OY! Professor Kathleen Belew on Lawrence Show:
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Professor Kathleen Belew on Lawrence Show:
is an assistant professor of history at the University of Chicago and an international authority on the white-power movement.[1] She is the author of Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America (2018), and the forthcoming books Home, at the End of the World: A History of the Present and A Field Guide to the History of Hate, co-written with Ramón A. Gutiérrez. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen_Belew
She specializes in the history of the present. She spent ten years researching and writing her first book, Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America (Harvard, 2018, paperback 2019). In it, she explores how white power activists created a social movement through a common story about betrayal by the government, war, and its weapons, uniforms, and technologies. By uniting Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazi, skinhead, and other groups, the movement mobilized and carried out escalating acts of violence that reached a crescendo in the 1995 bombing of Oklahoma City. This movement was never adequately confronted, and remains a threat to American democracy.
Her next book, Home at the End of the World illuminates our era of apocalypse through a history focused on her native Colorado where, in the 1990s, high-profile kidnappings and murders, right-wing religious ideology, and a mass shooting exposed rents in America’s social fabric, and dramatically changed our relationship with place, violence, and politics (Random House).
https://www.kathleenbelew.com/