racism

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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.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/26/2020
  

  We’re Better than This. Aren’t We?

  by Max Boot

  We certainly should be better than this.

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• SOURCE: Charlotte Observer
  10/26/2020
  

  In Battleground North Carolina, Donald Trump Is Taking Jesse Helms’s Last Stand

  Donald Trump's chances in North Carolina depend on whether he can successfully deploy the politics of white resentment mastered by the state's longtime senator Jesse Helms. 

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• SOURCE: joelowndes.org
  10/27/2020
  

  Election Dread: David Duke, Halloween, and Premonitions of Our Political Moment

  by Joe Lowndes

  "There is a straight line from Buchanan to Trump, or rather from Duke to Trump, that stretches back to the fall of 1991, and before." 

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  10/28/2020
  

  The Long Shadow of Racial Fascism

  by Alberto Toscano

  Black thinkers have long argued that racial slavery created its own unique form of American fascism.

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• SOURCE: New York Magazine
  10/26/2020
  

  Two Visions of the Suburbs Are on the Ballot. Both Are Myths

  While Donald Trump imagines American suburbia as affluent, homogenous and imperiled by liberal housing policies, Joe Biden ignores the fact that separate suburban municipalities work to segregate Americans by race and class and perpetuate different levels of access to opportunity.

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• SOURCE: New York Magazine
  10/26/2020
  

  FBI Won’t Deliver Report on White-Supremacist Terror Threat Until After Election

  “This report probably would not be viewed favorably by this administration. That, I think, precipitates the report not being released by November 3,” Mississippi representative Bennie Thompson told The Daily Beast.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  10/27/2020
  

  When a Kidnapping Ring Targeted New York’s Black Children (Review)

  In “The Kidnapping Club,” the historian Jonathan Daniel Wells describes the circle of slave catchers and police officers who terrorized New York’s Black population in the three decades before the Civil War.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  10/26/2020
  

  VMI Superintendent Steps Down Amid Allegations Of 'Structural Racism'

  Governor Ralph Northam wrote that Virginians expect universities to "eschew outdated traditions that glamorize a history rooted in rebellion against the United States."

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• SOURCE: Saturday Evening Post
  10/27/2020
  

  Considering History: Voter Suppression and Racial Terrorism, the Twin Pillars of White Supremacy

  by Ben Railton

  Voter suppression has consistently gone hand in hand with racial terrorism to prop up white supremacy.

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• SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
  10/26/2020
  

  UC Berkeley is Disavowing its Eugenic Research Fund after Bioethicist and Other Faculty Call it Out

  “Regardless of what was done with the money, it was just wrong for us to take it in the first place. It’s antithetical to everything that the school stands for.”

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  10/23/2020
  

  The Politics of White Anxiety

  by Jonathan M. Metzl

  Appeals to the fears and resentments of White voters are a predictable part of our politics. Why does it remain difficult to fight those appeals?

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• SOURCE: George Washington University Textile Museum
  10/23/2020
  

  Online Lecture: Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped Into Slavery and Their Astonishing Odyssey Home (11/2)

  The George Washington DC Mondays series supports discussion with local authors and historians about the DC region. 

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• SOURCE: Merrittocracy with Keri Leigh Merritt
  10/19/2020
  

  Dr. Carol Anderson: The 2020 Election and Beyond (video)

  Historian Carol Anderson joins Merrittocracy host Keri Leigh Merritt to discus Trump, racism, and the state of democracy leading up to the 2020 election.

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• SOURCE: Law.com
  10/19/2020
  

  US Justices Won't Take Case Over 1946 Georgia Lynching Records

  The Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal of a Circuit Court decision that would have allowed access to the grand jury records of the Moore's Ford Lynchings, the unpunished murder of four Black Georgians in 1946. 

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  10/20/2020
  

  Baseball’s Race Problem

  by Gene Seymour

  Following comedian Chris Rock's observations, Gene Seymour argues that baseball is out of step with a multicultural America and ruled by traditions and unwritten rules that limit its appeal outside of White America. 

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• SOURCE: The City
  10/20/2020
  

  Unions Seize on Ex-Cop’s Academic Flap in Push to Keep NYPD Misconduct Records Secret

  St. John’s University students posted adjunct professor Richard Taylor’s police complaint history after what they called a racist lesson. The school suspended him — fueling cops’ latest argument for keeping their records under wrap.

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• SOURCE: ABC 8 Tulsa
  10/20/2020
  

  Human Remains Found in Search for 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Victims

  Two coffins were discovered in Oaklawn Cemetery, where victims of the 1921 anti-Black massacre were buried. Forensic analysis has not yet connected the remains to the violent mob attacks on the city's Black community.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/19/2020
  

  Northam Calls for VMI Investigation after Black Cadets Describe Relentless Racism

  Virginia's governor has called for investigation of the culture of the state-run institution, where Black students have described an entrenched culture of racism and veneration of the Confederacy. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  10/17/2020
  

  "White Supremacy" Once Meant David Duke and the Klan. Now it Refers to Much More

  The term "white supremacy" has recently expanded to cover social phenomena beyond overt racial bigotry and discrimination. Historians and other scholars debate this usage.