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Center for the Humanities Lecture: “Tracing the History of a Toxic Present: Resurgent Antisemitism and White Nationalism in the U.S.”
April 6, 2021 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Tracing the History of a Toxic Present: Resurgent Antisemitism and White Nationalism in the U.S.
Alexandra Minna Stern, Carroll Smith-Rosenberg Collegiate Professor of American Culture, History, and Women’s Studies and Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Michigan
Tuesday, April 6th, 2021 | 4:00–5:30pm CT
Antisemitism sits at the core of the 21st-century resurgence of white nationalism in the U.S. This lecture from Professor Alexandra Minna Stern explores the recent history of the far right, showing how antisemitism is inextricably linked to xenophobia, misogyny, Islamophobia, and transphobia. More information on the event is available from the Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies.
Warning: The powerpoint for this lecture includes disturbing and hateful images and memes, which proliferate on social media, are catalysts for far right radicalization, and require analysis and decoding.
Please register in advance: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0pf-6upjMiGNGUVN-ChA9FeSirz8aGmjsF
Made possible by support from the Wiseman Fund. Co-sponsored by the Department of History, the Department of Sociology, the George L. Mosse Program in History, the Center for the Humanities, and the Havens Wright Center for Social Justice.
Alexandra Minna Stern is the Carroll Smith-Rosenberg Collegiate Professor of American Culture, History, and Women’s Studies and Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Michigan. Most of her research has focused on the uses and misuses of genetics in the United States and Latin America. Stern’s most recent book, Proud Boys and the White Ethnostate: How the Alt-Right is Warping the American Imagination (Beacon Press, 2019), applies the lenses of historical analysis, feminist studies, and critical race studies to deconstruct the core ideas of the far right and white nationalism in the United States. Her other books include the award-winning Eugenic Nation: Faults and Frontiers of Better Breeding in Modern America (University of California Press, 2015, 2nd ed.) and Telling Genes: The Story of Genetic Counseling in America (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012).
