It Can Happen Here : White Power and the Rising Threat of Genocide in the Us

Alexander Laban Hinton

ISBN 10: 1479808059 / ISBN 13: 9781479808052

Editore: New York University Press Okt 2022, 2022

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Neuware - 'If many people were shocked by Trump's 2016 election, many more were stunned when, months later, white power extremists took to the streets of Charlottesville chanting 'Blood and Soil' and 'Jews will not replace us!' Like Trump, the Charlottesville marchers were dismissed as aberrations -- the momentary appearance of 'racists' and 'haters' who didn't represent the real U.S. Rather than being exceptional, It Can Happen Here argues these events are symptoms of the country's long history of systemic white supremacy, genocide, and atrocity crimes. And there is a high likelihood that such violence will occur here again. This reality, 'It Can Happen Here' demonstrates, is a key post-mortem lesson we have learned from the 2016-2020 Trump presidency. 'It Can Happen Here' breaks new ground by raising the alarm about the on-going threat of genocide and mass violence in the U.S. as well as considering path forward for repair. Written from a public anthropology perspective, it is also the field's first book to explore contemporary white power extremism in the U.S'.

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• Titolo: It Can Happen Here : White Power and the Rising Threat of Genocide in the Us
• Editore: New York University Press Okt 2022
• Data di pubblicazione: 2022
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1479808059
• ISBN 13: 9781479808052
• Rilegatura: Taschenbuch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 226 L x 150 A x 23 P (millimetri) 226 millimetri di larghezza per 150 millimetri di altezza per 23 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 431 grammi

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A renowned expert on genocide argues that there is a real risk of violent atrocities happening in the United States

If many people were shocked by Donald Trump’s 2016 election, many more were stunned when, months later, white supremacists took to the streets of Charlottesville, Virginia, chanting “Blood and Soil” and “Jews will not replace us!” Like Trump, the Charlottesville marchers were dismissed as aberrations—crazed extremists who did not represent the real US. It Can Happen Here demonstrates that, rather than being exceptional, such white power extremism and the violent atrocities linked to it are a part of American history. And, alarmingly, they remain a very real threat to the US today.

Alexander Hinton explains how murky politics, structural racism, the promotion of American exceptionalism, and a belief that the US has have achieved a color-blind society have diverted attention from the deep roots of white supremacist violence in the US’s brutal past. Drawing on his years of research and teaching on mass violence, Hinton details the warning signs of impending genocide and atrocity crimes, the tools used by ideologues to fan the flames of hate, the origins of the far-right extremist ideas of white genocide and replacement, and the shocking ways in which “us” versus “them” violence is supported by racist institutions and policies.

It Can Happen Here is an essential new assessment of the dangers of contemporary white power extremism in the United States. While revealing the threat of genocide and atrocity crimes that loom over the country, Hinton offers actions we can take to prevent it from happening, illuminating a hopeful path forward for a nation in crisis.

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Alex Labar Hinton is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, Founder and Director of the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights, and UNESCO Chair on Genocide Prevention at Rutgers University, and the author of over a dozen books, including the award-winning Why Did They Kill?: Cambodia in the Shadow of Genocide.