Yale University
Urban
Ethnography
Project
Victims of the Enlightenment: Civic Nationalism and White Supremacy in the South, 1965 to Present
Professor of History and Chair Howard University
This paper looks at how white supremacists in the South responded to the liberał racial order imposed by the central state as a result of the Civil Rights Movement. It follows white supremacists ideologies and movements in the South from the early 1960s to present, including the Obama era. It argues that liberalism—as embodied in the Republican Southern strategy—embraced racism yet enervated the white supremacy movement until the election of black president.
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