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SOURCE: New York Times
1/26/2021
Trump Began With His ‘Great’ Wall. He Ended With It, Too
by Geraldo Cadava
His legacy will be the divisions he has sown between Americans.
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SOURCE: New York Times
1/27/2021
Lives Derailed: Notes from Migration Encounters
by Anita Isaacs and Anne Preston
"The contributions of immigrants, and the human toll of anti-immigrant policies should take center stage as we renew our national conversation on immigration."
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1/24/2021
Misremember the Alamo
by Douglas Sackman
Like most Americans, when Trump tries to "remember the Alamo," he gets it all wrong. His recent visit to Alamo, Texas was 240 miles south of the mission so holy to many Texans, but it was closer in spirit than Trump probably realized.
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SOURCE: LA Progressive
1/17/2021
Immigrants, Trump, Pope Francis, and Two Films
by Walter G. Moss
Two recent films evoke Pope Francis's message opposing insular nationalism, a stance which echoes the inclusionary nationalism of the abolitionist Frederick Douglass.
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SOURCE: Public Books
1/20/2021
Solidarity is a Process: Talking with Kelly Lytle Hernandez, Josh Kun, and Destin Jenkins
A panel of scholars discusses the concept of cross-racial solidarity and the prospects of creating powerful coalitions of the disempowered.
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SOURCE: Lowell Sun
12/31/2020
Partnership Led By UMass Lowell Preserves “Little Canada”
An undergraduate honors course in history led by Robert Forrant is developing public history markers to commemorate the Le Petit Canada neighborhood of Lowell, Massachusetts.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
12/10/2020
Immigration Cruelty Didn’t Start With Trump. Will It End Under Biden?
by Elliott Young
There is a long and ignoble history of cruelty toward immigrants in the United States, and the end of the Trump presidency will not change it by itself.
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SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
12/4/2020
French Academics Fear Becoming Scapegoats in War on Terrorism
The killing of a social studies teacher has opened French academics to accusations of supporting radical Islamists and undermining France's policy of national secularism; those who turn a critical lens to French colonialism and racism in contemporary France have received sharp criticism from nationalist and center-right politicians.
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12/6/2020
Recognizing an Unrecognized Chinese American WWII Veteran
by A.J. Wong
In December, Congress honored all Chinese American World War II veterans with the Congressional Gold Medal, and some of their families will be eligible to receive a replica medal in their names. Hoy You Lim (林開祐) was killed in action in France in 1944. None of his survivors could complete the paperwork to receive his medal. The granddaughter of another Chinese American veteran wants to recognize his service.
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SOURCE: New York Times
12/3/2020
The Trump Administration Just Made the Citizenship Test Harder. How Would You Do?
Can you ace the new test for becoming a naturalized US Citizen?
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
12/3/2020
A Lesser-Known Trump Immigration Policy Needs Biden’s Attention
by Smita Ghosh
Biden should reverse the Trump policy of using "expedited removal" to deport migrants without a hearing, which is part of a historical pattern of deportation programs that harm communities, separate families, and sometimes result in legal residents being expelled from the United States.
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SOURCE: Capital Radio
11/30/2020
Can Trump Change A Key Census Count? Supreme Court Hears His Claim
Margo Anderson says that the Trump administration's plan to exclude undocumented immigrants from the census is unprecedented in the history of the count.
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SOURCE: Public Books
11/20/2020
The Enduring Disposability Of Latinx Workers
by Natalia Molina
"For over a century, we have excused systemic inequalities, justifying them by pointing to Mexicans’ difference from 'us'."
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SOURCE: Washington Post
11/30/2020
The Country’s Oldest Chinatown is Fighting for its Life in San Francisco
Tourism to San Francisco has fallen by half since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, and tourist spending has declined even further, impacting many of Chinatown's businesses as well as its social life.
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SOURCE: New York Times
11/29/2020
Trump Looms Large Now, but Maybe Not Forever
by Steve Inskeep
NPR's Steve Inskeep reflects on the prospect that historical distance will make Trump and Trumpism smaller (and not all-consuming) parts of a story about American society struggling with bigger questions of political, economic and social equality that became increasingly contentious during the Obama era.
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SOURCE: The New Republic
11/27/2020
The Supreme Court Has to Choose Between Trump and the Nation’s Founders
by Amanda Frost
The Trump administration's efforts to exclude undocumented immigrants from the Census count is a test of whether the SCOTUS conservatives will sincerely follow originalism.
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
11/30/2020
Why New York’s Mob Mythology Endures
by Adam Gopnik
"Generally, in Mob stories, the cute bits are not real, and the real bits are not cute. Given that grim truth, there’s something to be said for just shutting your eyes and repeating the cute bits." Some new books on the Mafia unfortunately follow the pattern.
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SOURCE: New York Times
11/30/2020
128 Tricky Questions That Could Stand Between You and U.S. Citizenship
Irish Immigrant Maeve Higgins looks at the expanded civics test for naturalization, and gives it a failing grade--unless its purpose is to reduce immigration.
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SOURCE: The Guardian
11/8//2020
The Meaning of Kamala Harris: The Woman who will Break New Ground as Vice-President
Kamala Harris will be the first woman and woman of color to hold the vice presidency. Her political past offers a complicated picture of the kinds of policies she's likely to advance in that role.
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SOURCE: New York Times
10/26/2020
A Teacher, His Killer and the Failure of French Integration
The murder of a French social studies teacher who showed his multiethnic class images offensive to Islam illustrates the dilemma of the French policy of secularism, which is beset on one side by complaints that immigrants do not assimilate and on the other by rising xenophobia and racism.