{"id":653,"date":"2017-09-09T17:18:45","date_gmt":"2017-09-09T21:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/american-studies\/?p=653"},"modified":"2017-09-09T17:18:45","modified_gmt":"2017-09-09T21:18:45","slug":"call-contributors-october-2017-issue-road-charlottesville-activist-history-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/american-studies\/2017\/call-contributors-october-2017-issue-road-charlottesville-activist-history-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for Contributors for October 2017 Issue on \u201cThe Road to Charlottesville\u201d, The Activist History Review"},"content":{"rendered":"
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America\u2019s past is peppered with white supremacist figures and movements. These have often merged the language\u00a0of equality with virulent racism to undermine equality in practice. From southern resistance to Reconstruction through the breakup of Jim Crow legal segregation, white supremacists have engaged in a multitude of tactics, violent or otherwise, to enforce racial hierarchy. Despite the Civil Rights legislation of the mid-1960s, white backlash to perceived \u201cadvantages\u201d given to racial minorities crystallized in historical moments like Alabama Governor George Wallace\u2019s nearly successful 1972 Democratic primary race, the busing riots that erupted throughout the north, and the growth of neo-Nazi \u201cskinhead\u201d hate crimes. The \u201cUnite the Right\u201d rally that took place in Charlottesville, as well as the equivocation of many white conservatives in response, fits this longstanding trend.<\/p>\n

Since the 2016 election, white nationalists have been more vocal, more public, and more violent. Indeed, the term \u201calt-right,\u201d though in use by ultra-conservative groups nearly a decade ago, was vaulted into the public lexicon because of its close association with the Trump campaign. Yet as participants in the \u201cUnite the Right\u201d rally passed statues of Robert E. Lee and Thomas Jefferson, carrying torches and chanting Nazi slogans, they placed themselves as part of a much longer historical narrative.<\/p>\n

While President Donald Trump played no small role in stoking the type of racist nationalism that provoked the \u201cUnite the Right\u201d rally, the forces that gathered at Charlottesville were centuries in the making.\u00a0TAHR<\/em>\u00a0seeks essays that explore the events surrounding Charlottesville with an historical lens. Accepted articles will consider how the environment that produced the rally developed and matured.<\/p>\n

Potential topics include, but are certainly not limited to:<\/p>\n