racism

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• SOURCE: Nature
  9/28/2022
  

  "Nature" Editors Acknowledge Journal's Contributions to Scientific Racism

  The leading cross-disciplinary science publication acknowledges that it has given a platform to the scientifically discredited writings of eugenicists and has an ongoing obligation to ensure that it does not offer further support for oppression justified by the authority of science. 

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• SOURCE: WBUR
  9/26/2022
  

  Education or Trauma: Debating the Movie Presentation of "Till"

  Despite the violence and brutality of the subject matter, historian Keisha Blain calls the upcoming Emmett Till film essential viewing in a time when it can't be assumed that everyone knows the story. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  9/20/2022
  

  National Archives Exhibition Challenges the Meritocratic, Democratic Myths of American Sports

  Sports have long served as a means of inculcating the values of the dominant groups in American society, and sometimes to challenge them. The first sports-related exhibition at the National Archives Museum curates documents and artifacts to tell the story. 

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  9/21/2022
  

  The Defeat of Identity Politics

  by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

  Philosopher Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò argues that the rhetoric of diversity has allowed an "elite capture" of racial justice movements that strips those movements of the impulse to transform society. Historian Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor reviews his new book of essays.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  9/20/2022
  

  Governors DeSantis and Abbott Borrow from the Jim Crow Playbook

  by Greta de Jong

  "Immigration scholars have noted how U.S. foreign policies contributed to the poverty and violence in Central and South America that migrants are fleeing. Yet rather than acknowledge this – along with assuming the moral responsibilities it entails – some GOP leaders denigrate and dehumanize refugees to win support from voters."

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• SOURCE: CNN
  9/15/2022
  

  DeSantis's Stunt Echoes a Cruel Chapter of American History

  by Nicole Hemmer

  The latest immigration stunt shows a Republican party committed to trolling its enemies and disinterested in actual immigration policy.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/14/2022
  

  Los Angeles to Memorialize 1871 Anti-Chinese Massacre

  Architect Annie Chu describes the task of using design and space to evoke an emotional connection to the victims of mass violence whose identities and stories have been largely lost. 

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  9/9/2022
  

  Black Historians Know There Has Never Been Objectivity in Writing the Past

  by Keisha N. Blain

  "Black historians have long recognized the role of the present in shaping our narratives of the past. We have never had the luxury of writing about the past as though it were divorced from present concerns."

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/8/2022
  

  Mourn the Queen, Not the Empire

  by Maya Jasanoff

  As the head of the postwar British Commonwealth, the Queen symbolized the effort to put the brakes on the global wave of decolonization, including deadly and secret campaigns of state violence in Northern Ireland, Kenya, and elsewhere.

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• SOURCE: TIME
  9/15/2022
  

  The Promise and Peril of the "Third Reconstruction"

  by Peniel E. Joseph

  At a time when the nation is balanced precariously between advocates for multiracial democracy and white nationalists, it is important to understand the history and the incompleteness of the expansion of freedom and democracy during Reconstruction. 

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• SOURCE: Foreign Policy
  9/12/2022
  

  Queen Not Innocent of Empire's Sins

  by Howard W. French

  "I bear no ill will toward her following her death. Her empire—and empires more generally—though is another matter."

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  9/13/2022
  

  Black Mississippians Have Been Fighting a Water Crisis for Decades

  by Thomas J. Ward Jr.

  Black residents of the Mississippi Delta began organizing in 1970 for access to water and sewage services; their struggle continues today. 

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• SOURCE: NPR
  9/12/2022
  

  For Many Scholars, Queen's Legacy Inseparable from Colonialism

  Vanderbilt's Moses Ochonu and Wisconsin's Mou Banerjee argue that the Queen's passing calls attention to unfinished business of acknowledging the violence of the British Empire—violence the Queen's image helped to conceal. 

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• SOURCE: NPR
  9/13/2022
  

  Kimberle Crenshaw: Critical Race Theory a Vital Part of American Discourse

  NPR's A Martinez talks to Kimberle Crenshaw, who coined the term "critical race theory," about anti-racism and why she believes it must be part of American discourse.

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• SOURCE: CNN
  9/7/2022
  

  Cherokee Nation Opens Exhibition on Slavery

  Until recently, the Cherokee National History Museum in Oklahoma did not acknowledge slave ownership by tribal members or the efforts of the descendants of the enslaved to claim tribal membership. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/8/2022
  

  Mr. Biden, Tear Down this Highway

  It's time to stop expanding the urban highways that divide communities, perpetuate racial segregation and harm health, and to consider removing them entirely, argues one architectural designer. 

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• SOURCE: Foreign Affairs
  9/5/2022
  

  W.E.B. DuBois's Insight on Race and the Global American Century

  by Zachariah Mampilly

  Both racism and anticommunism helped to minimize the impact of DuBois's thought on international relations, contributing to significant blind spots in the liberal international order. 

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• SOURCE: New York Review of Books
  9/5/2022
  

  The Complicity of Textbooks in America's Racism

  by Eric Foner

  Donald Yacovone is an inheritor of the legacy of WEB DuBois, slogging through the nation's history textbooks to identify the propaganda of white supremacy, says reviewer Eric Foner.

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• 9/4/2022
  

  UN Report Highlights Ongoing Racism in US

  by Alan J. Singer

  The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) called out American health disparities, police abuse and crackdowns on protesters as key failures of the United States to address racial inequality. 

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• SOURCE: Harper's Bazaar
  9/1/2022
  

  The Jackson Water Crisis Latest Chapter in Black Mutual Aid

  by Kaitlyn Greenidge

  The two sides of Mississippi's history are its exploitative oligarchy and the efforts of Black Mississippians and their allies to imagine egalitarian alternatives against the odds. Activists' responses to the collapse of the Jackson water infrastructure will test that spirit.