Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America

The white power movement in America wants a revolution. Its soldiers are not lone wolves but highly organized cadres motivated by a coherent and deeply troubling worldview made up of white supremacy and apocalyptic faith. In this talk, Kathleen Belew presents the history of a movement that consolidated in the 1970s and 1980s around a potent sense of betrayal in the Vietnam War; made tragic headlines in Waco, Ruby Ridge, and Oklahoma City; and was resurgent under President Trump.

Read more here: https://news.uchicago.edu/story/history-white-power-movement

Part of the UChicago Alumni and Friends Harper Lecture Winter 2021 Series. Originally broadcast on February 24, 2021.

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