#190 American Militias w/ Amy Cooter
The Road to Now
Benjamin Sawyer
4.8 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 8 February 2021
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Bob and Ben talk with Dr. Amy Cooter, a sociologist at Vanderbilt University whose research examines American militias. Amy shares what she's learned in the hundreds of hours she's spent interviewing American militia members, how it can help us moving forward, and how different "nostalgic groups" have mobilized to defend their vision of America. She also helps us understand how Ruby Ridge, Waco and other moments in the 1990s relate to the more recent rise of domestic terrorism, and how listening can be an effective strategy in the struggle against extremism.
Dr. Amy Cooter is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Vanderbilt University, where her teaching and research interests include race & ethnicity, masculinity, nationalism and crime & deviance. You can read her dissertation and learn more about her work on her website, AmyCooter.com, and follow her on twitter at @AmyCooter.
This episode was edited by Gary Fletcher.
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| 1:42.4 | Dr. Amy Cooter, welcome to The Road to Now. |
| 1:48.3 | Thank you for having me. |
| 1:50.1 | For the past year or so, I have, and I think many other historians or just citizens, have looked to history to find parallels to the moment that we're in. We think about the |
| 2:02.5 | 1850s and the 1860s, obviously the chaotic nature of those times, the late 1960s with the |
| 2:09.7 | assassinations of Robert F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King. But history doesn't really repeat itself exactly, right? |
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