violence

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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: Truthout
  4/22/2022
  

  Politics as Usual Won't Stop Mass Shootings – A Discussion with Gun Culture Scholar Pat Blanchfield

  Our society has developed and institutionalized a set of public rituals of disbelief and incredulity around mass shootings that direct anger and pain away from organizing and let politicians off the hook. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  4/7/2022
  

  Citizen Tour Guides Protect the Memory of Civil Rights Killings in Mississippi

  "Obbie is of the opinion that if something needs to get done, especially something as important as ensuring that the legacy of your community and family doesn’t get erased, you’d better first employ yourself to do something about it."

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• SOURCE: Vice
  3/24/2022
  

  The Latest Technology Helping Gun Owners Violate Machine Gun Laws

  Nearly a century of legislation aimed at keeping the public from having fully automatic weapons is being subverted by internet trafficking in cheap devices that modify popular Glock pistols to work as mini-machine guns. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  3/16/2022
  

  Don't Use Anti-Asian Violence to Throw More Money at Police

  by Crystal Jing Luo

  Business interests in Oakland have hijacked the safety concerns of Asian Americans to support arming police in service of real estate development that threatens low-income housing. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  2/23/2022
  

  The Sandy Hook Settlement Could Transform the Marketing of Guns

  by Tracy L. Barnett

  The settlement between Remington and the families of victims does not accept fault, but it does establish the dangerous connection between the marketing of guns as totems of masculinity and the damage done by young men who acquire them with ease. 

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• SOURCE: Los Angeles Review of Books
  2/9/2022
  

  Crossing the Blood Meridian: Cormac McCarthy as an American Historian

  by Bennett Parten

  "One of the most striking things about reading Blood Meridian now, almost 40 years since its release, is that it anticipates some of the major historical turns of the past decades."

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• SOURCE: NPR
  2/8/2022
  

  Black Activists Used Lynching Souvenirs to Expose America's Racist Violence

  Filmmaker Christine Turner has examined the souvenir postcards produced at lynchings for evidence of the planning and community sanction given to racist terrorism. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  12/5/2021
  

  Forget "Ghost Guns" and other Media Panics. Gun Capitalism is the Underlying Problem of a Violent Society

  by Andrew C. McKevitt

  A long series of moral panics over the dangers of specific guns (and their imagined users) has hidden the real danger to Americans: the profitability (and legality) of selling deadly weapons.

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• SOURCE: WHYY
  12/3/2021
  

  Blair Mountain, West Virginia Still Shows the Grip of the Coal Industry

  “It was kind of weird growing up, knowing that there was a war fought here and nobody knew about it, and there’s no monuments to it,” Professor Chuck Keeney said. Others believe the story of the mine wars has been suppressed because it challenges the image of big coal as a benevolent force in the state. 

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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."