White Supremacy

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/9/19
  

  Impeachment is the latest chapter in the battle between democracy and white supremacy

  by Carol Anderson

  The connections aren’t as obvious, but America’s front lines remain the same as they’ve always been.

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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: AHA
  Accessed 8/27/19
  

  American Historical Association Releases Statement on Domestic Terrorism, Bigotry, and History

  The statement was endorsed by many other scholarly organizations. 

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  8/18/19
  

  A rural town confronts its buried history of mass killings of black Americans

  100 years after hundreds of African Americans were reportedly killed in Elaine, Arkansas, a memorial is set to bring details of the tragedy to light.

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  8/6/2019
  

  How the Trail of American White Supremacy Led to El Paso

  We invariably find ourselves locked in conflict with dangerous men intoxicated with their own sense of mission, and drunkenly believing that the only problem with the past is that we ever departed from it at all.

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• 8/6/19
  

  The Constant Threat of Mass Shootings Requires Increased Protection for Presidential Contenders

  by Ronald L. Feinman

  In the not-so-distant past, two presidential candidates running for office in the midst of American chaos and division were shot.

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• 8/4/19
  

  Remembering The Red Summer 100 Years Later

  by David Krugler

  How should the challenging but essential task of remembering and commemorating this troubling history be confronted? 

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  7/26/19
  

  A Confederate statue graveyard could help bury the Old South

  by Jordan Brasher and Derek H. Alderman

  If the aim of statue removal is to build a more racially just South, then, as many analysts have pointed out, putting these monuments in storage is a lost opportunity. 

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  7/20/19
  

  Trump revives the idea of a ‘white man’s country’, America’s original sin

  by Nell Painter

  It can’t be left to black Americans alone to resist the president’s racism. Citizens of all colours need to resist, and embrace activism.

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• 7/28/19
  

  White Nationalists and the Legacy of the Waffen-SS from Postwar Europe to Today

  by Adrian Gilbert

  Recently there has been a trend to rehabilitate Waffen-SS veterans from Eastern European countries and to reconsider them as patriots rather than agents of Nazi tyranny. 

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• SOURCE: Time
  7/17/19
  

  Republicans Want a White Republic. They'll Destroy America to Get It

  by Carol Anderson

  Already, Trump and the Republicans have severely harmed the institutional heft of checks-and-balances. But they’re not done.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  7/15/19
  

  Trump’s America Is a ‘White Man’s Country’

  by Jamelle Bouie

  His racist idea of citizenship is an old one, brought back from the margins of American politics.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/15/19
  

  Tennessee just showed that white supremacy is alive and well

  by Keisha N. Blain

  Honoring a former Confederate general and KKK grand wizard in 2019 is outrageous.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/9/19
  

  The white nostalgia fueling the ‘Little Mermaid’ backlash

  by Brooke Newman

  The uproar over a black Ariel shows how important representation in children’s entertainment is.

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• SOURCE: Vox
  June 20, 2019
  

  When white supremacists overthrew a government

  by Ranjani Chakraborty

  The hidden history of a North Carolina coup.

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• 6/23/19
  

  We Need A Long-Arc Historical Perspective to Understand White Supremacist Extremist Violence.

  by Eric V. Tait, Jr.

  Much like today, in the early 1980s, people of color and the gains of the civil rights movement were increasingly under attack and many Americans wanted to “turn back the clock to an earlier era.”

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  5/10/19
  

  The Problem With Ancestory.com

  by Adam H. Domby

  The search engine functions to hide both slave ownership and enslaved people from the eyes of contemporary genealogists.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  5/6/19
  

  Brazil’s long, strange love affair with the Confederacy ignites racial tension

  by Jordan Brasher

  How did an American debate about racism make its way to Brazil? 

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  5/5/19
  

  Medieval Scholars Joust With White Nationalists. And One Another.

  Since the 2016 presidential election, scholars have hotly debated the best way to counter the “weaponization” of the Middle Ages by a rising tide of far-right extremists.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/29/19
  

  The Poway shooter used an age old terrorist tactic. The media fell for it.

  by Ibrahim Al-Marashi

  The history behind terrorists’ favorite tactic and how we can fight it.