Springfield - Confronting White Supremacy

Created on January 24, 2024, 6:25 pm

Last Updated May 29, 2024, 6:09 pm

White supremacy is a racist and ethnocentric belief that White people of certain European backgrounds are superior to all other races and ethnic groups, particularly Black people and Jews. White supremacy is not just a belief, however: it is also a system of legal, governmental, and social dominance by which White people enjoy unearned privileges and power. Many White people in the United States do not consciously recognize the perks they receive from having white skin; those who deliberately choose to believe in their own superiority are known as White supremacists. To learn more about White supremacy, check out these books. Last updated April 2021.

1) Culture warlords: my journey into the dark web of white supremacy

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Lavin, Talia

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"Talia Lavin is every skinhead's worst nightmare: a loud and unapologetic Jewish woman, acerbic, smart, and profoundly antiracist, with the investigative chops to expose the tactics and ideologies of online hatemongers. Culture Warlords is the story of how Lavin, a frequent target of extremist trolls (including those at Fox News), dove into a byzantine online culture of hate and learned the intricacies of how white supremacy proliferates online. Within...

2) Sisters in hate: American women on the front lines of white nationalism

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Darby, Seyward

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"After the election of Donald J. Trump, journalist Seyward Darby went looking for the women of the so-called "alt-right" -- really just white nationalism with a new label. The mainstream media depicted the alt-right as a bastion of angry white men, but was it? As women headlined resistance to the Trump administration's bigotry and sexism, most notably at the Women's Marches, Darby wanted to know why others were joining a movement espousing racism...

3) Me and white supremacy: combat racism, change the world, and become a good ancestor

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Saad, Layla F

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"When Layla Saad began an Instagram challenge called #meandwhitesupremacy, she never predicted it would become a cultural movement. She encouraged people to own up and share their racist behaviors, big and small. She was looking for truth, and she got it... Thousands of people participated in the challenge, and over 80,000 people downloaded the supporting work Me and White Supremacy. Updated and expanded from the original edition, Me and White Supremacy...

4) Just us: an American conversation

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Rankine, Claudia

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"At home and in government, contemporary America finds itself riven by a culture war in which aggression and defensiveness alike are on the rise. It is not alone. In such partisan conditions, how can humans best approach one another across our differences? Taking the study of whiteness and white supremacy as a guiding light, Claudia Rankine explores a series of real encounters with friends and strangers - each disrupting the false comfort of spaces...

5) Everything you love will burn: inside the rebirth of white nationalism in America

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Tenold, Vegas

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Reveals how white supremacist and nationalist groups rose in influence to achieve political support at the highest levels of government, examining the transformation of once-small groups into threatening mainstream organizations.

6) How we fight white supremacy: a field guide to Black resistance

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Solomon, Akiba

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The authors talk with black organizers, artists, journalists, comedians, and filmmakers on how they fight white supremacy and what the future of resistance work might look like.

7) Hitler's American model: the United States and the making of Nazi race law

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Whitman, James Q

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"One of Foreign Affairs Best of Books 2017 – Economic, Social, and Environment / Finance" James Q. Whitman is the Ford Foundation Professor of Comparative and Foreign Law at Yale Law School. His books include Harsh Justice, The Origins of Reasonable Doubt, and The Verdict of Battle. He lives in New York City. How American race law provided a blueprint for Nazi Germany Nazism triumphed in Germany during the high era of Jim Crow laws in the United...

8) Breaking hate: confronting the new culture of extremism

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Picciolini, Christian

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"At fourteen, Christian Picciolini was recruited by a now notorious skinhead leader and encouraged to fight with the movement to "protect the white race from extinction." Soon, he had become an expert in racist ideology, a neo-Nazi terror who roamed the neighborhood, quick to throw fists. By the time he left the movement years later and was able to see clearly for the first time, Picciolini found that his life was in shambles and the nation around...

9) Wilmington's lie: the murderous coup of 1898 and the rise of white supremacy

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Zucchino, David

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"By 1898 Wilmington, North Carolina, was a shining example of a mixed-race community-a bustling port city with a thriving African American middle class and a government made up of Republicans and Populists, including black alderman, police officers, and magistrates. But across the state-and the South-white supremacist Democrats were working to reverse the advances made by former slaves and their progeny. They were plotting to take back the state legislature...

10) Life of a Klansman: a family history in white supremacy

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Ball, Edward

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"An examination of the history of the author's family and its ties to white supremacist movements."-- Provided by publisher. Sifting through family lore about "our Klansman" as well as public and private records, Ball reconstructs the story of his great-great grandfather, Constant Lecorgne. A white French Creole, father of five, and working class ship carpenter, Lecorgne had a career in white terror of notable and bloody completeness: massacres,...

11) White too long: the legacy of white supremacy in American Christianity

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Jones, Robert P

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"White Too Long draws on history, public opinion surveys, and personal experience to urge that white Christians reckon with the racism of the past and the amnesia of the present to restore a Christian identity free of the taint of white supremacy"-- Provided by publisher.

12) Stony the road: Reconstruction, white supremacy, and the rise of Jim Crow

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Gates, Henry Louis, Jr

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"A profound new rendering of the struggle by African Americans for equality after the Civil War and the violent counterrevolution that resubjugated them, as seen through the prism of the war of images and ideas that have left an enduring stain on the American mind. The story of the abolition of slavery in the aftermath of the Civil War is a familiar one, as is the civil rights revolution that transformed the nation after World War II. But the century...

13) White rage: the unspoken truth of our racial divide

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Anderson, Carol

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"As Ferguson, Missouri, erupted in August 2014, and media commentators across the ideological spectrum referred to the angry response of African Americans as 'black rage,' historian Carol Anderson wrote a remarkable op-ed in the Washington Post showing that this was, instead, 'white rage at work. With so much attention on the flames,' she writes, 'everyone had ignored the kindling.' Since 1865 and the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment, every time...