racism

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  3/23/2023
  

  The Crisis of the Intellectuals

  by Ibram X. Kendi

  A dire health crisis forced the author to ask what his intellectual work was ultimately for. Intellectuals more broadly need a similar push from the dire state of democracy, and should be assured that when they face pushback about being "illiberal" or "presentist" or violating the traditions of their discipline, they're on the right track. 

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  3/23/2023
  

  New Books Force Consideration of Reconstruction's End from Black Perspective

  Books by Kidada Williams and Mari Crabtree shift attention away from the motives and mentality of white racist terrorists toward the impact on African American cultural, political, and psychological life in the wake of attacks by the Klan and other vigilantes. 

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  3/21/2023
  

  Historian's Book on 1970s NBA Shows Racial Politics around Basketball Have Always Been Ugly

  by Jay Caspian Kang

  The decade saw Black players become dominant in the league and assert their rights as skilled workers. Owners pushed back through the media, smearing the players as entitled drug abusers, as historian Theresa Runstedtler's new book explains. 

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• SOURCE: CNN
  3/18/2023
  

  Kendi: "Anti-woke" Part of Backlash Against Antiracist Protest Movements

  Critics have charged that Ibram X. Kendi's writing portrays racism as an all-powerful and unchangeable force in American society. He says that, in fact, understanding racism as "constructed" means it can be deconstructed. 

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• SOURCE: Nursing Clio
  3/15/2023
  

  "If they were White and Insured, Would they have Died?"

  by Udodiri R. Okwandu

  Texas's new maternal mortality report shows that historical patterns of medical racism are continuing, and the state plans to do little but blame Black women for the inadequate care they receive. 

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• SOURCE: Al Jazeera
  3/15/2023
  

  Brits Don't Need to Compare Refugee Policy to Nazis—British History is Cruel Enough

  by Priyamvada Gopal

  "As its government demonises undocumented people seeking shelter today, it is worth remembering that Britain has historically been more a refugee-making country than a refugee-taking one."

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  3/13/2023
  

  After Studying Housing Discrimination, This Historian is Fighting it in Court

  Nathan Connolly and Shani Mott saw their home appraisal increase by a quarter million after they removed visual evidence that their family, which is Black, occupied the residence. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  3/10/2023
  

  Actually, All of Shakespeare's Plays are About Race

  by Daniel Pollack-Pelzner

  A new collection of essays argues that Shakespeare's works helped Renaissance Europeans to invent the category of "whiteness," and for later generations to refine and contest its meaning. 

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• SOURCE: Windsor Weekly
  3/10/2023
  

  Virginia School Board Declares there is "No Systemic Racism"

  The sponsoring board member suggested that his election victory means that "parents get a voice in how and what their children are exposed to.” A local history teacher disagreed.   

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• SOURCE: WHYY
  3/3/2023
  

  Historian and Social Psychologist Discuss How to Confront Difficult Aspects of History

  Hasan Kwame Jeffries and Dolly Chugh have an interdisciplinary discussion of why difficult and conflictual elements of history must be taught, and how to enable students and teachers to do it productively. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  2/24/2023
  

  A Different Kind of Unfree Labor Haunts a Houston Suburb

  by Ashanté Reese

  Texas's convict labor system was a first step in reasserting white dominance over Black labor through criminal law. The discovery of remains of convicted laborers on the site of a former prison farm show the need to reckon with unfree labor after the end of slavery. 

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  2/27/2023
  

  Black History, White Terror, and Rosewood at 100

  by Dan Royles

  The efforts of historians and survivors to achieve a small measure of justice and acknowledgment for the Rosewood massacre demonstrate the stakes of Florida's current efforts to restrict the teaching of history that challenges white supremacy. 

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• SOURCE: London Review of Books
  3/1/2023
  

  Review: The Unfinished Business of "Double V"

  by Eric Foner

  Eric Foner considers recent books on racism in the military in World War II and in Vietnam. 

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• SOURCE: Dallas Observer
  2/24/2023
  

  Prof. Trinidad Gonzalez Seeks Truth and Reconciliation from Texas Rangers

  The historian at South Texas College is seeking acknowledgment by the state legislature and elected officials representing the Rio Grande Valley of the atrocities committed under the color of law by the Texas Rangers after Texas independence. 

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• SOURCE: Baltimore Magazine
  2/25/2023
  

  Will Baltimore's Black Communities Ever See Justice for the "Highway to Nowhere"?

  The Robert Moses-designed expressway displaced Black families and neighborhoods for a stub of a freeway that ultimately stretched for less than two miles and does not connect to the rest of the interstate system. 

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• SOURCE: San Diego Union-Tribune
  2/26/2023
  

  Natalye Pass Harpin on the Lives of Black Germans under Nazism

  Nazi policy toward the nation's Black residents was strongly influenced by American Jim Crow laws and illustrates the dangers of militantly racial ideas of nationhood. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  2/22/2023
  

  The Children of the Nazis' Genetics Project

  While much of Nazism was associated with destruction, it's racist ideological core was also preoccupied with creating or restoring racial purity, including through the Lebensborn program which viewed officers of the SS as the fathers of a new Aryan vanguard. 

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• 2/26/2023
  

  Kara Walker Disrupts the Visual History of the Civil War in New Exhibition

  by Allison Robinson and Ksenia M. Soboleva

  The artist Kara Walker's 2005 series of prints merged the historical illustrations that shaped Americans' understanding of the Civil War in its immediate aftermath and in the 1890s with her original subversive take on the tradition of silhouette art to highlight the erasure of Black experiences of war. Two curators are putting Walker's work in context in a new exhibition.

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  2/23/2023
  

  Why is a Senate Office Building Still Named for an Unrepentant Segregationist and White Supremacist?

  Texas Senator Ted Cruz decried efforts to "sanitize history" and argued that "the journey of the United States has been a steady journey toward freedom" by way of explaining why he did not support removing segregationist Senator Richard Russell's name from a Senate office building. But few Democrats will candidly support change either.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  2/17/2023
  

  Vincent Lloyd: What's Gone Wrong with Antiracist Politics

  The Villanova professor explains the incidents that led him to ask whether a center-right critique of antiracist rhetoric and discursive rules has some justification, and how a broader coalition against domination can be rescued from some censorious excesses.