A Field Guide to White Supremacy by Kathleen Belew and Ramon Gutierrez
Professors Kathleen Belew and Ramón A. Gutiérrez report that the racist belief in the racial superiority of white people is more than a vestige of the slavery era. The current white supremacist threat manifested on January 6, 2021, when followers of a growing white power movement rioted at the US Capitol to disrupt the certification of the presidential election. This history anthology, which clarifies how white supremacy infects the United States, provides a guide to the growing danger it presents as the white percentage of the nation’s population is on the path to becoming a minority, not a majority.The book is a collection of essays by various scholars and experts who examine the history, sociology, and rhetoric of white supremacy in the United States. The book aims to provide a comprehensive and critical guide for understanding and opposing the diverse and interconnected forms of white supremacist and patriarchal violence that have shaped American law, life, and policy. The book covers topics such as indigenous land recovery, anti-Black lynching, anti-Asian violence, antisemitism, anti-immigrant nativism, gendered violence, policing, domestic terrorism, and online radicalization. The book also introduces a new theory of learning, called the Affective Context Model, which argues that emotions are the key drivers of learning and that we learn best when we are emotionally connected to the topic. The book proposes a practical framework, called the 5Di model, for designing education and training that works to improve performance and counter white supremacy. The book is meant as a resource for journalists, activists, policymakers, and citizens who wish to recognize, name, and challenge white supremacy in its various manifestations.
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