racism

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/17/19
  

  A white mob attacked Elijah Cummings for integrating a swimming pool. He was 11.

  by Gillian Brockell

  The Maryland congressman, who died Thursday, had a scar on his face for the rest of his life.

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• SOURCE: Hyperallergic
  9/24/19
  

  How Do We Address a Statue of President Roosevelt That Affirms Racist Hierarchies?

  Almost two years after the fascist rally at Charlottesville around a mediocre statue of Robert E. Lee, the American Museum of Natural History has opened its exhibition Addressing the Statue.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  September 16, 2019
  

  Learning from the Germans by Susan Neiman; Hitler: Only the World Was Enough by Brendan Simms – review

  by Anne McElvoy

  A study of how the US and Germany have dealt with their racist legacies; and a new theory of what drove Hitler.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  9/22/2019
  

  There's a new way to deal with Confederate monuments: Signs that explain their racist history

  “It’s happening in all sorts of places,” said Adam Domby, a history professor at the College of Charleston who is writing a book about Confederate monuments. “Still, it’s clearly in many cases being used as a stopgap because the laws prohibit removing them.”  

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  9/19/19
  

  Unilever's Ads and the History of Sexual Abuse Under Slavery

  by Thomas A. Foster

  Historian Thomas A. Foster discusses the history of the portrayal of Black bodies, and how that has manifested in 2019.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  9/20/19
  

  It's Not Just Justin Trudeau: Canada’s Surprising History of Blackface

  Scandalous images of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau don’t just tarnish his image—they also point to the hidden history of racism and minstrelsy in his country.

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  9/20/19
  

  The Long History of American Slavery Reparations

  by Manisha Sinha

  From the colonial era to today, the bitter legacy of bondage and racial oppression has sparked demands for compensation, with some successes and many broken promises.

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  9/12/19
  

  What White Kids Learn About Race in School

  by Eric Loomis

  Sixty-five years after Brown v. Board of Education, U.S. schools remain largely segregated. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  9/19/19
  

  New Documents Illuminate The University of Texas’s Secret Strategy to Keep Out Black Students

  by Asher Price

  Long-hidden documents show the school’s blueprint for slowing integration during the civil-rights era.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  8/29/19
  

  Why anti-immigration politics hurt white workers

  by Inés Valdez

  No, immigrants aren’t taking your job — but vilifying immigrants helps undermine worker protection.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  August 4, 2019
  

  Why Donald Trump is just following in Ronald Reagan’s footsteps on race

  by Kyle Longley

  He might be more unvarnished, but Reagan was just as racist.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  August 4, 2019
  

  The Right Way to Understand White Nationalist Terrorism

  by Kathleen Belew

  Attacks like that in El Paso are not an end in themselves. They are a call to arms, toward something much more frightening.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  August 5, 2019
  

  The Most Dangerous American Idea

  No belief in the history of the United States has been more threatening to democracy than the certainty that only white people are fit for self-government.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  8/6/2019
  

  Ibram X. Kendi Has a Cure for America’s ‘Metastatic Racism’

  In 2016, he was a surprise National Book Award winner for a sweeping history of ever-mutating American racism. Now, he’s back with a new book that outlines how to fight it.

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• 8/6/19
  

  Please stop saying the past is in the past. It isn’t.

  by Perry Greene

  Nike dropped its Air Max USA 1 shoe after former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick worried that the “Betsy Ross” flag design harkens back to an era of black slavery and has been used by white nationalist groups. 

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• SOURCE: NPR
  7/31/19
  

  Historian Tim Naftali Discusses Recording Of Reagan's Racist Comments Made To Nixon

  NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with historian Tim Naftali about his article in The Atlantic describing a tape President Nixon had of then-Gov. Ronald Reagan making racist remarks.

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  7/31/19
  

  Don't just revile Amy Wax--rebut her

  by Jonathan Zimmerman

  Outrage does not and cannot refute what she said -- only facts can do that.

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• SOURCE: City Lab
  7/29/19
  

  What 'Infests' Baltimore? The Segregation History Buried in Trump's Tweets

  by Paige Glotzer

  In slamming Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings’s 7th District as “rodent infested,” Trump borrows from the rhetoric that first segregated the city.  

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian Magazine
  7/29/19
  

  Due to Repeated Vandalism, Emmett Till Memorial to Be Replaced With Bulletproof Sign

  by Brigit Katz

  Most recently, three University of Mississippi students were suspended from their fraternity after posing in front of the sign with guns.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  7/30/19
  

  Historian Tim Naftali Unearths Audio of Ronald Reagan's Racist Conversation with Nixon

  by Tim Naftali

  In newly unearthed audio, the then–California governor disparaged African delegates to the United Nations.