immigration 
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SOURCE: Labor and Working Class History Association
5/4/2022
The Laundry Workers' Uprising and the Fight for Democratic Unionism
by Jenny Carson
African American and Black Caribbean immigrant women were key organizers of New York laundry workers who pushed for a union movement that rejected divisions of occupation, race and nationality in favor of workplace democracy.
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SOURCE: Texas Tribune
4/18/2022
Texas Governors Have Politicized "Border Security" for Decades. What Have They Accomplished?
Texas governors since 9/11 have pledged billions to secure the state's border with Mexico, but a lack of accountability suggests that electoral and partisan concerns have been the key motive.
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SOURCE: Dame
3/14/2022
How Disinformation Powers Vigilantism
Right wing misinformation has linked the nation's borders with race war discourse that encourages vigilantism, according to historian Carly Goodman.
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SOURCE: The Conversation
2/21/2022
Understanding Ukrainian-Americans' Commitment to Cultural Heritage – and National Sovereignty
by Katja Kolcio
"Participating in Ukrainian arts and culture is a conscientious act of preserving national identity and culture for Ukrainian Americans, including my own family."
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2/27/2022
Bridget the Grocer and the First American Kennedys
by Neal Thompson
The history of the Irish immigrant Kennedys has long focused on its prominent men. A new book looks to JFK's grandmother Bridget Murphy Kennedy as the foundation of the family and a neglected figure for understanding immigration, urban life, and the changing of American politics.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
2/14/2022
Today's Asylum Seekers Carry on the Freedom Struggle of Enslaved Americans
by Sean Gallagher
Moving across the nation's boundaries was integral to the efforts of enslaved people to secure freedom; migrants today carry the legacy of that struggle, despite the cruelty of American immigration policy.
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2/13/2022
The Nazi in the Classroom
by Gary B. Ostrower
American student Edward Sittler adopted German citizenship after the outbreak of World War II and became a Nazi propagandist. After the war, his past was revealed to the public and the Long Island college where he had been teaching German, launching a debate about citizenship, loyalty, and the limits of academic freedom.
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SOURCE: TIME
1/24/2022
How the Pandemic and Anti-Asian Violence Spurred 2 States to Change History Lessons
The introduction of requirements to teach the history of Asian Americans is bumping up against laws in other states that would make it difficult for teachers to address topics like violence, immigration restrictions, and internment.
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SOURCE: Teen Vogue
12/31/2021
The DC Punk Scene Relied on the Local Latinx Community
by Mike Amezcua
"A big piece is missing from the stories told about punk and hardcore in the 1980s: Primarily, that marginalized spaces and communities in urban America gave a stage to the predominantly white subculture."
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
1/5/2022
The US Has Long Exploited the Legally Ambiguous Status of Guantanamo Bay
by Jana Lipman
The use of the naval base at Guantanamo bay for the detention of both suspected terrorists and refugees and migrants reflects the place's status as outside both Cuban and U.S. law. Since the end of the Spanish-American war, Cuban workers have understood the threat of abuse this status enables.
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SOURCE: New York Times
1/4/2022
Lisa Brodyaga, Crusading Lawyer for Immigrants’ Rights, Dies at 81
“I like to be underestimated,” she once told law students at the University of Miami. “I like to have people think, ‘She’s just a hick lawyer.’” She added: “Go ahead, I dare you. Dismiss me.”
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SOURCE: New York Times
12/2/2021
In Zemmour, France's Old Bigotry Finds New Voice
by Mitchell Abidor and Miguel Lago
Presidential candidate Éric Zemmour's Jewishness should not be a shield for his manipulation of France's historical bigotries for political gain.
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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: Foreign Policy
11/1/2021
Boris Johnson’s Roman Fantasies
by Mateusz Fafinsky
Boris Johnson's recent statements that the collapse of Rome was caused by open borders are well out of step with historical understanding of the fragmenting of the Roman empire, but in line with a long legacy of political misappropriation of Rome as an allegory for the danger of immigrants.
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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: New York Times
10/4/2021
What America Owes Haitian Asylum Seekers
by Michael Posner
"The plight of the Haitians has been further complicated by decades of misrule, corruption and brutality by a series of Haitian governments that received steady U.S. financial and political support despite egregious records on human rights."
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
9/24/2021
The Latest Episode in the History of American Mistreatment of Haitian Migrants
by Edwidge Danticat
Novelist Edwidge Danticat explains the lengthy history of mistreatment of Haitian migrants by American authorities.
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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: NPR
9/26/2021
Kathleen Belew Explains the White Supremacist "Great Replacement" Ideology
NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with Kathleen Belew, co-editor of "A Field Guide to White Supremacy" about Great Replacement Theory, also known as White Replacement Theory.
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9/26/2021
The Border and the Contingent Status of Mexican Workers
by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
In this excerpt from her new book "Not 'A Nation of Immigrants'," Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz argues that the politics of the border and the racialization of Mexican laborers has been a longstanding and glaring exception to the American myth of welcoming immigrants.
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