September 24, 2019, Tuesday - Kathleen Belew - White Power and Paramilitary America at

Time: 11:30a

Location: Westminster Town Hall Forum, 1200 Marquette Ave

Kathleen Belew - White Power and Paramilitary America

Kathleen Belew is Assistant Professor of History at The University of Chicago where her teaching and research focus on militarization, violence, racism, and identity in 20th-century America. Her recent book, "Bring the War Home," explores white power activism from its roots in the Vietnam War to its collaboration with neo-Naxi, Ku Klux Klan, skinhead, and militia movements. She has been featured on Fresh Air, Weekend Edition, CBS, and the Frontline program Documenting Hate. A graduate of the University of Washington with a degree in the history of ideas, she earned an MPhil and PhD in American studies from Yale University. She is currently a research fellow at the Center for the Advanced Study of the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.

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