Kristin Gustafson publishes article on white supremacist coup

The Conversation published an article co-authored by IAS faculty member Kristin Gustafson and Kathy Roberts Forde comparing the 1898 Wilmington coup and the 2021 U.S. Capitol siege for its politics/election section. “A white supremacist coup succeeded in 1898 North Carolina, led by lying politicians and racist newspapers that amplified their lies” builds on Journalism & Jim Crow: The Making of White Supremacy in the New South, which comes out later this year, and Gustafson’s chapter about the North Carolina case. The book, edited by Forde and Sid Bedingfield, addresses the white press as a political actor during Reconstruction’s social, cultural, and economic change.