racism

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/30/2020
  

  Records in 1946 Lynching Case Must Remain Sealed, Court Rules

  No one was ever charged in the killing of two black couples by a group of white men in rural Georgia, known as the Moore’s Ford lynchings.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  3/29/2020
  

  How Asian-American Leaders Are Grappling With Xenophobia Amid Coronavirus

  As Asian-Americans face racist attacks and President Trump has tied the virus to China, community and political leaders have tried to comfort constituents. But even they admit to feeling unnerved.

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• 3/27/2020
  

  A New Lease on Life for the "Jewish Nose" Lie

  by Moshe Phillips

  Anti-Semitic humor helps bigotry infiltrate mainstream culture and discourse.

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• 3/27/2020
  

  DC Comics and the American Dilemma of Race

  by Patrick L. Hamilton and Allan W. Austin

  Superhero popular culture has always been embedded within American racial attitudes, reflecting and even contributing to them in ways that reveal goodwill is not sufficient, in and of itself, to fix our problems.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  3/25/2020
  

  This Is Just the Beginning

  by Yascha Mounk

  If we commit to strict social distancing now, we can radically curtail the number of new cases and buy time—time to put in place the measures we need to contain the pandemic in a less economically destructive way.

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• SOURCE: Tropics of Meta
  3/22/2020
  

  The History of Asian American Discrimination in Public Health

  by Stanley Thangaraj

  The popularity of various pseudo-scientific, ad hoc religious, and other problematic discourses about the coronavirus are jeopardizing national and global health. 

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• SOURCE: Daily Beast
  3/25/2020
  

  ‘East Lake Meadows’ Reveals the Heartbreaking Reality of America’s Public-Housing Crisis

  The Ken Burns-produced PBS documentary “East Lake Meadows: A Public Housing Story” examines our public-housing nightmare through the lens of a storied Atlanta housing project.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  3/24/2020
  

  Trump Is Inciting a Coronavirus Culture War to Save Himself

  by Adam Serwer

  The president’s attempt to racialize the pandemic is a cover-up of the fact that he trusted false reassurances from Beijing.

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• SOURCE: NBC News
  3/22/2020
  

  Progress is Why Viruses Aren't Named After Locations Anymore

  While the White House has stood by President Donald Trump's frequent use of the phrase "Chinese virus" in reference to COVID-19 experts say the argument just doesn't hold up.

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• SOURCE: Ohio State News
  3/21/2020
  

  Why is a 16-Year-Old Book on Slavery so Popular Now?  

  The alt-right take on the book, in a nutshell: The fact that some white Christians were once held as slaves by black Muslims essentially excuses slavery in America.

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• SOURCE: ArtForum
  3/24/2020
  

  Maurice Berger (1957–2020)

  Critic, curator, and cultural historian Maurice Berger, whose work examined the role of race in visual culture, has died of complications related to the novel coronavirus.

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• 3/22/2020
  

  Plots Against America?: Jim Crow was Homegrown Fascism

  by Guy Lancaster

  HBO’s prestige adaptation of Philip Roth’s 2004 novel The Plot Against America makes it worthwhile to examine whether fascism is really so alien to the United States as many wish to believe.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/13/2020
  

  Work Requirements are Catastrophic in a Pandemic

  by Elisa Minoff

  Instead, we should be implementing policies that support people’s work in the wage labor force and make it possible for working families to make ends meet.

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• SOURCE: Citylab
  3/14/2020
  

  Why You Should Stop Joking That Black People Are Immune to Coronavirus

  by Brentin Mock

  As Dr. Rana Hogarth wrote in her book Medicalizing Blackness about the 1793 yellow fever outbreak in Philadelphia: “The idea of innate black immunity placed an undue burden on the city’s black inhabitants."

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• SOURCE: Brookings Institution
  3/16/2020
  

  Hurricane Katrina Provides Lessons about Closing Campuses During the Coronavirus Crisis

  by Andre M. Perry

  Students in New Orleans needed resources to return to normalcy. But when racial wealth gaps are the norm, a stumble can become a fall.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  3/18/2020
  

  The ‘Chinese Virus’ Is a Test. Don’t Fail It.

  by Graeme Wood

  Controversies like these are a perfect example of what Steve Bannon, Trump’s former campaign manager, called “flooding the zone with s&%t”—distracting us from what matters with copious flushes of what doesn’t. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/13/2020
  

  A White Republican Mayor Seeks the Truth about Tulsa’s Race Massacre a Century Ago

  Bynum, a white Republican in deeply red Oklahoma, said he would not back down from trying to find answers to what happened.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/16/2020
  

  When Arizona Elected a Mexican Immigrant Governor

  Border Patrol agents once ordered an elderly Hispanic man out of his vehicle and requested his identity papers, which showed that he was a Mexican-born immigrant named Raúl H. Castro. Turns out he was Arizona’s former governor.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  3/14/2020
  

  A History Book that Isn't: Finding a Way to Teach Racism to a New Generation

  Ibram X. Kendi and Jason Reynolds's new book is Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You. Right from its first few pages the authors promise that "this is not a history book."

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  3/16/2020
  

  Coronavirus: Three Lessons from the AIDS Crisis

  by Laurie Marhoefer

  The U.S. made serious mistakes when the HIV virus and AIDS emerged. Those errors cost many lives. But our nation learned a few things, too.