Review: A Field Guide to White Supremacy, edited by Kathleen Belew and Ramón A. Gutiérrez

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Book Review| November 01 2022 Review: A Field Guide to White Supremacy, edited by Kathleen Belew and Ramón A. Gutiérrez Kathleen Belew and Ramón A. Gutiérrez, eds. A Field Guide to White Supremacy. Oakland: University of California Press, 2021. 424 pp. Paperback $24.95. Max Felker-Kantor Max Felker-Kantor MAX FELKER-KANTOR is an assistant professor of history at Ball State University and the author of Policing Los Angeles: Race, Resistance, and the Rise of the LAPD (2018). Currently, he is finishing a book manuscript on schools, race, policing, and the D.A.R.E. program. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar California History (2022) 99 (4): 101–103. https://doi.org/10.1525/ch.2022.99.4.101 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Max Felker-Kantor; Review: A Field Guide to White Supremacy, edited by Kathleen Belew and Ramón A. Gutiérrez. California History 1 November 2022; 99 (4): 101–103. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/ch.2022.99.4.101 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentCalifornia History Search In his monumental 1944 study, An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy, the famed Swedish sociologist Gunnar Myrdal outlined the fundamental contradiction facing Americans at the end of World War II, that of the gulf between what he called the “American Creed,” the supposed commitment to ideals of democracy and equal opportunity, and the reality of racial discrimination and segregation. While many continue to see this gap between ideal and reality as an aberration from America’s democratic promise, the exceptional collection of essays in Kathleen Belew and Ramón A. Gutiérrez’s A Field Guide to White Supremacy demonstrate that the persistent failure to resolve this contradiction is deeply engrained in the country’s history and that the “American dilemma” is, perhaps, all but unresolvable within the structure of the United States as presently constituted. Indeed, as its chapters collectively demonstrate, the United States as both an idea and a... You do not currently have access to this content.