racism

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  8/6/2020
  

  The Real Reason the American Economy Boomed After World War II

  by Jim Tankersley

  Citing recent economic research, the author argues that fighting employment discrimination and ending the idea that white men have a privileged claim on good jobs will be a potent engine for economic growth if and when America recovers from the pandemic. 

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• SOURCE: History.com
  8/5/2020
  

  Black Americans Who Served in WWII Faced Segregation and Second-Class Roles

  “The experience was very dispiriting for a lot of Black soldiers,” says Matthew Delmont, a history professor at Dartmouth College and author of "Black Quotidian: Everyday History in African American Newspapers."

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• SOURCE: Reason
  8/6/2020
  

  Tulane Canceled a Talk by the Author of an Acclaimed Anti-Racism Book After Students Said the Event Was 'Violent'

  Reason columnist Robby Soave questions why a speaker whose books renounce family and community histories of white supremacy would spark outrage by antiracist student activists.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  8/5/2020
  

  Lincoln Library Cancels Exhibition Over Racial Sensitivity Concerns

  The library, in Springfield, Ill., said Black community leaders who previewed it feared parts of the traveling exhibition, created 15 years ago, were outdated and lacked context.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  8/5/2020
  

  Is This the Beginning of the End of American Racism?

  by Ibram X. Kendi

  The slaveholders’ attempts to perpetuate their system backfired; in the years before the Civil War, the inhumanity and cruelty of enslavement became too blatant for northerners to ignore or deny.

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• SOURCE: TIME
  8/3/2020
  

  She Played a Key Role in the Police Response to the Watts Riots. The Memory Still Haunts Her—But Black History Is Full of Haunting Memories

  by Morgan Jerkins

  Regina was a Black woman working as an LAPD dispatcher in the 77th Street Division of South Los Angeles. She sent officers to respond to another's call for aid on August 11, 1965, warning them not to escalate any situation. Today she still asks “why didn’t they listen to me?”

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• SOURCE: CNN
  8/4/2020
  

  German Ambassador Pick Disparaged Immigrants and Refugees, Called for Martial Law at US-Mexico Border

  Douglas Macgregor described the German cultural concept of "Vergangenheitsbewältigung," which seeks to "cope with the past" and confront the atrocities the country committed in World War II, as a "sick mentality" and he downplayed the country's Nazi history.

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• SOURCE: The Bitter Southerner
  8/4/2020
  

  Somebody Died, Babe: A Musical Coverup of Racism, Violence & Greed

  by Kevin Kehrberg & Jeffrey A. Keith

  The song "Swannanoa Tunnel" has been changed through generations of recordings by white musicians, concealing its origins as a song sung by Black convict-lease laborers who were forced to work in deadly conditions, often as punishment for minor crimes (or no crimes at all). 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  7/31/2020
  

  Isabel Wilkerson’s ‘Caste’ Is an ‘Instant American Classic’ About Our Abiding Sin

  “Caste” lands so firmly because the historian, the sociologist and the reporter are not at war with the essayist and the critic inside her.

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• SOURCE: Vox
  8/4/2020
  

  How Portland’s Wall of Moms Collapsed — and Was Reborn Under Black Leadership

  Keisha N. Blain provides historical context for the high visibility of white moms in Portland, and the problems this posed for the city's protest movements. 

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• SOURCE: Nashville Tennessean
  7/30/2020
  

  Southern Newspapers were Vocal Supporters of the Confederacy. It Lasted for Generations

  For most of American history, newspapers in the South supported the people and systems that promoted and maintained prejudice and discrimination.

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• SOURCE: Business Insider
  7/31/2020
  

  Twitter Has Shut Down Former KKK Leader David Duke's Account

  A Twitter spokesperson confirmed the suspension saying the account has been "permanently suspended for repeated violations of the Twitter Rules on hateful conduct."

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  7/30/2020
  

  The Reconciliation Must Be Televised

  by Wesley Morris

  The United States has flirted with truth and reconciliation. But it abandoned Reconstruction and failed to act on the warnings of the 1968 Kerner Commission. Most of all, these failures reflect the vain hope that overcoming the country's racist past can be done quickly. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/31/2020
  

  The Next Lost Cause?

  by Caroline E. Janney

  The South’s mythology glamorized a noble defeat. Trump backers may do the same.

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• SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
  7/31/2020
  

  Trump’s Mail Ballot Claims are Part of a Long History of Voter Suppression

  by Griffin Black

  Over the years since 1965, voter suppression tactics have returned in forms like voter ID qualifications and voter roll purges that force citizens through administrative hoops to reach the ballot box. 

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  7/31/2020
  

  Black Women’s Long Struggle for Voting Rights

  "As historian Faye E. Dudden writes in 'Fighting Change,' her book on the suffrage movement in the Reconstruction period, Stanton dipped her pen into a tincture of white racism and sketched a reference to a nightmarish figure, the black rapist'.”

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  8/3/2020
  

  The White, European Jesus of Western Imagination is Fiction

  Opinion columnist Michael Gerson takes issue with conservative writer Eric Metaxas's comments on the ethnicity of Jesus Christ. 

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• SOURCE: Counterpunch
  8/3/2020
  

  Renouncing White Privilege: A Left Critique of Robin DiAngelo’s “White Fragility”

  by David Barber

  "The dominant aspect of the contradiction of white supremacy for poor and working class whites is not that white supremacy advantages us, but that it ties us to our own oppression."

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• How Has the Electoral College Survived for This Long?

  by Alexander Keyssar

  Long after the abolition of slavery, Southern political leaders continued to resist any attempts to replace the Electoral College with a national popular vote.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  8/3/2020
  

  How White Supremacy Infected Christianity and the Republican Party

  Columnist Jennifer Rubin discusses the findings of Robert P. Jones of the Public Religion Research Institute, presented in his new book, that elements of evangelical theology are strongly supportive of hierarchy and inequality.