racism

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• SOURCE: The Chronicle Review
  4/18/19
  

  Being a Black Academic in America

  Featuring short essays by historians Keisha N. Blain, Marcia Chatelain, Gerald Early, Stefan M. Bradley, and Noliwe M. Rook.

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• SOURCE: Politico
  4/18/19
  

  Medal of Honor review sought for minority World War I heroes

  Lawmakers want the Pentagon to take another look at scores of soldiers who may have been denied the nation's highest military honor due to their race or religion.

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  4/16/19
  

  Immigration, Race, and Women’s Rights, 1919 and Today

  by Arnold R. Isaacs

  The comparison couldn’t, in many ways, be grimmer or more telling. 

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• SOURCE: New Yorker
  4/12/19
  

  The Campaign to Remove a Shocking Painting from the French Assembly

  One panel of the painting is meant to commemorate the abolition of slavery in France, in 1794, but it perpetuates grotesque racist stereotypes.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/11/19
  

  ‘Not a racist bone in his body’: The origins of the default defense against racism

  by Christopher Petrella and Justin Gomer

  The rise of the colorblind ideology that prevents us from addressing racism.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  4/8/19
  

  2 Arrested in Vandalism of Slave Memorial at University of North Carolina

  The memorial is dedicated to slaves and African-American workers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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• SOURCE: Time
  4/2/19
  

  How Reconstruction Still Shapes American Racism

  by Henry Lewis Gates, Jr.

  Regardless of its brevity, Reconstruction remains one of the most pivotal eras in the history of race relations in American history —­ and probably the most misunderstood.

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• SOURCE: BBC News
  3/31/19
  

  New Orleans mayor to apologise for 1891 lynching of Italian-Americans

  John Fratta, from the Order of the Sons of Italy, says the apology is about making people more aware of the episode - particularly because "they don't teach this in schools".

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  3/27/19
  

  Mammy Jars Mock Black People. Why Are They Still Collected?

  Racist objects, created as propaganda tools during the Jim Crow era, reflect ugly stereotypes about black people. Yet some people see nostalgia, not dehumanization, in the memorabilia.

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  4/1/19
  

  Thirteen professors withdraw from Yale's Ethnicity, Race and Migration program in protest

  Their move is casting doubt on a big faculty-diversity initiative.

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• SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  3/24/19
  

  The New Zealand Shooting and the eternal fear of “race suicide”

  by Jonathon Zimmerman

  Put simply, the fear of being flooded by foreign hordes is baked into our national DNA. And it all starts with the question of fertility.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/22/19
  

  How New York’s new monument whitewashes the women’s rights movement

  by Martha S. Jones

  It offers a narrow vision of the activists who fought for equality.

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  3/25/19
  

  ‘Loyal Slave’ Monuments Tell a Racist Lie About American History

  by Kali Holloway

  These monuments—nearly all of them still standing—prop up the fantasy that slaves were happy, loyal, and devoted to those who enslaved them.

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  3/21/19
  

  The New Zealand Shooting and the Great-Man Theory of Misery

  by Jelani Cobb

  Most of the men who committed these recent acts of terror composed manifestos. A sense of history turning on the fulcrum of a single man’s actions is a theme within them. 

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  3/18/19
  

  Racists in Congress fought statehood for Hawaii, but lost that battle 60 years ago

  by Sarah Miller Davenport

  Sixty years ago, Dwight Eisenhower signed legislation making Hawaii America’s 50th state. 

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• SOURCE: New York Review of Books
  3/18/19
  

  The History of Reparations

  by Katherine Franke

  From the Civil War to today. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/9/19
  

  The Black Gun Owner Next Door

  by Tiya Miles

  I’m an African-American historian and, on most issues, decidedly liberal. Could I rethink my anti-gun stance?

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• SOURCE: The Hill
  3/10/19
  

  Trump campaign adviser dismisses White House diversity question, asks about black people in Lincoln admin

  "Is Abraham Lincoln a racist because he didn't have a black person in his West Wing?," asked Trump 2020 campaign adviser Katrina Pierson.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/6/19
  

  Policing black Americans is a long-standing, and ugly, American tradition

  by Vanessa Holden and Edward E. Baptist

  A new database of all the fugitive slave ads from U.S. and colonial history reveal how white Americans trained and incentivized themselves to police black Americans’ movements.

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  3/4/19
  

  The Trouble With Classics Continues

  New video shows exactly what was said during a heated discussion at the annual gathering of classicists in January. Does it change anything?