes-of-the-american-civil-war-dismantles-american-pride-50924e4d7e2; Brandon Terry, MLK Now, http://bostonreview.net/forum/brandon-m-terry-mlk-now; Daryl Johnston, “Hate in God’s Name,” https://www.splcenter.org/20170925/hate-god%E2%80%99s-name; Brad Crella, “Hatred in God’s Name,” https://www.huffingtonpost.com/brad-crelia/hatred-in-gods-name_b_4073463.html; “White Evangelicals Who Love Trump Aren’t Confused About Why,” https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/white-evangelicals-love-trump-aren-t-confused-about-why-no-ncna1046826; Amy Sullivan, “Millions of Americans Believe God Made Trump President,”
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/01/27/millions-of-americans-believe-god-made-trump-president-216537; Kyle Mantyla, “Religious Right Leaders Defend Steve King,” http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/religious-right-leaders-defend-steve-kings-honor-demand-apology-from-house-gop-leader-mccarthy/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=rww&utm_campaign=bestof; Michael Gerson, “How Politics is Religion,” https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-left-was-about-salvation-the-right-is-about-the-end-times/2019/03/18/2cd16898-49b8-11e9-9663-00ac73f49662_story.html?utm_term=.1e3927859295&wpisrc=nl_headlines&wpmm=1; Lauren Gambino, “Jesus Never Charged a Leper a Co-Pay: The Rise of the Religious Left,” https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/may/21/christian-religious-left-william-barber-poor-peoples-campaign?CMP=share_btn_fb; Josiah Hesse, “Exvangelicals: Why More Religious People are Rejecting the Evangelical Label,” https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/03/evangelical-christians-religion-politics-trump;
J.M. Berger, Alt History, https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/09/how-the-turner-diaries-changed-white-nationalism/500039/; Christians Against Christian Nationalism, https://www.christiansagainstchristiannationalism.org/statement
Robin DiAngelo, “White Fragility,” https://libjournal.uncg.edu/ijcp/article/viewFile/249/116; Erin Monahan, “Breaking From White Solidarity,” https://medium.com/@ekmonahan/breaking-from-white-solidarity-b7f7d5d7f4e7; Lauren Michele Jackson, “What’s Missing from ‘White Fragility,’ https://slate.com/human-interest/2019/09/white-fragility-robin-diangelo-workshop.html; Linda Burnham, “Liberals, Don’t Fall into the Right’s Identity Politics Trap,” https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/10/liberals-right-identity-politics-progressive; Suzanna Danuta Walters, “In Defense of Identity Politics,” http://signsjournal.org/currents-identity-politics/walters/; Sean Illing, “White Identity Politics is About More Than Racism,” https://www.vox.com/2019/4/26/18306125/white-identity-politics-trump-racism-ashley-jardina; Suzy Hansen, “Unlearning the Myth of American Innocence,” https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/aug/08/unlearning-the-myth-of-american-innocence; John Halsted, “The Real Reason White People Say ‘All Lives Matter,’” https://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-halstead/dear-fellow-white-people-_b_11109842.html; Chauncey De Vega, “What White Liberals Get Wrong about Racism and Donald Trump,” http://citizenactivists.school/resources/bernie-is-wrong-and-malcolm-was-right-what-white-liberals-so-often-get-wrong-about-racism-and-donald-trump/; Thor Benson, “The Dirty Truth About White Liberal Racism,” https://psmag.com/ideas/the-dirty-truth-about-white-liberal-racism?fbclid=IwAR2Q2XrohVGVXP_JgDIaB250bUh5Sc9OmHCyXimTywgvsvc8c4fAHX37i0c;Cory Collins, “What is White Privilege, Really?”, https://www.tolerance.org/magazine/fall-2018/what-is-white-privilege-really; David Billings, Deep Denial (on Moodle); Sarah Menkedick, “What It Took To Finally Confront My Family About Race and Politics (on Moodle)
Anti-Defamation League, “When Women are the Enemy: The Intersection of Misogyny and White Supremacy, (on Moodle); Cynthia Miller-Idriss and Hilary Pilkington, “Women Are Joining the Far Right,” https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jan/24/women-far-right-gender-roles-radical-right-migrant-muslim?CMP=share_btn_fb; Coleen Butler-Sweet, “White Women’s Bad Bargain,” https://www.usnews.com/opinion/civil-wars/articles/2017-12-14/roy-moore-donald-trump-and-white-women-voting-for-misogyny; Glenna Gordon, “American Women of the Far Right,” https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2018/12/13/american-women-of-the-far-right/; David Neiwert, “Red-Pill Rage, https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/1/29/1830633/-A-deluge-of-red-pilled-rage-Young-white-men-are-being-radicalized-online-and-acting-out-violently?detail=emaildkre; Angie Maxwell, “Why Southern White Women Vote Against Feminism,” https://beta.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/09/10/why-southern-white-women-vote-against-feminism/; Kelly Baker on Dr. Elizabeth Gillespie McRae's Mothers of Massive Resistance: White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy, https://www.wihe.com/article-details/66/the-gender-politics-of-white-supremacy/; Elizabeth Gillespie McRae, "The Women Behind White Power,” https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/02/opinion/sunday/white-supremacy-forgot-women.html;
