She carries her home in her WhatsApp photo. The house, or her childhood. The thing is, she has a selfie where you can see, in the background, the place where she grew up, a suburb of Denver, in Colorado. Today she lives a 15-hour drive from that photograph, in Chicago, where she teaches history at Northwestern University and where she has established herself as one of the great experts on the white power movement. Her book Bring the War Home (Capitán Swing) was in the proofreading phase when a white supremacist rally caused serious incidents in Charlottesville, Virginia. Those racist slogans have returned to occupy the political center, and the book is a good example to understand who these groups are and how they hope to shape the United States.

Sometimes a single image is capable of condensing the spirit of an era. In this case, the photograph by Cheney Orr, from the Reuters agency, showing a young black girl surrounded by white supremacists with their faces covered in a subway car, perfectly captures what it means to belong to a minority in the midst of Trumpism. Furthermore, the fact that the image was captured during the celebrations in Washington of the 250th anniversary of the United States' independence gives it even more value, because it shows that, a quarter of a millennium later, what was once the world's most advanced democratic experiment has still not resolved what has always been its pending subject: the real equality of all human beings, regardless of their race, gender, or religion.