racism

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• SOURCE: Vox
  6/3/2020
  

  Chris Hayes on How Police Treat Black Americans like Colonial Subjects

  The MSNBC commentator's new book contends that Americans have historically been policed either as citizens of the nation or as colonized people, accounting for polarized experiences and opinions of police violence.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/5/2020
  

  Changing Hearts and Minds Won’t Stop Police Violence

  by Matthew Delmont

  White Americans have embraced approaches to fighting racism that involve individual attitudes and interpersonal courtesy while ignoring calls to substantively redistribute power and resources and accept true equality of citizenship.

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• SOURCE: Christian Science Monitor
  6/1/2020
  

  COVID, Race, and a Pivotal Moment for America

  Eric Foner and Robert Vinson comment on the convergence of two crises in America. Are there moments that compare?

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• SOURCE: National Museum of African American History and Culture
  5/31/2020
  

  National Museum of African American History and Culture Releases “Talking About Race” Web Portal

  Research shows that many people feel they do not have the information needed to discuss race in a way that is candid, safe and respectful of other viewpoints and experiences.  

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/4/2020
  

  This Moment Cries Out For Us To Confront Race In America

  by Condoleezza Rice

  The Republican former Secretary of State calls for an end to looting and disorder, but recognizes that order must be secured by a renewed commitment to justice. 

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• SOURCE: CNN
  6/1/2020
  

  Confederate Monuments Haunt American Democracy

  by Karen L. Cox

  Confederate monuments, most put in place as white supremacy regained control of the South, testify to continued injustice.

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• SOURCE: The Intercept
  6/3/2020
  

  The Rebellion in Defense of Black Lives is Rooted in U.S. History. So, too, is Trump’s Authoritarian Rule (Podcast)

  Historians Keisha Blain and Stuart Schrader discuss the history of black rebellion against police violence and the militarization of domestic policing. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  6/2/2020
  

  Beverly Hills, Buckhead, SoHo: The New Sites of Urban Unrest

  by Emily Badger

  In a reflection of how American cities have changed since the 1960s, demonstrations have included many wealthy areas. Historians and scholars including Thomas Sugrue, Alison Isenberg and Lester Spence comment on this change. 

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• SOURCE: Vox
  6/2/2020
  

  How Today’s Protests Compare to 1968, Explained by a Historian

  The Pulitzer Prize winning historian and President of the Urban History Association: "If there’s nothing else I’d love for your readership to think of, it’s this: If you have 75+ cities burning, what does it say that from the leadership at every level, the only response has been more police?"

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• SOURCE: Psychiatry Advisor
  5/29/2020
  

  Confronting the History of a Southern Asylum: An Interview With Mab Segrest

  Dr. Segrest's new book uncovers the harrowing story of the Georgia State Lunatic, Idiot, and Epileptic Asylum.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/29/2020
  

  This is the Presidency George Wallace Never Had

  by Max Boot

  The president is pouring gasoline on the flames of racial division, and the Republican Party is holding the jerrycan for him. This is where the Southern Strategy has led after half a century.

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• SOURCE: USA Today
  5/31/2020
  

  Words Matter When Talking About Race, Unrest, Experts Say

  UCLA historian Robin Kelley insists rebellions occur when the usual channels for affecting change in a democracy – nonviolent protest, voting – have been ineffective, and the term "riot" obscures that fact.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian Magazine
  5/31/2020
  

  Secretary Lonnie Bunch: It Is Time for America to Confront Its Tortured Racial Past

  by Lonnie G. Bunch III

  This moment, says the Smithsonian secretary, should be the ‘impetus for our nation to address racism and social inequities in earnest.’

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• SOURCE: Jacobin
  5/31/2020
  

  We Are Living in a Red Spring

  by Robert Greene II

  In the Red Summer of 1919, racist violence hit America as the Spanish flu ravaged the country. With mass protests against police murders sweeping the pandemic-plagued United States, it appears we might be now living in a Red Spring.

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  5/29/2020
  

  The Minneapolis Uprising in Context

  by Elizabeth Hinton

  It's necessary to understand anti-police rebellion as a form of political protest among people without the resources to express discontent in more socially accepted ways. 

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• SOURCE: NPR
  5/29/2020
  

  Activists Investigate The History Of Relationships Of MPD With African Americans

  NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Tony Williams, a contributor to MPD150, who published an investigation into the conduct of the Minneapolis Police Department throughout its 150-year history.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  5/31/2020
  

  What Trump and Toxic Cops Have in Common

  It’s us versus them.

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• SOURCE: Jerusalem Post
  5/31/2020
  

  Polish Historian Ewa Kurek: Coronavirus is ‘Jewification’ of Europe

  Kurek is infamous for her radical arguments about the Holocaust, which include denial of Polish crimes against Jews. Now she invokes conspiratorial ideas about Jewish control of Europe.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  6/1/2020
  

  The Double Standard of the American Riot

  by Kellie Carter Jackson

  Many people are asking if violence is a valid means of producing social change. The hard and historical answer is yes. Riots have a way of magnifying not merely the flaws in the system, but also the strength of those in power. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  6/1/2020
  

  The American Nightmare

  by Ibram X. Kendi

  Racism is not the province of the uneducated or ignorant; the denial of black life and humanity has historically been supported from the loftiest precincts of scholarship and government.