Nativism, White Power, & Anti-Immigrant Violence in the US
Nativism, White Power, & Anti-Immigrant Violence in the US
April 19 - 20, 2019
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Location
International House Assembly Hall, University of Chicago
Address
1414 E. 59th St. , Chicago, IL 60637
Cost
Free
Calendar
Download iCal FileA two-day conference sponsored by the Department of History & the Center for the Study of Race, Politics & Culture.
9–11a: Xenophobia, White Supremacy, and Anti-Immigrant Violence
Carly Goodman, Postdoc, American Friends Service: “How John Tanton’s Network of Organizations Spread Anti-immigrant Extremism”
Elizabeth Gillespie McRae, History, Western Carolina Univ: “White Women’s Narratives of Integration and Immigration: Supremacist or Not?”
Leo Chavez, Anthropology, UC Irvine: “Xenophobic Nightmares and Immigration Reform: Historical and Contemporary Narratives of Fear”
11:30a–1p: Immigrants and the State’s Deportation Machine
Jessica Ordaz, Ethnic Studies, UC Boulder: “Immigration, Detention, and Death: Interrogating California’s Deportation Regime”
Juan Perea, Loyola School of Law: “Deportation and Exclusion as a Defense of White Nationhood”
2–3p: Break
3–5p: The White Power Movement: Organization, Recruitment, Membership, and Visions of Alternative Futures
Joseph Lowndes, Political Science, Univ of Oregon: “From Pat Buchanan to Donald Trump: The Emergence of Populist Nativism in the GOP”
Michele White, Communication, Tulane: “How the Men’s Rights Movement and White Supremacists Appropriate the Civil Rights Movement”
Nicole Hemmer, History, Univ of Virginia: “The Alt-right in Charlottesville: How an Online Movement Became a Real-world Presence”
5–6p: Closing Session
Date posted
Apr 19, 2019
Date updated
Apr 19, 2019