This page features brief excerpts of stories published by the mainstream
media and, less frequently, blogs, alternative media, and even obviously
biased sources. The excerpts are taken directly from the websites cited in
each source note. Quotation marks are not used.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
Nov 9, 2022
The course, which examines the makings and effects of the historical, political and cultural category of "whiteness" was a target for critics who mistakenly presented it as an example of "anti-white hate."
Source: Organization of American Historians
Nov 9, 2022
"If the court strikes down the ICWA in whole or in part, the decision could have devastating impacts on Native American families and, potentially, on federal Indian law writ large. Resuming the practice of Native child removal would cause active harm to Native families as well as jeopardize the future sovereignty of tribal governments.
Source: The Atlantic
Nov 8, 2022
by Rebecca Nagle
"The U.S. has been passing laws that treat tribes and tribal citizens differently from non-Native citizens since the founding of the republic. If that is unconstitutional, the entire legal structure defending the legal rights of Indigenous nations could crumble."
Source: Dallas Morning News
Nov 8, 2022
by Samuel L. Perry and Andrew L. Whitehead
New survey data says that the growing Christian Nationalist movement is broader than previously believed, and a potential political force in many places.
Source: The Nation
Nov 7, 2022
The policies the Federal Reserve has pursued in response to inflation threaten to treat the problem with a recession that will harm working families and potentially doom the Biden administration. Why hasn't the President pushed back against the bankers?
Source: TIME
Nov 7, 2022
by Silas House
"As I watched the storming of the Capitol in horror I saw the Christian Nationalism of the outsider church I grew up in on display for the whole world to see."
Source: Inside Higher Ed
Nov 7, 2022
"While many other speakers described higher education’s commitment to the pursuit of truth as fading, the conference was heavy on anecdotes and speculative diagnostics relative to clear data."
Source: Vox
Nov 6, 2022
by Donald Moynihan
Conservative rhetoric has long portrayed government as ineffective and inefficient. But potraying civil servants as enemies and traitors is new and dangerous.
Source: Los Angeles Times
Nov 6, 2022
by Nick Buttrick
White Southerners' efforts to reclaim power after Reconstruction help explain how Americans think about guns: what they're used for, and whom they're used against.
Source: Slate
Nov 5, 2022
"The Need to Be Whole once again considers the question that Berry has spent his entire life contemplating: How can we live among our fellow creatures in a way that is honorable, just, and as sustaining of our souls as of our material needs?" A reviewer doesn't think his latest work succeeds.
Source: The New Yorker
Nov 4, 2022
by Jay Caspian Kang
New Yorker writer Jay Caspian Kang argues that while the benefit of "diversity" is largely uncontested, the brand of diversity that Harvard and other elite institutions want to ensure is circumscribed by the bounds of economic elitism, a far cry from the high moral purposes originally claimed for affirmative action.
Source: The Century Foundation
Nov 4, 2022
After a few months in the spotlight, the movement of opposition to CRT has shifted toward the quieter work of promoting charter school networks that can use public funds to teach a whitewashed version of American history.
Source: TIME
Nov 4, 2022
From federal judges to local public health departments and school boards, violent threats against public officials are increasingly part of the political scene, according to Clarence Anthony of the National League of Cities.
Source: Washington Post
Nov 3, 2022
Critics have called the Virginia governor's hotline for reporting "divisive" concepts in the classroom as a vehicle for snitching and intimidation directed at teachers by the conservative parents who were active in Youngkin's political coalition.
Source: NPR
Nov 2, 2022
"Black family members of the deceased were reportedly barred from witnessing the burials, as they were held under armed guard, away from their dead mothers, fathers, sons and daughters."
Source: Slate
Nov 1, 2022
by Jerome Karabel
Despite the enthusiasm of the plaintiffs and the conservative justices for the comparison, Harvard's treatment of Asian American applicants today doesn't match its treatment of Jewish students in the 1920s.
Source: New York Magazine
Nov 1, 2022
Greene wrote about restaurants as arenas for the display of status and a part of the city's culture, the way that the dining public did.
Source: Wired
Nov 1, 2022
From abortion to classroom teaching, state laws are increasingly incentivizing people to report other members of the community for violating new restrictions. Experts say this has worked in the past to erode trust and enable further authoritarianism.
Source: The Atlantic
Nov 1, 2022
by Erin Aubry Kaplan
For decades, the increasing Latino presence in previously Black neighborhoods in South Los Angeles has raised concerns about political representation and hopes for a cross-racial movement for a more just city. Recent leaked city councl tapes show things are far from settled.
Source: PBS News Hour
Nov 1, 2022
The framers of the 1901 constitution were direct about their goal to maintain a government controlled by whites.
