immigration

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• 8/7/2022
  

  The COVID Era is the Latest Episode of Medical Scapegoating of Asian Immigrants

  by Catherine Ceniza Choy

  From smallpox to COVID, Asian Americans have been blamed and attacked for supposedly causing disease, while their contributions to American health have been ignored. This medical scapegoating and the violence that often follow it demonstrate the need to teach more Asian American history. 

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• SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
  8/1/2022
  

  For Decades, Whites Used "Colorblind" Rhetoric to Stall Equality. Now the Right Wing is Dropping the Charade

  LA Times Columnist Jean Guerrero checks with legal historian Ian Haney López about the resurgence of openly white identity politics on the mainstream right as pundits and candidates abandon the idea of protecting a level playing field to say whites need protection.

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• SOURCE: Slate
  7/4/2022
  

  If "Heathen" Sounds Outdated, Historian Kathryn Gim Lum Says it Still Explains Racism in America

  The concept of heathenism has always served to distinguish Americans as a group deserving of their good fortune and apart from others in need of transformation, either by persuasion or by violence. 

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• SOURCE: Governing
  6/16/2022
  

  A.K. Sandoval-Strausz: Did Latinos Save the American City?

  The historian argues that the "creative class" explanation for urban resurgence focuses on affluent white professionals while ignoring the role of Latino immigrants in revitalizing urban communities. 

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• SOURCE: Public Books
  6/15/2022
  

  America Runs on Xenophobia

  by Erika Lee

  Xenophobia's resilience and revival in America is happening because it helps manage the faults and contradictions of major social institutions including capitalism, democracy, and global leadership. 

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• SOURCE: The Drift
  6/9/2022
  

  The Dark Underside of the "Family-Like" Business

  by Erik Baker

  The history of businesses cloaking their labor practices in paternalism is long; the most recent chapter dates back to the spiritual explorations of the 1960s counterculture and the surveillance practices of Henry Ford. 

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  6/8/2022
  

  Reece Jones on How "Great Replacement" Idea Revived

  "Thanks to the great replacement theory, the people that once forcibly colonised much of the rest of the world can cast themselves as oppressed victims."

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• 5/29/2022
  

  There is a Real "Great Replacement" – But Not the One the Right Talks About

  by Guy Lancaster

  Arkansas history shows how the true Great Replacement in the United States has been organized by oligarchs hoping to use immigrant labor to undercut Black people's demands for economic fairness and human rights. 

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• SOURCE: The Bulwark
  5/20/2022
  

  Is the Left Involved in its Own "Great Replacement"?

  by Cathy Young

  No – while the Democrats have been publicly (and perhaps unjustifiably) confident that demographic change favors their electoral interests, the right is bringing a racist conspiracy theory from the fringes to the mainstream.

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• 5/22/2022
  

  California Isn't a Liberal Sanctuary where Asian Americans are Concerned

  by Hao Huang

  Anti-Chinese racism and violence has always been part of the nightmare underside of the California dream. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/15/2022
  

  "Great Replacement" Rhetoric has not Historically Been Out of Place in the Halls of Power

  Mississippi Senator Theodore Bilbo published a book in 1947 declaring that the failure to ensure racial segregation and Anglo-Saxon supremacy would lead to the destruction of American civilization. 

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• SOURCE: Labor and Working Class History Association
  5/4/2022
  

  The Laundry Workers' Uprising and the Fight for Democratic Unionism

  by Jenny Carson

  African American and Black Caribbean immigrant women were key organizers of New York laundry workers who pushed for a union movement that rejected divisions of occupation, race and nationality in favor of workplace democracy. 

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• SOURCE: Texas Tribune
  4/18/2022
  

  Texas Governors Have Politicized "Border Security" for Decades. What Have They Accomplished?

  Texas governors since 9/11 have pledged billions to secure the state's border with Mexico, but a lack of accountability suggests that electoral and partisan concerns have been the key motive. 

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• SOURCE: Dame
  3/14/2022
  

  How Disinformation Powers Vigilantism

  Right wing misinformation has linked the nation's borders with race war discourse that encourages vigilantism, according to historian Carly Goodman. 

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  2/21/2022
  

  Understanding Ukrainian-Americans' Commitment to Cultural Heritage – and National Sovereignty

  by Katja Kolcio

  "Participating in Ukrainian arts and culture is a conscientious act of preserving national identity and culture for Ukrainian Americans, including my own family."

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• 2/27/2022
  

  Bridget the Grocer and the First American Kennedys

  by Neal Thompson

  The history of the Irish immigrant Kennedys has long focused on its prominent men. A new book looks to JFK's grandmother Bridget Murphy Kennedy as the foundation of the family and a neglected figure for understanding immigration, urban life, and the changing of American politics.

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  2/14/2022
  

  Today's Asylum Seekers Carry on the Freedom Struggle of Enslaved Americans

  by Sean Gallagher

  Moving across the nation's boundaries was integral to the efforts of enslaved people to secure freedom; migrants today carry the legacy of that struggle, despite the cruelty of American immigration policy. 

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• 2/13/2022
  

  The Nazi in the Classroom

  by Gary B. Ostrower

  American student Edward Sittler adopted German citizenship after the outbreak of World War II and became a Nazi propagandist. After the war, his past was revealed to the public and the Long Island college where he had been teaching German, launching a debate about citizenship, loyalty, and the limits of academic freedom.

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• SOURCE: TIME
  1/24/2022
  

  How the Pandemic and Anti-Asian Violence Spurred 2 States to Change History Lessons

  The introduction of requirements to teach the history of Asian Americans is bumping up against laws in other states that would make it difficult for teachers to address topics like violence, immigration restrictions, and internment. 

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• SOURCE: Teen Vogue
  12/31/2021
  

  The DC Punk Scene Relied on the Local Latinx Community

  by Mike Amezcua

  "A big piece is missing from the stories told about punk and hardcore in the 1980s: Primarily, that marginalized spaces and communities in urban America gave a stage to the predominantly white subculture."