racism

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  5/30/2023
  

  Understanding Latino White Supremacy

  by Geraldo Cadava

  "In fact, Latino white supremacy isn’t an oxymoron, and carrying out a premeditated mass shooting in the United States is one of the more American things a Latino could do."

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  5/31/2023
  

  Commemoration of the Tulsa Massacre Has Put Symbolism Over Justice for the Victims

  by Victor Luckerson

  "The neighborhood’s historical fame has become a kind of albatross slung over Black Tulsans’ necks, as efforts at building concrete pathways toward justice are buried under hollow symbolism."

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• SOURCE: Slate
  6/1/2023
  

  New Evidence: Rehnquist Pretty Much OK with Plessy v. Ferguson

  by Richard Hasen and Dahlia Lithwick

  A 1952 memo that Rehnquist wrote defending "separate but equal" was raised during his Supreme Court confirmation hearings and dismissed as work-for-hire. It is now clear that he supported the narrow interpretation of the 14th Amendment that the current court majority hopes to use to undermine civil rights. 

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• SOURCE: Bloomberg CityLab
  5/30/2023
  

  The Tulsa Race Massacre was an Attack on Black People; Rebuilding Policies were an Attack on Black Wealth

  by Brentin Mock

  Victor Luckerson looks to the aftermath of the deadly attacks on the Greenwood district to argue that Tulsa's white leadership, in combination with federal highway and urban renewal programs, thwarted the efforts of Black Tulsans who were determined to rebuild. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/25/2023
  

  The Biden Administration Wants to Undo the Damage of Urban Highways. It Won't be Simple

  In cities across the nation, highway projects blighted working class communities, especially nonwhite ones. Is it possible for new policies to heal that damage? 

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• SOURCE: Truthout
  5/18/2023
  

  George Yancy and Joe Feagin on How to Fight Back Against Book Bans

  The sociologist, whose books on racism have been banned, argues "U.S. book banning has been widespread and routinely targeted books with diverse ideas and perspectives for centuries now, especially those challenging white conservative sociopolitical ideas, norms and values."

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• SOURCE: Labor and Working Class History Association
  5/12/2023
  

  Big Win for Victims of Restrictive Covenants

  by James Gregory

  Restrictive covenants and other housing policies created a housing market defined by racial segregation and locked generations of Black Americans out of wealth-building. Now courts frown on race-aware remedies for past discrimination. Has the state of Washington figured out a way around that to deliver reparations? 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/12/2023
  

  Texas Shooting Highlights Long History of Anti-Black Violence in Latino Communities

  by Cecilia Márquez

  History shows that there have long been strains of anti-black racism in Latino communities, and that the categories "white" and "latino" are not mutually exclusive. Understanding today's far right requires attention to those details. 

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• SOURCE: CNN
  5/15/2023
  

  I'm Headed to Florida to Teach-In Against DeSantis's Education Policies

  by Kellie Carter Jackson

  This May 17 saw a 24-hour teach-in by historians in St. Petersburg, Florida, to protest the restrictions on curriculum, books and ideas pushed by Governor Ron DeSantis and his allies. As a historian of abolition, the author stresses that denying people the pen may influence them to pick up the sword. 

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• SOURCE: The Baffler
  5/17/2023
  

  To Understand America's Failure on Housing Desegregation, Look at the Capital City

  by Kaila Philo

  With federal support, the private housing market was built around racial segregation. To understand how federal fair housing law and policy adopted since the 1960s failed to undermine it, it's not necessary to venture too far from Capitol Hill. 

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• SOURCE: Daily Beast
  5/17/2023
  

  Florida Just Banned Everything I Teach

  by William Horne

  Black historians during the Jim Crow era observed that the history taught in schools justified slavery, segregation, and lynching. A professor thinks that's where Ron DeSantis's vision of history is headed. Some politicians may think curriculum is a winning issue, but students and society will lose. 

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• SOURCE: Arizona Public Media
  5/14/2023
  

  Anita Yellowhair, Survivor of Arizona Boarding School, Shares Story after 60 Years

  Anita Yellowhair was taken from the Navajo reservation in Arizona to the Intermountain Indian School, the largest of the boarding schools in the United States, intended to separate children from indigenous ways of life. 

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• SOURCE: Woodrow Wilson Center and National History Center
  5/16/2023
  

  Chad Williams on W.E.B. DuBois and the First World War

  Michelle Moyd and David W. Blight comment on Chad Williams's discussion of DuBois's unfinished manuscript about the deep questions of race, democracy, and world affairs raised by the first World War. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  5/10/2023
  

  Washington State Law to Offer Low-Interest Home Loans to Redress Decades of Discriminatory Housing

  by James Gregory

  Specific practices by private lenders and public authorities have created and perpetuated disparities in homeownership and wealth through real estate. Guided by researchers, Washington State is attempting to compensate for that harm.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/10/2023
  

  Who's Afraid of a Black Cleopatra?

  by Gwen Nally and Mary Hamil Gilbert

  The controversy over the portrayal of Cleopatra by the Black British actress Adele James highlights the difficulty of reading modern ideas of race and identity back onto the past. But more interesting questions arise around why people in the present seek commonality with past figures. 

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  5/10/2032
  

  A Conversation with the Editors of a Collection of DuBois's Internationalist Thought

  by Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins

  Adom Getachew and Jennifer Pitts strive to demonstrate that DuBois's influential writings on African American life and American racism are inseparable from his global critiques of racism and imperialism, and his insistence on connecting racism with labor exploitation. 

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  5/8/2023
  

  Joe Louis was the World's Most Popular Athlete; Racist Businessmen Refused to Let Him Endorse Fords

  by Silke-Maria Weineck

  Market research documents related to the Ford Motor Company's refusal to grant retired champ Joe Louis a dealership franchise reveal a combination of middle-class prejudice and the willingness of the business world to accommodate Jim Crow. 

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• SOURCE: History Workshop
  5/11/2023
  

  Ayahs, Amahs and Empire: The History of Domestic Care Work under Colonialism

  by Julia Laite

  The history of domestic and child care work has become increasingly robust, but museums and public exhibitions have struggled to find ways to represent the work and experiences of women, many from south Asia, who traveled with white colonial families to perform this labor, putting marginalized people in charge of the empire's children. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/6/2023
  

  Pushed to Soften Discussion of Racism, Author Pulls out of Scholastic Deal

  Maggie Tokuda-Hall wrote the story of her grandparents meeting in a WWII-era internment camp, but it wasn't a commercial success. When Scholastic offered to license the work for classrooms, they asked for the unacceptable: downplaying the severity of anti-Japanese racism. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  4/26/2023
  

  Why a Book About Two Bunnies Marrying Was Banned in 1959

  Illustrator and author Garth Williams feigned incredulity that his tale of a white and black rabbit's romance ran afoul of Jim Crow sensibilities, but it's hard to see how else it was likely to be perceived, says Sharon Patricia Holland of the University of North Carolina.