Ilhan Omar

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  July 20, 2019
  

  ‘Send her back!’: Trump, Ilhan Omar and the complicated history of back to Africa

  The complicated history of the back to Africa movement in connection with President Trump.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  July 19, 2019
  

  The History Of Dissent In American Political Life

  In light of President Trump's comments about four freshmen lawmakers, NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Harvard Professor Khalil Muhammad about the history of dissent in American political life.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  7/18/19
  

  What Americans Do Now Will Define Us Forever

  by Adam Serwer

  "I want to be very clear about what the country saw last night, as an American president incited a chant of “Send her back!” aimed at a Somali-born member of Congress: America has not been here before."

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  7/15/19
  

  Trump’s America Is a ‘White Man’s Country’

  by Jamelle Bouie

  His racist idea of citizenship is an old one, brought back from the margins of American politics.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/18/19
  

  Citizenship once meant whiteness. Here’s how that changed.

  by Ariela Gross and Alejandro de la Fuente

  Free people of color challenged racial citizenship from the start.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  4/16/19
  

  Why Trump Won’t Stop Talking About Ilhan Omar

  by Jamelle Bouie

  The president is following a Republican playbook that is now nearly two decades old.

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• 4/14/19
  

  Ilhan Omar is a Reconstruction Reformer

  by William Horne

  The failure to hold the race-baiting press, politicians, and vigilantes responsible during Reconstruction undermined any semblance of equality for more than 100 years. We can't make the same mistake. 

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• SOURCE: Informed Comment
  3/11/19
  

  America’s Long History of Hysteria about Women’s Veils: Jeanine Pirro and Ilhan Omar

  by Juan Cole

  In fact, nothing is more American historically than veiling and debates on veiling.