Kathleen Belew
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Nationality | U.S.A. |
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Institutions | University of Chicago |
Website | Official website |
Kathleen Belew 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. She has also written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Daily Beast, CNN.com, and Dissent.[2][3][4]
Academic career[]
Belew graduated with a degree in the Comparative History of Ideas from University of Washington in 2005, and both a master's degree in 2008[5] and doctoral degree in 2011 in American Studies from Yale University.[6][7] She is currently an assistant professor of U.S. History at the University of Chicago, where her research focuses on race, racism, the white power movement, and militarism in twentieth-century America.[5]
Between 2011 and 2019, there were 16 high-profile attacks linked to white nationalism around the world; 175 people were killed in these attacks.[8] According to Belew: "Too many people still think of these attacks as single events, rather than interconnected actions carried out by domestic terrorists. We spend too much ink dividing them into anti-immigrant, racist, anti-Muslim or antisemitic attacks. True, they are these things. But they are also connected with one another through a broader white power ideology."[9][8]
In September 2019, Belew was a witness at a congressional hearing on confronting white nationalism.[10] In her witness statement, Belew described the "white power movement" as a "threat to our democracy", said that it was "transnational", and "connected neo-Nazis, Klansmen, skinheads, radical tax protestors, militia members, and others."[11] She advocated forming something like the 2005 Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission as a step towards a solution to the problem.[11] Congressman Jim Jordan criticized Belew for referring to fellow witness Candace Owens's characterization of congressional testimony on violent right-wing extremism as partisan and "hilarious."[10][12]
Works[]
- Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America Harvard, 2018. ISBN 9780674237698, OCLC 1059238336[13][14][15]
- "The Christchurch Massacre and the White Power Movement". Dissent. March 17, 2019.[16]
References[]
- ^ Muñoz Martinez, Monica (19 April 2019), "Kathleen Belew on the Rise of "White Power"", Public Books, retrieved 6 October 2019
- ^ "Kathleen Belew | History". The University of Chicago. Retrieved 27 April 2021.
- ^ Belew, Kathleen (August 4, 2019). "The Right Way to Understand White Nationalist Terrorism". The New York Times. Retrieved 27 April 2021.
- ^ Belew, Kathleen (March 17, 2019). "The Christchurch Massacre and the White Power Movement". Dissent Magazine.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Kathleen Belew – History – The University of Chicago". history.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 4 October 2019.
- ^ Mengist, Nathanael E (19 April 2018). "Kathleen Belew ('05) historicizes white power in the NYT! – Comparative History of Ideas – University of Washington". chid.washington.edu.
- ^ "Kathleen Belew", Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, retrieved 4 October 2019
- ^ Jump up to: a b Beckett, Lois; Wilson, Jason (4 August 2019), "'White power ideology': why El Paso is part of a growing global threat", The Guardian, retrieved 6 October 2019
- ^ Belew, Kathleen (4 August 2019), "The Right Way to Understand White Nationalist Terrorism", New York Times, retrieved 6 October 2019
- ^ Jump up to: a b Knowles, Hannah (20 September 2019), "Candace Owens clashes with fellow witness at congressional hearing on white supremacy", Washington Post, retrieved 6 October 2019
- ^ Jump up to: a b Belew, Kathleen (20 September 2019), Statement U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Oversight and Reform (PDF), pp. 2, 8, 10, retrieved 6 October 2019
- ^ C-SPAN. "Candace Owens answeres Kathleen Belew". YouTube.com.
- ^ Garcia-Navarro, Lulu (17 March 2019). "How White Supremacist Ideology Spreads". NPR.org.
- ^ Shefsky, Jay (2 May 2019). "Kathleen Belew". WTTW News. Retrieved June 9, 2019.
- ^ ""Bring the War Home": The Long History of White Power and Paramilitary Violence in the United States". Democracy Now!. 24 July 2018. Retrieved June 9, 2019.
- ^ "Scholar Kathleen Belew on New Zealand, Donald Trump and the rise of "white power"". Salon. April 2, 2019.
External links[]
- Media related to Kathleen Belew at Wikimedia Commons
- Official website
- Kathleen Belew, C-SPAN
- Why alleged New Zealand mosque killer represents a broader 'social movement', PBS, March 15, 2019
- The White Power Movement and The Christchurch Massacre, KPFA 03.19.19
- "Kathleen Belew is a specialist on the recent history of the U.S. | University of Chicago News". news.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 2019-06-09.
- Living people
- University of Washington College of Arts and Sciences alumni
- Yale University alumni
- University of Chicago faculty
- 21st-century American women writers
- 21st-century American historians
- American women historians
- Far-right politics in the United States