Dr. William Horne Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Dr. William Horne

@MMBrussell @Andy68580664 @phoebe_suzanne @DrHistoryBrad Thank y’all for this discussion! Aimé Césaire’s Discourse on Colonialism examines the relationship btwn white supremacy & fascism, making much the same point as Andy does above abt white complicity in this process. Thinking I may dig into his argument for next week.

Dr. William Horne

I've been reading abt foodways & liberation for a while now & I can't recommend Ashanté Reese's Black Food Geographies enough. She offers both a history & structural analysis of how the vampire class weaponizes food & what we can do abt it. https://t.co/PH3QFpKPe7 https://t.co/9Ez5cywWjE

Dr. William Horne

Dr. King made exactly this point in his final book, Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? Under the banner of the Republican Party, white conservatives answered that question with conviction & certainty: chaos.

Dr. William Horne

Gorski & Perry's Flag and the Cross as well as Butler's White Evangelical Racism are good places to start on Christian nationalism & its relationship to extremist politics. And Downs' Stand by Me: The Forgotten History of Gay Liberation should be required reading rn too.

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The tactic was not only a means of land-theft, but also a form of labor theft & control. The experiences of Solomon Northup, kidnapped from freedom into slavery, is perhaps the most famous example, recently made into the movie 12 Years A Slave. https://t.co/Tj0SHTVBA7

Dr. William Horne

Rebecca Anne Goetz’s “Baptism of Early Virginia: How Christianity Created Race “ is absolutely essential reading on this topic. These were not good people & their use of Christianity shouldn’t “redeem” them (pun very intended). It actually made them worse. https://t.co/ShOJcXruyC

Dr. William Horne

But if you want a case study of how not to handle white supremacist insurgencies, read James Hogue's Uncivil War. Hogue outlines how the accommodationist & collaborationist tactics now used by Biden & Dem leadership helped destroy multiracial democracy. https://t.co/yrcJjFx438

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A sort of famous example of this is Harriet Beecher Stowe, who we tend to think of as a champion of Black liberation bc of Uncle Tom's Cabin, but overlook her betrayal of Black rights in the aftermath of emancipation. https://t.co/TV2YoGS64b. https://t.co/BKcnZB0OMF

Dr. William Horne

What if police serve essentially as instruments of a grassroots white conservative mass violence? While the technology & tactics of white supremacy have changed since Ida B. Wells wrote "Lynch Law in All its Phases," her work always raises some version of that question for me. https://t.co/tWCxGYKqsJ

Dr. William Horne

I dig into the meaning of struggle & direct action w/Prof Vincent Lloyd, whose book Black Dignity rethinks how we can enact the teachings of Black visionaries like Dr. King by taking direct action against oppression. https://t.co/sVvwu0LvbV