violence

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• SOURCE: Salon
  11/23/2021
  

  Does Rittenhouse Show America's Crossed a Rubicon?

  by Jim Sleeper

  Do those applauding Kyle Rittenhouse's acquittal understand the chaos that could be unleashed when (not if) armed vigilante squads feel invited to show up not just at protests but at polling places? 

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• SOURCE: Editorial Board
  11/15/2021
  

  Rittenhouse's Defense is Trying to Connect to a Long History of State Support for White Vigilantism

  by Mia Brett

  Police tolerance and even encouragement of the presence of Kyle Rittenhouse and other vigilantes on the streets of Kenosha in August 2020 was no anomaly. 

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• 11/15/2021
  

  Historians on the Kyle Rittenhouse Trial

  As Kyle Rittenhouse's trial advances to jury deliberation, historians weigh in. 

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• 11/11/2021
  

  Kyle's Tears

  by Joe Lowndes

  Kyle Rittenhouse's demeanor at trial shows the difficulty of his case; he presents a figure that normalizes and sanitizes the violent core of the vigilante movement he represents.

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• SOURCE: Gawker
  11/16/2021
  

  Kyle Rittenhouse is an American

  by Patrick Blanchfield

  "The impulse to reconstruct that night’s chaos as though watching a 21st century Rashomon, is a trap."

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• 11/14/2021
  

  Will SCOTUS Force Us All to Find Out How Polite an Armed Society Will Be?

  by Jim Zirin

  The Supreme Court's oral arguments in a challenge to New York State's gun laws suggest the court is willing to defy precedent and history and assume a power that the Constitution reserves to the people and states, forcing all communities to accept the concealed carrying of firearms.

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• 11/7/2021
  

  Citizen's Arrest Law at Center of Trial of Arbery's Killers Originated in Slavery

  by Alan J. Singer

  The three men on trial for killing Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia are counting on a jury to accept their claim that they were executing a citizen's arrest on Arbery. Georgia's citizen's arrest law, since repealed, shares in the racist history of similar laws across the nation. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  10/24/2021
  

  150 Years Ago, a Mob Attacked Los Angeles's Chinese Community

  by Reece Jones

  It's essential to understand white supremacy as a national phenomenon that defended the color line against multiple groups and linked white identity to the nation's borders. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  10/27/2021
  

  There's Little Doubt: The Second Amendment Threatens the First

  by Diana Palmer and Timothy Zick

  "In short, the visible presence of firearms increases the risk of violence and death when exercising one’s First Amendment rights."

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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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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  9/23/2021
  

  A Parable of All-American Violence

  by Kelly Denton-Borhaug

  The United States cannot truly end the Afghan war without reckoning with the effects of normalizing violence as a means of politics. 

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• SOURCE: History.com
  9/14/2021
  

  The 1906 Atlanta Race Massacre: How Fearmongering Led to Violence

  The 1906 Atlanta Race Riots, a series of mob attacks on Black residents and their homes and businesses, originated in fears of black political and economic power that were stoked by the local press with fabricated, sensational stories of Black criminality. 

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• SOURCE: Houma Today
  9/14/2021
  

  Did the FBI Fail to Investigate Civil Rights Killing Cold Cases?

  The Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act of 2008 authorizes the FBI to prosecute surviing suspects in acts of racist terrorism. It's not clear that they have exercised this power vigilantly. 

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• SOURCE: Tampa Bay Times
  9/1/2021
  

  The Last House in Historic Rosewood, Florida May Become a Museum

  “It’s a place that needs to be remembered,” said Lizzie Jenkins, 82, whose aunt escaped the massacre. “That house is part of who I am.”

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  8/30/2021
  

  The 100th Anniversary of the Biggest Uprising Since the Civil War

  by Samuel Fleischman

  West Virginia coal country needs to recover the tradition of solidarity that developed during the state's deadly mine wars to move to a fair post-coal future. 

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• 8/8/2021
  

  Drug Prohibition and the Political Roots of Cartel Violence in Mexico

  by Benjamin T. Smith

  Violence is not so much in the DNA of the drug trade as the DNA of drug prohibition. And until both American and Mexican police forces stop treating it like a war, the violence won’t stop.

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• SOURCE: Public Books
  8/3/2021
  

  The Migration Crisis is a Gendered Violence Crisis

  by Laura Briggs and María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo

  Central American women are frequently pushed to migrate by the threat of sexual violence. American policy inflicts further gendered harm through family separation and border militarization. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  7/29/2021
  

  Addressing Gun Violence Means Looking Beyond Policing

  by Menika Dirkson

  Between 1969 and 1976, Philadelphia saw success with a program to connect youth to social services, education and work opportunity, but turned toward militarized policing in the 1970s. This history should guide urban leaders away from the "tough on crime" approach.

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• SOURCE: The Metropole
  6/14/2021
  

  Hyper-Segregation, Inequality, And Murder Rates — A Review Of “The Ecology Of Homicide”

  by Menika Dirkson

  The late historian Eric Schneider uses criminal court records to argue that Philadelphia's violent crime rate is an ecological phenomenon, in which public policy decisions and private actions created conditions for spikes in violence. 

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• SOURCE: Eurozine
  6/3/2021
  

  The Unbearable Easiness of Killing

  by Arie M. Dubnov

  "As a colleague justly commented, it is only helpful to call a situation ‘complicated’ if one is committed to unfolding the package, willing to examine its contents and prepared to be surprised by what one finds hidden inside."