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? https://www.americanyawp.com/text/30-the-recent-past/#II_American_Politics_before_September_11_2001 – chapter 30 american yawp https://youtu.be/L-K19rVDxoM – crash course https://youtu.be/-rboN6F2g-k – crash course https://youtu.be/prKS4YsSnmE – crash course

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.