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SOURCE: The Atlantic
5/18/2022
"Great Replacement" Shows how Many Americans Have Embraced Whites-Only Democracy
by Adam Serwer
Whether they blame a secret cabal of elites or the Democratic Party, proponents of "replacement" rhetoric share a belief that legitimate citizenship is racially exclusive and that legitimate elections require white voters to get what they want, echoing anti-immigrant and eugenics rhetoric of the early 20th century.
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SOURCE: FiveThirtyEight
3/21/2022
Research Shows Republican Politics Fueled by White Grievance
"Why have many white Americans started to see themselves as the victims of racial discrimination?"
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SOURCE: Fast Company
2/12/2022
Docuseries "Everything's Gonna Be All White" Challenges Recurrent Historical Denial
The CRT moral panic is just the latest instance of white America preferring to forget about the significance of race in history. Historian Nell Irvin Painter joins a new series where Americans of color critique the idea of whiteness.
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11/11/2021
Kyle's Tears
by Joe Lowndes
Kyle Rittenhouse's demeanor at trial shows the difficulty of his case; he presents a figure that normalizes and sanitizes the violent core of the vigilante movement he represents.
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SOURCE: The Nation
11/16/2021
“Critical Race Theory” Is White History
by Kali Holloway
"The history of Black folks in America—through slavery, Black codes, lynchings, redlining, voter disenfranchisement, Jim Crow, racial pogroms, illegal medical experimentation, extrajudicial and state-led theft of Black land, anti-Black policing, racist mass incarceration—is white American history, too."
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
11/7/2021
White Backlash is America's Most Destructive Habit
by John S. Huntington and Lawrence Glickman
The authors endorse the term "counterrevolution" for a repeated pattern of political mobilization among White Americans combining distrust of democracy, apocalyptic rhetoric about the effects of racial equality, and the endorsement of antidemocratic and violent means to halt change.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
10/25/2021
Clarifying the Census Bureau's Accounting of "White" Identity Puts Demographic Change in Perspective
by Morris Levy, Richard Alba and Dowell Myers
The 2020 Census seemed to show the white population was in freefall. But few questioned whether differences between the 2010 and 2020 censuses reflected real demographic change or simply statistical noise as the the Census makes incomplete progress toward accounting for multiracial identity.
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SOURCE: Texas Observer
9/28/2021
Prof. Leonard N. Moore on Teaching Black History to White People
Professor Leonard Moore's new book insists that white people who hope to know more about Black history should begin by understanding more about the challenges faced by Black historians.
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SOURCE: Texas Monthly
9/14/2021
Why Democrats are Losing Texas Latinos
A significant portion of Tejanos consider themselves white and many vote like Anglo Texans; their history shows the contingency of racial categories and the risk for Democrats of assuming demographics will substitute for political appeal.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
7/20/2021
3 Tropes of White Victimhood
by Lawrence B. Glickman
"In the conservative world, the idea that white people in the United States are under siege has become doctrine." Lawrence Glickman evaluates the major rhetorical tropes of this doctrine and finds that they have a 150-year history dating back to Reconstruction.
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SOURCE: The Guardian
5/25/2021
We are Told America is Living Through a ‘Racial Reckoning’. Is it Really?
by Simon Balto
Policing historian Simon Balto argues that White America today seems most intersted in defending a personal sense of innocence over racism rather than working for justice. The new culture war over "critical race theory" is evidence.
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SOURCE: Hedgehog Review
4/10/2020
Left Behind: The Trouble with Euphemism
by Nancy Isenberg
A historian of white rural poverty says that the cultural phenomenon of JD Vance's book "Hillbilly Elegy" is just the latest deployment of the "left behind" euphemism to obscure the nature of poverty in the United States. The rural poor are and have been part and parcel of the American economic order.
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4/11/2021
What Will be the Terms of Racial Forgiveness in America?
by J. Chester Johnson
Much of today's antiracist discourse among white Americans resembles what anti-Nazi theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer called "cheap grace" – self-forgivness without cost or atonement for crimes that, while past, nevertheless are deeply present today.
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SOURCE: Contingent
3/2/2021
We, the Nation, Born Under This Tree
by Sean Cleary
A speech of Edward Everett and a painting by N.C. Wyeth create a mythical founding moment of an American nation conceived as a white homeland.
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SOURCE: Salon
2/1/2021
After Trump, the Crisis: David Roediger on White America at the Historical Crossroads
Salon's Chauncey DeVega interviews a founding figure of the study of American whiteness, who thinks White America is at a crossroads between an inclusive social-democratic politics or a turn toward the hard right.
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1/14/2020
Historians, Insurrectionists and Fragile White Folks
by James Brewer Stewart
A historian of abolition and an advocate of racial justice argues that historians must reject the psychological framework of some recent popular antiracist books and learn from the history of activists embodying Frederick Douglass's call for a "moral revolution" through engagement with others.
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SOURCE: Los Angeles Review of Books
9/5/2020
Beyond Jermag Yev Sev: A Roundtable on Armenian American Identity
A dialogue with a historian of Armenians in the United States shows that the boundaries of the "white race" have shifted historically and been determined not by biology but by politics played out in immigration courts.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
8/25/2020
‘Please Don’t Convert to Whiteness’: Johann N. Neem on Current Trends in Racism and Antiracism
Historian Johann N. Neem, an immigrant from India, decries the white supremacy unleashed by Trump but questions whether trendy antiracism discourse is encouraging white progressives to uphold the ideal of an America open to all in an interview.
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SOURCE: Public Books
8/14/2020
Settler Fantasies, Televised
by Hannah Manshell
The genre of house hunting and home improvement shows involve contestants claiming the prerogatives of owning property, which has historically been allotted to white people at the expense of the indigenous in several societies.
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SOURCE: Counterpunch
8/3/2020
Renouncing White Privilege: A Left Critique of Robin DiAngelo’s “White Fragility”
by David Barber
"The dominant aspect of the contradiction of white supremacy for poor and working class whites is not that white supremacy advantages us, but that it ties us to our own oppression."