racism

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  5/18/2022
  

  "Great Replacement" Shows how Many Americans Have Embraced Whites-Only Democracy

  by Adam Serwer

  Whether they blame a secret cabal of elites or the Democratic Party, proponents of "replacement" rhetoric share a belief that legitimate citizenship is racially exclusive and that legitimate elections require white voters to get what they want, echoing anti-immigrant and eugenics rhetoric of the early 20th century.

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• 5/18/2022
  

  Historians on the Mainstreaming of the "Great Replacement" Myth

  by HNN Staff

  This conspiratorial view of a plot by elites to replace whites with nonwhite and immigrants has moved from the far-right fringe to cable news and appears to have played a part in the radicalization of several mass shooters. Historians discuss what it is and what it means. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/15/2022
  

  "Great Replacement" Rhetoric has not Historically Been Out of Place in the Halls of Power

  Mississippi Senator Theodore Bilbo published a book in 1947 declaring that the failure to ensure racial segregation and Anglo-Saxon supremacy would lead to the destruction of American civilization. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  5/17/2022
  

  Buffalo Shooting Exposes How History Shapes the Present

  by Chad Williams

  "Buffalo’s unique history of African American freedom, civil rights struggle and perseverance in the face of structural racism and economic neglect remind us of why Gendron targeted this particular community and why this shooting is especially heinous."

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  5/17/2022
  

  AAIHS Statement on Buffalo Mass Shooting

  by Robert Greene II

  "Black Americans and other marginalized groups in America and around the world have found ways to resist this reprehensible violence. We will all continue to do so. For now, AAIHS wishes to express its condolences to those harmed by the tragedy in Buffalo."

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  5/5/2022
  

  How the Government Aided and Abetted the Theft of Black-Owned Farmland

  A group of scholars estimates more than 300 billion dollars in lost land wealth by Black farm families over the course of the 20th century, with less tangible but still significant losses in economic security and political influence. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  5/16/2022
  

  Buffalo Shooting Reflects Deeply Rooted American Ideas

  by Jesse Curtis

  Labeling the so-called "Great Replacement" a conspiracy theory obscures how closely it hews to commonplace American ideas about race, nation, and who is entitled to rule. 

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  5/3/2022
  

  How Josephine Baker Challenged Racism in Las Vegas

  by Claytee White

  Josephine Baker's brief stand in 1952 didn't forever break the color line in the city's casinos and clubs, but it did help Black Las Vegans push for enduring change. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  5/31/2022
  

  Los Angeles's Response to 1992 Riots Remains Model of How Not to Do It

  by V.N. Trinh

  The strategy of encouraging private business development, without seriously reforming police, fixing public schools, or addressing poverty, proved unequal to the task of promoting justice in LA. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  4/29/2022
  

  Racist Jokes Were the Glue of the LAPD Culture that Led to 1992 Riots

  by Raúl Pérez

  The LAPD was never forced to confront the documented ways that a culture of racial stereotyping and bigoted jokes cemented the systemic abuse of communities of color in the city. 

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• SOURCE: CNN
  4/29/2022
  

  "Pachinko" Tells History of Korean Women in Mid-20th Century Japan

  The Apple+ series, based in a fictionalized narrative of Korean immigration to Japan, concludes with interview footage of eight women, now all more than 90 years old, who lived this history. 

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  4/30/2022
  

  W.E.B. DuBois's Abolition Democracy

  by Gerald Horne

  DuBois understood the impossibility of separating a historical analysis of Reconstruction from the political context of Jim Crow racial totalitarianism and exploitative capitalism. 

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• SOURCE: The Baffler
  4/25/2022
  

  Robert Moses is Dead. Making Him a Bogeyman Keeps Planners from Understanding Racism

  By condemning the big projects Moses favored, planners excuse their own involvement in perpetuating the idea that some neighborhoods and some residents are more valuable than others. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  4/28/2022
  

  Why Isn't Joetha Collier Known as a Victim of Racism in Mississippi?

  by Keisha N. Blain

  A young woman's murder by white men in 1971, on the day she graduated from a newly integrated high school, doesn't fit easily into a narrative framework established by Emmett Till's killing – of martyrdom leading to change for the better.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  4/22/2022
  

  Racist Policing Has Roots in Controlling Sex Work

  by Sarah A. Seo

  Anne Gray Fischer's book shows that police policy toward sexuality in public space changed in ways that made Black women's public lives subject to increased control and that entrenched the discretion of police to stop people for suspected minor offenses that is associated with "broken windows" policing today. 

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• SOURCE: Religion News Services
  4/20/2022
  

  Penn Law Prof Amy Wax's Anti-Indian Rant Excludes Inconvenient History

  by Suhag Shukla

  Attributing Indian American criticism of racism to "resentment" of "the west" is rooted in ignorance of the colonial looting of the Indian subcontinent and the experiences of South Asians in general and Hindus in particular in the United States. 

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian
  4/19/2022
  

  Racism and the 19th Century Yellow Fever Epidemic in New Orleans

  by Karin Wulf

  Karin Wulf interviews Kathryn Olivarius about her new book on the social and racial factors that prolonged a contagious epidemic that may have killed as many as 150,000 people in New Orleans between 1803 and 1861. 

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  4/19/2022
  

  T. Thomas Fortune: The Forgotten Founder of Abolition Democracy

  by Robin D.G. Kelley

  T. Thomas Fortune's critique of Reconstruction is a radical intellectual document that has valuable lessons for the activists and scholars associated with the prison abolition movement. 

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  4/18/2022
  

  American Militarism is the Key to Understanding Today's Violence Against Asian Women

  Since the Philippine-American war in the 1890s, the sexual exploitation of Asian women has gone hand in hand with American militarism in the Pacific. It's foolish to pretend that this history has nothing to do with attacks on Asian American women today. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  4/19/2022
  

  New TV Shows Reduce "Black Excellence" to Materialism

  by Tanisha C. Ford

  Equating excellence with opulence, and portraying the Black wealthy as champions of progress, ignores many of the ongoing concerns of Black Americans and highlights historically significant class divisions among African Americans.