segregation

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• SOURCE: NBC Los Angeles
  2/22/21
  

  New Exhibit Reckons With Glendale's Racist Past as ‘Sundown Town'

  The suburban city of Glendale, CA has initiated a series of public programs confronting its legacy as a "sundown town" where minorities, particulary African Americans, were able to work but barred from living or socializing. 

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• SOURCE: Hartford Courant
  2/19/2021
  

  West Hartford is Mostly White, While Bloomfield is Largely Black. How that Came to be Tells the Story of Racism and Segregation in American Suburbs

  Local historians in West Hartford are working to promote public knowledge of exclusionary zoning and other practices that built and maintained racial segregation in the suburbs. 

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• SOURCE: Fresno Bee
  1/14/2021
  

  How Decades of Housing Discrimination Hurts Fresno in the Pandemic

  RetroReport produces a short documentary examining how longterm housing discrimination in Fresno, CA has contributed to unequal health and economic outcomes in the COVID pandemic. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  12/28/2020
  

  The Complicated Racial History of the High School D.C. is Renaming

  Renaming Woodrow Wilson High after Edna Burke Jackson, who taught history as one of two Black faculty members in the years after desegregation, is an obvious choice. 

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• Terror in the City Too Busy to Hate: How the English Avenue School Bombing Challenged Atlanta’s Popular Myth of Racial Progress

  by Max Blau and Todd Michney

  Months before Atlanta’s public schools desegregated, someone bombed an all-Black school on the city’s Westside. On the 60th anniversary of that incident, Max Blau and Todd Michney revisit the forces that led to the attack and reflect on its legacy.

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• SOURCE: Norfolk Virginian-Pilot
  12/5/2020
  

  Wrestling With Woodrow Wilson’s Complicated Legacy

  A longtime Virginia political observer suggests that there is more to learn by considering Woodrow Wilson's complex social views and political legacy than by taking his clear racism as reason to hide him from sight. 

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• SOURCE: Montgomery Advertiser
  12/3/2020
  

  When the Textbooks Lied, Black Alabamians Turned to Each Other for History

  Edward Ayers and Kevin M. Levin are cited in a discussion of the gradual turn of Alabama's history curriculum away from the Lost Cause mythology and apologetics for slavery. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  11/30/2020
  

  Hidden in Plain Sight: The Ghosts of Segregation

  Journalist and photographer Richard Frishman examines traces of segregation and racial exclusion in the built environment of the US.

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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: Brookings Institution
  10/15/2020
  

  Why is Trump Obsessed with Suburbia?

  by Willow Lung-Ammam

  Trump and Carson do not want white America to see itself as recipients of federal welfare policies that made suburbs possible, profitable, and desirable–from Federal Housing Administration loans and interstate highways to mortgage interest deductions. Instead, they position white suburbanites as defenders of democracy.

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• SOURCE: Gothamist
  10/5/2020
  

  Are Trump And Biden Fighting About Abolishing The Suburbs, Or Desegregating Them?

  Beneath the rhetoric rests a genuine policy debate over the extent to which the federal government needs to push municipalities to undo segregation. This debate has been going on since 1968, when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Fair Housing Act.

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• SOURCE: Bloomberg CityLab
  9/21/2020
  

  A Neighborhood’s Race Affects Home Values More Now Than in 1980

  by Brentin Mock

  The real estate industry has adopted appraisal standards in response to fair housing laws that are, on the surface, race-neutral. But they don't account for the ways that racism has lowered the sale value in diverse neighborhoods, and still penalize Black and Latino homeowners. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/16/2020
  

  52 Years Ago, Thelonious Monk Played a High School. Now Everyone Can Hear It.

  Digitally restored and widely available for the first time on Friday, “Palo Alto” captures a band hitting a high note, even as Monk battled personal and professional turmoil. Historian and Monk biographer Robin D.G. Kelley puts the gig in context.  

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• SOURCE: Belt
  9/1/2020
  

  Cleveland and Chicago: Cities of Segregation

  "Berlin had a wall, but they took to it with hammers and pickaxes and tore it down. Cleveland and Chicago have walls too, but not the kind you can tear down with a pickaxe. They’ve been erected in places that are harder to reach than a river or a street: bitter, entrenched hearts and minds, both black and white, going back for generations, on either side of town."

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• SOURCE: Zocálo Public Square
  9/4/2020
  

  The Black Ambition of "A Raisin In The Sun"

  by Koritha Mitchell

  Lorraine Hansberry's play and the critical response to it offer a lens on American theater's current reckoning with racism and exclusion, as "the play reveals that what has been framed as “integration” is really about getting white people to stop hoarding everything desirable."

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/3/2020
  

  How Trump Is Using Westchester to Stir Up Suburban Fears

  The bitter history of a federal lawsuit demanding that Yonkers, NY create low-income housing (which would allow more nonwhite residents to live in the city) informs Donald Trump's campaign pledges to protect the suburbs from evils he associates with fair housing laws. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  8/24/2020
  

  How Decades of Racist Housing Policy Left Neighborhoods Sweltering

  A recent study has examined a historical connection between racist redlining practices in urban planning and heat-trapping environments in present-day urban neighborhoods. 

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  8/20/2020
  

  The Black Freedom Struggle of the North (Review)

  "'The Strange Careers of the Jim Crow North' is a major milestone in the growing historical literature on racial discrimination and the civil rights struggle outside the South," writes Joshua Clark Davis.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  8/14/2020
  

  The Black Lives Next Door

  by Richard Rothstein

  Activism for racial justice will not succeed until activists recognize how residential segregation has been made into a normal feature of the American landscape and pressure the developers and banks who have profited from it to take restorative action. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  8/16/2020
  

  Baseball is Honoring the Negro Leagues. It Needs to Explain why they Existed.

  Major League Baseball's celebration of the centennial of the Negro Leagues whitewashes the role of major league owners in segregating baseball with an 1887 "Gentlemen's Agreement."