Loretta Ross, Demographically Doomed: White Supremacy, Electoral Power and Reproductive Justice; Tim Wise, “A Simple Fix for White Nationalist Paranoia,” https://gen.medium.com/a-simple-solution-for-white-people-afraid-of-the-great-replacement-35bf3593b50e; Alex DiBranco. Mobilizing Misogyny, https://www.politicalresearch.org/2017/03/08/mobilizing-misogyny/
Akiba Solomon, “I Assumed it was Racism, It Was Patriarchy, https://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/gender-justice/i-assumed-it-was-racism-it-was-patriarchy-20160620; Vann R. Newkirk, “The Fight for Health Care Has Always Been About Civil Rights,” https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/06/the-fight-for-health-care-is-really-all-about-civil-rights/531855/; Marissa Brostoff, “How White Nationalists Aligned Themselves with the Anti-Abortion Movement, https://beta.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/08/27/how-white-nationalists-aligned-themselves-with-antiabortion-movement/?noredirect=on; ); Chase Strangio, “To My Fellow White Others,” https://progressive.org/magazine/to-my-fellow-white-others-strangio/#.XHFPCDtOZew.facebook; Marty Wilder, “You Used to Call Me Sister: A Transman’s Perspective on Gender Critical Feminism,” (on Moodle); Amanda Marcotte, “Christian Right Groups Anti-Woman Campaigns in Other Countries, https://www.salon.com/2019/01/30/christian-right-groups-roll-out-their-radical-ant-woman-campaign-in-other-count/;
Rebecca Solnit, “Protest and Persist: Why Giving Up Hope is Not an Option,” https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/13/protest-persist-hope-trump-activism-anti-nuclear-movement; Frances Lee, “Excommunicate Me from the Church of Social Justice,” https://www.autostraddle.com/kin-aesthetics-excommunicate-me-from-the-church-of-social-justice-386640/; Cedric Johnson, “The Wages of Roediger: Why Three Decades of Whiteness Studies Has Not Produced the Left We Need, https://nonsite.org/article/the-wages-of-roediger-why-three-decades-of-whiteness-studies-has-not-produced-the-left-we-need; Naomi Klein, “Daring to Dream in the Age of Trump,” https://www.thenation.com/article/daring-to-dream-in-the-age-of-trump/; Jennifer Harvey, “I am a White Anti-Racist and Yes I Recruit,” https://medium.com/@jenharvey99/im-a-white-anti-racist-and-yes-i-recruit-e6b83825ff3c; Paul Jackson, “If You Want to Understand Anti-Fascist Movements, You Need to Know This History,” https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/anti-fascist-movements_us_599b11b8e4b04c532f4348f4; Vicky Alvear Schecter, “What Happened When a Trump Supporter Challenged Me About the Wall,” https://medium.com/s/story/what-happened-when-a-trump-supporter-challenged-me-about-the-wall-e54e86a5edd1; Rebecca Hains, “What To Do When You’re Called Racist,” (on Moodle
Robin DiAngelo, “White People Assume Niceness is the Answer,” https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jan/16/racial-inequality-niceness-white-people?utm_term=RWRpdG9yaWFsX0d1YXJkaWFuVG9kYXlVUy0xOTAxMTY%3D&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GuardianTodayUS&CMP=GTUS_email; Aaron Gell, “Antifa’s Keyboard Warriors,” https://gen.medium.com/antifas-keyboard-warriors-254f62be2a95; Melanie S. Morrison, “Becoming Trustworthy White Allies,” https://reflections.yale.edu/article/future-race/becoming-trustworthy-white-allies; Lewis Raven Wallace, “Why Media Outlets Cover Racial Reconciliation but not Racism,” https://rewire.news/article/2019/04/29/why-media-outlets-cover-racial-reconciliation-but-not-racism/; Arun Gupta, Why Young Men of Color are Joining White Supremacist Groups,” https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-young-men-of-color-are-joining-white-supremacist-groups; Arielle Newton aka Iniko, “Why ‘Privilege’ is Counter-Productive Social Justice Jargon,” http://blackyouthproject.com/privilege-counter-productive-social-justice-jargon/; Stacey Patton, “This is How to Survive White Supremacy,” https://www.damemagazine.com/2018/06/07/this-is-how-to-survive-white-supremacy/; Alicia Garza, “Our Cynicism Will Not Build a Movement; Collaboration Will,” https://mic.com/articles/166720/blm-co-founder-protesting-isnt-about-who-can-be-the-most-radical-its-about-winning#.YEcnAiLxs; Appropriate Whiteness PowerPoint (on Moodle)
White Supremacy in the Age of Trump:
Professor Loretta J. Ross Spring 2020
“History is…a race between education and catastrophe.” – HG Wells, 1920
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