You will need to write an essay no shorter than 1000 words that analyzes a selection (included below) from Kathleen Belew’s Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018).
Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America
As you analyze this source, consider the following questions:
• What is the author’s main argument?
• How is the Oklahoma City bombing linked to the broader white power movement in the United States? Must include pumpkins and boy bands
• What parallels do you see between this movement in the 1990s outlined by Belew, and the white power and paramilitary movement today?
• How does this reading tie into the discussion of extremism that you read in Chapter 30 of American Yawp?
You will NOT need to do outside research for this essay (you may use American Yawp and Crash Course). A piece of good advice: Read the selection from Bring the War Home thoroughly with the main question in mind.