Kathleen Belew

Kathleen Belew is a research fellow at Stanford University,[1] "an assistant professor of history at the University of Chicago and an international authority on the white-power movement."[2] She has written a book: Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America (2018).

Kathleen Belew
Belew in 2019
NationalityU.S.A.
Academic background
Alma mater
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of Chicago
WebsiteOfficial website

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[3] and doctoral degree in 2011 in American Studies from Yale University.[4][5] She is currently an assistant professor of "U.S. History and the College" at the University of Chicago.[3] Her "teaching centers on the broad themes of race, gender, violence, identity, and the meaning of war."[5] She is currently on research leave studying "gun violence and the history of the 1990s."[3]

Between 2011 and 2019, there were 16 high-profile attacks linked to white nationalism around the world; 175 people were killed in these attacks.[6] 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."[7][6]

In September 2019, Belew was a witness at a congressional hearing on confronting white nationalism.[8] 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."[9] She advocated forming something like the 2005 Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission as a step towards a solution to the problem.[9] Congressman Jim Jordan criticized Belew for refuting fellow witness Candace Owens's characterization of congressional testimony on violent right-wing extremism as partisan and "hilarious." [8][10]

Works
  • Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America Harvard, 2018. ISBN 9780674237698, OCLC 1059238336[11][12][13]
  • "The Christchurch Massacre and the White Power Movement". Dissent. March 17, 2019.[14]

References
  1. Touchberry, Ramsey (20 September 2019), "At White Supremacy Hearing, Candace Owens Says Black on Black Crime, Lack of Masculinity Are the Real Issues", Newsweek, retrieved 6 October 2019
  2. Muñoz Martinez, Monica (19 April 2019), "Kathleen Belew on the Rise of "White Power"", Public Books, retrieved 6 October 2019
  3. "Kathleen Belew – History – The University of Chicago". history.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 4 October 2019.
  4. 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.
  5. "Kathleen Belew", Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, retrieved 4 October 2019
  6. 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
  7. Belew, Kathleen (4 August 2019), "The Right Way to Understand White Nationalist Terrorism", New York Times, retrieved 6 October 2019
  8. Knowles, Hannah (20 September 2019), "Candace Owens clashes with fellow witness at congressional hearing on white supremacy", Washington Post, retrieved 6 October 2019
  9. 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
  10. C-SPAN. "Candace Owens answeres Kathleen Belew". YouTube.com.
  11. Garcia-Navarro, Lulu (17 March 2019). "How White Supremacist Ideology Spreads". NPR.org.
  12. Shefsky, Jay (2 May 2019). "Kathleen Belew". WTTW News. Retrieved June 9, 2019.
  13. ""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.
  14. "Scholar Kathleen Belew on New Zealand, Donald Trump and the rise of "white power"". Salon. April 2, 2019.
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