racism

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• 1/26/20
  

  Islamophobia Goes Global

  by Zaman Stanizai

  At the end of the Cold War impasse, however, as the Berlin Wall came crumbling down, the ideological divide of the East-West was replaced by the Middle East-West racial, religious, and cultural divide that culminated in the election of Donald Trump and the rise of neo-fascism parading as super-nationalism.

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• SOURCE: Time
  1/17/20
  

  Was Martin Luther King Jr. a Republican or a Democrat? The Answer Is Complicated

  by Olivia B. Waxman

  The civil-rights leader’s personal political party affiliation remains a mystery.

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• 1/19/20
  

  Four Speeches by Dr. King That Can Still Guide Us Today

  by Alan Singer

  Martin Luther King, Jr. challenged the war in Vietnam, U.S. imperialism, and laws that victimized working people and the poor, not just racial discrimination.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  12/2/19
  

  How Charlottesville’s Echoes Forced New Zealand to Confront Its History

  A Maori man attacked a statue to raise awareness of his ancestors’ pain. A newspaper covered the story, and a very important reader took action: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  11/26/19
  

  Trump’s xenophobia is an American tradition — but it doesn’t have to be

  by Erika Lee

  Some have always pushed to keep out immigrants, but people have always fought back, too.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  11/12/19
  

  How racial segregation exacerbates flooding in Baton Rouge

  by William Horne

  Strategies of segregation and secession to hoard resources are leaving the whole metropolitan area unprepared for rising waters.

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• SOURCE: History Extra
  11/4/19
  

  As racism row rumbles on, is it time to retire the term ‘Anglo-Saxon’?

  by Michael Wood

  The history world has been afire with a debate about Anglo-Saxon studies. 

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  10/26/19
  

  A Racist Attack Shows How Whiteness Evolves

  by Nell Irvin Painter

  An assault at a New Jersey high school football game had an unexpected cast of characters.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  10/24/19
  

  Ibram X. Kendi Writes Personal Essay on Elijah Cummings' Death and Life Expectancy Inequality

  by Ibram X. Kendi

  Like so many other black men in America, Elijah Cummings died too young.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/23/19
  

  So you want to talk about lynching? Understand this first.

  by Michele Norris

  Let’s face it as the terror and the terrorism it was. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/17/19
  

  A white mob attacked Elijah Cummings for integrating a swimming pool. He was 11.

  by Gillian Brockell

  The Maryland congressman, who died Thursday, had a scar on his face for the rest of his life.

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• SOURCE: Hyperallergic
  9/24/19
  

  How Do We Address a Statue of President Roosevelt That Affirms Racist Hierarchies?

  Almost two years after the fascist rally at Charlottesville around a mediocre statue of Robert E. Lee, the American Museum of Natural History has opened its exhibition Addressing the Statue.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  September 16, 2019
  

  Learning from the Germans by Susan Neiman; Hitler: Only the World Was Enough by Brendan Simms – review

  by Anne McElvoy

  A study of how the US and Germany have dealt with their racist legacies; and a new theory of what drove Hitler.

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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: Black Perspectives
  9/19/19
  

  Unilever's Ads and the History of Sexual Abuse Under Slavery

  by Thomas A. Foster

  Historian Thomas A. Foster discusses the history of the portrayal of Black bodies, and how that has manifested in 2019.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  9/20/19
  

  It's Not Just Justin Trudeau: Canada’s Surprising History of Blackface

  Scandalous images of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau don’t just tarnish his image—they also point to the hidden history of racism and minstrelsy in his country.

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  9/20/19
  

  The Long History of American Slavery Reparations

  by Manisha Sinha

  From the colonial era to today, the bitter legacy of bondage and racial oppression has sparked demands for compensation, with some successes and many broken promises.

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  9/12/19
  

  What White Kids Learn About Race in School

  by Eric Loomis

  Sixty-five years after Brown v. Board of Education, U.S. schools remain largely segregated. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  9/19/19
  

  New Documents Illuminate The University of Texas’s Secret Strategy to Keep Out Black Students

  by Asher Price

  Long-hidden documents show the school’s blueprint for slowing integration during the civil-rights era.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  8/29/19
  

  Why anti-immigration politics hurt white workers

  by Inés Valdez

  No, immigrants aren’t taking your job — but vilifying immigrants helps undermine worker protection.