Kathleen Belew

Kathleen Belew is an American tenured associate professor of history at Northwestern University, 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 (2019), and co-edited A Field Guide to White Supremacy, (2021) with Ramón A. Gutiérrez. Her forthcoming book is titled Home at the End of the World. She has also written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Daily Beast, CNN.com, and Dissent and was a CNN contributor.[2][3][4]

Kathleen Belew
Belew in 2019
Born1981-11-11
Occupation(s)Historian, professor, writer
Academic background
Alma mater
Academic work
InstitutionsNorthwestern University
Websitewww.kathleenbelew.com

Academic career

Belew graduated with a degree in the Comparative History of Ideas from University of Washington in 2005, and a master's degree in 2008[5] and doctoral degree in 2011 in American Studies from Yale University.[6][7] She was a professor of U.S. History at the University of Chicago, where she received tenure in 2021, until leaving for Northwestern University in 2022.[5] Her research focuses on race, racism, the white power movement, and militarism in twentieth-century America.[5] Some of Belew's most popular courses include The American Apocalypse, History of the Present, The American Vigilante, and Histories of Violence.

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 and other Republicans criticized Belew after she argued with a conservative witness, Candace Owens.[10][12]

Works
  • Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America Harvard, 2018. ISBN 9780674237698, OCLC 1059238336
  • Belew, Kathleen (17 May 2022). "Opinion | The Long Game of White-Power Activists Isn't Just About Violence". The New York Times.
  • Belew, Kathleen (4 August 2019). "Opinion | The Right Way to Understand White Nationalist Terrorism". The New York Times.
  • Belew, Kathleen (18 April 2018). "Opinion | The History of White Power". The New York Times.
  • Belew, Kathleen. "Perspective | Militia groups were hiding in plain sight on Jan. 6. They're still dangerous". Washington Post.

References
  1. Muñoz Martinez, Monica (19 April 2019), "Kathleen Belew on the Rise of "White Power"", Public Books, archived from the original on 20 September 2019, retrieved 6 October 2019
  2. "Kathleen Belew | History". The University of Chicago. Archived from the original on 13 April 2021. Retrieved 27 April 2021.
  3. Belew, Kathleen (August 4, 2019). "The Right Way to Understand White Nationalist Terrorism". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 27 April 2021. Retrieved 27 April 2021.
  4. Belew, Kathleen (March 17, 2019). "The Christchurch Massacre and the White Power Movement". Dissent Magazine. Archived from the original on June 20, 2019. Retrieved June 9, 2019.
  5. "Kathleen Belew – History – The University of Chicago". history.uchicago.edu. Archived from the original on 24 July 2019. Retrieved 4 October 2019.
  6. 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. Archived from the original on 30 October 2020. Retrieved 9 June 2019.
  7. "Kathleen Belew", Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, archived from the original on 11 September 2019, retrieved 4 October 2019
  8. Beckett, Lois; Wilson, Jason (4 August 2019), "'White power ideology': why El Paso is part of a growing global threat", The Guardian, archived from the original on 4 October 2019, retrieved 6 October 2019
  9. Belew, Kathleen (4 August 2019), "The Right Way to Understand White Nationalist Terrorism", New York Times, archived from the original on 13 September 2019, retrieved 6 October 2019
  10. Knowles, Hannah (20 September 2019), "Candace Owens clashes with fellow witness at congressional hearing on white supremacy", Washington Post, archived from the original on 6 October 2019, retrieved 6 October 2019
  11. Belew, Kathleen (20 September 2019), Statement U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Oversight and Reform (PDF), pp. 2, 8, 10, archived (PDF) from the original on 27 September 2019, retrieved 6 October 2019
  12. C-SPAN. "Candace Owens answeres Kathleen Belew". YouTube.com. Archived from the original on 2022-08-13.
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