racism

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• 10/17/2021
  

  "The Essential Kerner Commission Report" Links Past and Present, but Abridges the Committee's Process

  by James Thornton Harris

  The Kerner Commission shocked Lyndon Johnson and much of white America by insisting that "the Negro problem" was in fact a problem of pervasive white racism. Two books are essential reading for understanding the commission's work and it's unmet demands. 

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• SOURCE: Woodrow Wilson Center and National History Center
  10/15/2021
  

  Divisions: A New History of Racism and Resistance in America’s World War II Military (Washington History Seminar, Mon. Oct. 18)

  Thomas Guglielmo joins the Washington History Seminar to discuss his new history of resistance to racism within the military during the second world war. Monday, October 18, 4:00 PM eastern. 

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  10/11/2021
  

  Canada is Going through its Own History Wars

  by Ian Rocksborough-Smith

  "To what degree will well-established professional historians and scholars respond and engage with younger generations of activists, intellectuals and cultural workers adamant about centring the experiences of marginalized people?"

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• SOURCE: KQED
  10/11/2021
  

  Historian Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on the Structures of Racial Inequality and Social Movements Fighting It

  “In the United States, it’s very stark that the past is not yet past. Problems that we think of as historical in fact continue to impact our lives on a daily basis.”

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  10/12/2021
  

  Jack Johnson and Africa: Boxing and Race in Colonial Africa

  by Abraham Tapiwa Seda

  Jack Johnson's achievement as the world heavyweight champion had cultural significance far beyond the United States, as European colonial regimes that had used sports like boxing as instruments of social control found that they could also be instruments of rebellion and rejection of white supremacy.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  10/12/2021
  

  Built on the Bodies of Slaves: How Africa Was Erased from the History of the Modern World

  by Howard W. French

  Popular understandings of history have generally ignored the significance of Africa and Africans in the establishment of the interconnected world and modernity. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  10/13/2021
  

  Ryan Russell: Jon Gruden Emails Should Have Shocked Me. They Didn't

  "The long delay in disclosing these emails, coupled with their conversational nature, suggests that others in the N.F.L. are, at best, tolerant of these divisive views. At worst, they share them."

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• SOURCE: NextCity
  10/11/2021
  

  In Open Letter, City Planning Officials Acknowledge Agencies' Role in Racist Development Decisions

  "'Our society is structured around white supremacy,' Philadelphia Planning Commission head Eleanor Sharpe says. 'It’s not a debate, but there’s this fear to acknowledge it. That fear serves the retention of the systems that are not working'."

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• SOURCE: Public Books
  10/6/2021
  

  "No There There": Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on the Future of the Left

  "I’m sitting in the car, barreling down the highway, asking myself, 'What happened in my life that has put me in this position where I have to like listen to this &%$*@ nonsense?' I needed to leave. But like most people, I needed the health insurance."

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• SOURCE: Labor and Working Class History Association
  10/12/2021
  

  Toni Gilpin on Her New Book "The Long Deep Grudge"

  "I was motivated in large part to write The Long Deep Grudge because I do believe the FE’s story has relevance for those seeking to revitalize the labor movement."

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• SOURCE: NPR
  10/10/2021
  

  How a Black Family Got Their Beach Back

  The historic Bruce's Beach case is inspiring social justice leaders and reparations activists to fight for other Black families whose ancestors were also victims of land theft in the United States.

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  10/1/2021
  

  Teaching the Good and Bad of History Empowers Students to Build Just Communities

  by Mirelsie Velázquez

  Oklahoma's new law restricting teaching about past racial atrocities will make it hard to teach about how Black and Native Oklahomans have responded to discrimination and fought for racial justice. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  10/1/2021
  

  New "Wonder Years" Revives a 1970s Tactic for Diversifying TV. Will it Work?

  by Kate L. Flach

  The technique of "racial inversion" was intended in the 1970s to encourage white viewers to empathize with Black characters. Today, as then, the results show that TV alone can't bridge the nation's racial divisions. 

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian
  10/5/2021
  

  Before Rhode Island's State House was Built, a Providence Mob Destroyed the Neighborhood

  A drunken sailor's brawl in 1831 kicked off four days of rioting targeting the free Black population of the Snowtown neighborhood; the stigma attached to the area allowed the state of Rhode Island to raze the area to build the state capitol. 

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• SOURCE: Public Books
  10/7/2021
  

  History Answers the Inexplicable: Interview with Madeline Hsu

  by Shirley Lung

  "Asian Pacific Americans is a census category. It does not reflect the lived experiences, in fact, of many ethnic Asian persons living in the United States....But it is politically a necessity, in part because of the racial projects at work. These killings were racially motivated."

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• SOURCE: NPR
  10/3/2021
  

  The National Monument Audit Asks: Who Do American Honor Most?

  A study of 50,000 monuments by Monument Lab shows Lincoln, Washington and Columbus are still broadly honored in public places, but mermaids have more monuments than congresswomen do. 

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• SOURCE: Public Books
  10/5/2021
  

  Freedom Education: Dialogues Between Top Scholars and Grad Students

  by Nathan D.B. Connolly and Stuart Schrader

  Nathan D.B. Connolly and Stuart Schrader introduce a series of interviews examining the connections of scholarship and organizing for justice. 

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• SOURCE: NPR
  10/3/2021
  

  Bryan Stevenson's Legacy Museum in Montgomery Aims for Truth Telling

  "I do think there's something powerful when you're standing in these spaces learning about this history, knowing that the soil you're standing on is the same soil where enslaved people sweated."

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• SOURCE: Texas Monthly
  9/30/2021
  

  Monica Muñoz Martinez Is Setting the Record Straight on Texas’s History of Border Violence

  "As a historian, when I’m researching these events of racist violence that have not been documented, I don’t know what is going to happen or what the outcome will be. It is really hard to read newspaper articles that celebrate violence."

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• 10/3/2021
  

  A House Still Divided (Part 2)

  by Walter G. Moss

  There are signs that Americans can begin to resolve the fierce struggle underway about what kind of nation we will be.