Researchers of color who study extremism say recent hate-motivated attacks show why their voices are needed to understand and combat far-right violence.
and evidence for the congressional hearings into last year’s storming of the U.S. Capitol. The Jan. 6 attack and others since have renewed attention on domestic terrorism, meaning experts are in demand as speakers, TV pundits and podcast guests.All of that is why researchers of color say it’s a problem that their voices are typically missing or muted. It’s not just a question of justice and representation — but also one of national security.
, tied to particularly bloody attacks such as the 2015 massacre of Black churchgoers in Charleston, S.C., or the deadly mass shooting of Latinos at a Walmart in El Paso, Tex., in 2019.In interviews with researchers of color, common complaints emerged: Labels like “racially motivated violent extremism” that mask the specific anti-Blackness of some attacks. Cyclical, attack-driven attention to a constant threat.
“The people who are most directly impacted by the harm should have the leading voice in helping to identify what the harms are, what the dangers are, what the contested spaces are, and what solutions would be helpful,” said Hewitt, who is Black. In the study of far-right violence, however, there’s a trend toward empathy for White militants, with a disproportionate focus on mental health and “economic anxiety,” according to Dave, Jereza and others.
“Most of the folks of color who got hired to do this work were either hired to do administrative or operational sides,” Ward said. “But those aren’t really the areas anyone celebrates or funds or pays attention to.”Think tanks and universities recognize the issue and some have begun to address it, such as by creating peer-support programs and fellowships that serve as pipelines for young researchers of color to build expertise.
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