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SOURCE: The Atlantic
7/2/2023
Why We are Still Debating Birthright Citizenship
by Martha S. Jones
Opposition to birthright citizenship has, historically and today, reflected opposition to the idea of equal membership in the political community of the nation and has been inextricable from the idea that white Americans should be privileged citizens, argues the leading historian of the subject.
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SOURCE: Jewish Currents
7/5/2023
Does Germany's Holocaust Education Give Cover to Nativism?
The anti-antisemitism of German Holocaust education is based on the implicit premise that immigrants will identify with a sense of shame held by ethnic Germans. If those immigrants ask instead whether contemporary nativism could result in their own persecution, it is seen as a sign of their non-Germanness.
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SOURCE: Boston Review
4/4/2023
Violence and the Unmaking of Asian-American Exceptionalism
by Gaiutra Bahadur
A series of violent anti-Asian attacks in the author's community during the 1990s underscores the debt Asian Americans owe to the African American movements for emancipation and civil rights, and the need for cross-racial solidarity in the face of racist oppression.
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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: New York Times
9/8/2022
It's Not Trump's GOP, it's Pat Buchanan's
by Nicole Hemmer
Republicans have come around to Pat Buchanan's vision of a hard-right, pessimistic and grievance-driven party. The question now is whether they will soften that vision in pursuit of a majority of voters, or try to keep power as a minority party.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
9/6/2022
Nicole Hemmer on the Fall of the Republican Party
by Kim Phillips-Fein
The seeds of today's hard right populism, nativism and conspiratorialism were present in the GOP for decades, argues historian Kim Phillips-Fein.
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8/7/2022
The COVID Era is the Latest Episode of Medical Scapegoating of Asian Immigrants
by Catherine Ceniza Choy
From smallpox to COVID, Asian Americans have been blamed and attacked for supposedly causing disease, while their contributions to American health have been ignored. This medical scapegoating and the violence that often follow it demonstrate the need to teach more Asian American history.
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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: Saturday Evening Post
1/5/2021
The Dangerous “Patriotism” of the January 6 Insurrection
by Ben Railton
The participants in the attack on the Capitol a year ago reflected a "mythic patriotism" founded on the belief in an authentic, white, Christian nation under attack by enemies dangerous enough to justify any measures in opposition.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
12/7/2021
The Trump-Bannon Feud Sheds Light on the Direction of the Far Right
Nicole Hemmer explains to Post columnist Greg Sargent that Bannon represents an explicitly anti-democratic strain of nationalism that is separate from the political allegiance of many conservatives to Donald Trump.
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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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10/17/2021
“Some of Our Superpatriots are Simply Going Crazy”: America's Response to the Fall of France
by Michael S. Neiberg
The fall of France in 1940 disrupted Americans' understandings of their stable and secure place in the world. One response was intense nativism and paranoia about spies and subversives that resonate with today's pandemic response.
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SOURCE: Axios
9/29/2021
Racist "Replacement" Theory Goes Mainstream
"White replacement theory" posits the existence of a plot to change America's racial composition by methodically enacting policies that reduce white Americans' political power. It's moved from the fringes of the hard right to the mainstream of conservative media and some Republican politicians.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
9/16/2021
Politicians, not Migrants, are Fueling the Pandemic's Resurgence
by Randa Tawil
At the height of colonialism, European governments rejected calls for quarantine to keep global commerce humming, and blamed supposedly unsanitary local populations for the inevitable spread of cholera. Governors in some US states are repeating this mistake today.
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SOURCE: Dissent
8/25/2021
70 Years after the UN Refugee Convention, the US Needs to Commit to Helping Displaced People
by Linda K. Kerber
The UN Refugee Convention does not impose any real obligations on any nation to offer asylum. The United States must lead the way in recognition of the deeply interconnected world created in large part by American power.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
8/20/2021
Both the Right and Left Need to Remember Demography is Not Destiny
by Adam Serwer
The 2020 Census has fueled optimism on the left and panic on the right about American demographics. But past periods of ethnic change have shown the fluidity of racial categories defies expectations.
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
8/23/2021
America Once was Eager for Chinese Immigration. Mae Ngai's Book Explains What Happened
The first wave of the California Gold Rush was "a nettlesome experiment in multiracial democracy that had little precedent in the country's history," but resulted in the development of institutionalized anti-Asian nativism as a political force.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
8/22/2021
Nativism Has Thwarted American Refugee Resettlement Before
by E. Kyle Romero
Political hostility toward the Bolshevik revolution and anti-Asian racism were among the factors that prevented the resettlement of World War I refugees in the United States, leaving their care to Eurpoean nations wracked by war.
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8/29/2021
Bigler's Gambit: How the California Gold Fields Gave Rise to Global Anti-Chinese Politics
by Mae Ngai
The Chinese Question and Chinese exclusion policies that circumnavigated the Anglo-American world in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries grew in local soils, and shifted and evolved as it crossed the Pacific world and supported the consolidation of British and American power over global emigration and trade."
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
GOP Revives Old Tactic: Blame Outsiders for Disease
by Jonathan Zimmerman
"The coronavirus is spreading most rapidly in places with low vaccination rates, not high immigration."
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