racism

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• SOURCE: CNN
  2/13/19
  

  Union demands apology after seeing Confederate book displayed in congressman's office

  Members of a federal labor union visiting a Georgia Republican's congressional office Monday said they discovered a 19th-century book on display that they considered "racially offensive."

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  2/12/19
  

  Secrets of 1946 Mass Lynching Could Be Revealed After Court Ruling

  On Monday, the United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, in Atlanta, affirmed a lower court’s ruling that had ordered the release of the grand jury transcripts from 1946.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/12/19
  

  Will Harvard continue to fail Asian Americans — or will it learn from the past?

  by Renee Tajima-Peña

  Harvard does not have an Asian American studies program. 

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• SOURCE: Time
  2/11/19
  

  The Hidden Segregation of Military Executions During the Civil Rights Movement

  How did the United States Army, during the early years of the civil rights movement, deal with the crucible issues of race and capital punishment?

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  2/12/19
  

  Ibram X. Kendi: A Reading List for Ralph Northam

  by Ibram X. Kendi

  "Here’s my own anti-racist reading list for Northam and my fellow Americans who are truly awakening after their own blackface moment. It is for people realizing they were taught by their relatives and friends and the media how to be racist."

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  2/11/19
  

  Trump’s Trail of Fears

  by Jamelle Bouie

  The president, channeling his hero Andrew Jackson, continues to champion a particularly virulent form of reactionary white majoritarianism.

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• SOURCE: Pew Research
  2/11/19
  

  About a third of Americans say blackface in a Halloween costume is acceptable at least sometimes

  The survey was conducted almost entirely before news broke about Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam and other high-profile politicians who have been accused of wearing blackface as part of costumes when they were younger.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/11/19
  

  Historians on The Books Ralph Northam Should Read To Better Understand Racism

  Featuring Annette Gordon-Reed, Eric Foner, Caroline Janney, Grace Hale, Stephanie Smallwood, Sarah Milov and many others!

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• SOURCE: Mother Jones
  2/8/19
  

  Peter Wallenstein Talks About Why White Supremacy “Must Die and Yet Will Not Die”

  Professor Peter Wallenstein explains how the present mess in Virginia connects to the state’s past.

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• SOURCE: CNN
  2/9/19
  

  Why this year's Black History Month is pivotal

  by Peniel Joseph

  In 2019, slavery's aftermath hovers over contemporary American race relations in deep and profoundly disturbing ways.

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• SOURCE: New York Magazine
  2/9/19
  

  How NYU and Food-Service Giant Aramark Stumbled Into a Black History Month PR Fiasco

  Last February, a rather intense controversy erupted at New York University over the menu offered by one dining hall as part of a Black History Month celebration.

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• SOURCE: Slate
  2/4/19
  

  Red Dead Redemption 2 Confronts the U.S.’s Racist Past and Lets You Do Something About It

  by Jonathon S. Jones

  Poke around the game’s fictional South and you’ll find cross-burning Klansmen, whom you are free to kill.

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  2/6/19
  

  Silencing Black Women in the White Courtroom

  by Denise Lynn

  Ruby McCollum’s case is part of the long history of the carceral state’s heavy-handed and unjust policing of Black women.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  2/7/19
  

  Why Won’t Blackface Go Away? It’s Part of America’s Troubled Cultural Legacy

  by Wil Haygood

  For more than 180 years, racist stereotypes have been used to entertain.

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• 2/10/19
  

  The American Tourist in Paris: A Retrospective

  by Lauren Jannette

  Although no longer breaking furniture, running out on checks, and throwing racist fits about the evening’s entertainment, Americans remain an integral part of Paris’s continued debates over the benefits and detriments of being one of the world’s largest tourists destinations. 

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• SOURCE: New Yorker
  2/6/19
  

  A Racial Reckoning for Democratic Leaders in Virginia

  by Jelani Cobb

  In disavowing his yearbook photo but admitting to wearing blackface on another occasion, Virginia Governor Ralph Northam implies that he is being castigated for the wrong instance of minstrelsy.

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• SOURCE: WHYY.org
  2/5/19
  

  Why we keep looking at the Northam photo

  by Johnathon Zimmerman

  Because we all know — in our hearts — that racism is America’s original sin. 

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• SOURCE: Democracy Now!
  2/4/`9
  

  Video of the Week 1: Rhae Lynn Barnes on the History of Blackface and the Virginia Racism Scandal

  Americans Must Face Violent History of Blackface Amid Virginia Gov. Racist Photo Scandal

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• SOURCE: New Yorker
  2/4/19
  

  Eric Lott on Ralph Northam and the History of Blackface

  by Isaac Chotiner

  In an interview, Eric Lott discusses the subject of blackface and its historical role in American politics, culture, and racism.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/4/19
  

  How the Trump administration’s Title IX proposals threaten to undo #MeToo

  by Ruth Lawlor

  The changes would make campus sexual assault harder to punish, while increasing the burdens on black men.