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SOURCE: Nursing Clio
3/15/2023
"If they were White and Insured, Would they have Died?"
by Udodiri R. Okwandu
Texas's new maternal mortality report shows that historical patterns of medical racism are continuing, and the state plans to do little but blame Black women for the inadequate care they receive.
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SOURCE: Slate
3/14/2023
Texas's Abortion Ban Can Never be Made Humane
by Mary Ziegler
When abortion access depends on establishing that a pregnant woman deserves an exception to a ban, the law will inevitably prevent doctors from serving patients with problem pregnancies.
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SOURCE: Austin American-Statesman
3/11/2023
Texas Legislation Takes Aim at University DEI Programs
The legislature would prohibit the operation of DEI offices on public campuses in Texas and maintain a list of university staff who violate the law, with consequences for employment.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
2/24/2023
A Different Kind of Unfree Labor Haunts a Houston Suburb
by Ashanté Reese
Texas's convict labor system was a first step in reasserting white dominance over Black labor through criminal law. The discovery of remains of convicted laborers on the site of a former prison farm show the need to reckon with unfree labor after the end of slavery.
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SOURCE: Texas Monthly
2/16/2023
Those "Local" School Battles in Texas are Part of a Decades-Long Statewide Plan to Undermine Public Schools
Advocates of privatizing public schools have bankrolled and organized parents' groups around a range of values issues with the goal of undermining confidence in local schools. In Texas, it seems to be working to break down the longstanding opposition of rural families to voucher programs.
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SOURCE: La Voz
1/15/2023
The History of Mexican Americans in Austin
by Cynthia E. Orozco
A historian works to develop a chronicle of Mexican American community events in the city of Austin with a local community newspaper.
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SOURCE: Substack
10/27/2022
Can Americans Understand the Divisions in Latino Politics?
by Geraldo Cadava
Despite the lip service both parties pay to welcoming (and deserving) the growing Latino vote, do their non-Latino leaders actually understand the complexities of this large demographic category? Do they want to?
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SOURCE: NPR
10/5/2022
Marfa, TX School to Become National Historic Site Preserving Story of Segregated Mexican Americans
The segregation of Anglo and Mexican students in Texas was not always enforced by law, but local custom and prejudice was sufficient in many places.
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
10/3/2022
What Must Be Done with Native Remains in Texas's Big Bend Region?
Byron Schroeder ran into difficulty tracking down the story of a commerical artifact digging operation on private land. Past participants were reticent because, in addition to artifacts, some had removed human remains. The story highlights the divides between academic and amateur archaeologists and the ethics of digs.
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10/2/2022
What's Driving the Latest Texas History Wars?
by John Willingham
An organized and well-funded alliance of charter schools and conservative activists is leveraging the Critical Race Theory controversy in Texas to pursue the real prize: school education funding.
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SOURCE: KERA
9/26/2022
Historians Evaluate the "1836 Project" Pamphlet Texas Wants to Give to All Drivers License Applicants
Historians concur that while the task of condensing the state's history into a dozen pages is a difficult task, the choices made by the state commission aim at preserving patriotic myths favored by the right.
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SOURCE: Texas Tribune
9/19/2022
Texas Leading the Nation in Book Banning
Not suprisingly, books dealing with racism and LGBTQ themes are being targeted for removal from library and school shelves, even preventing them from being read voluntarily.
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SOURCE: Texas Tribune
9/19/2022
At its 50th Reunion, La Raza Unida Asks How to Pass the Torch
La Raza Unida grew out of civil rights mobilization in the 1960s and worked to mobilize the large, complex, and internally divided communities of ethnic Mexican Texans, focusing on education and voting rights, and struggling to bridge radical and moderate political outlooks.
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SOURCE: Texas Observer
9/8/2022
I was Fired for Asking My Students to Wear Masks
by Michael Phillips
Sometimes academic freedom is about the ability of professors to advocate on behalf of the campus community's health against administrators who prefer silence as a matter of political expediency.
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SOURCE: NPR
4/26/2022
After 4 Decades in the Classroom, a Teacher Keeps History Alive
"When we take out big chunks of history, that diminishment diminishes us. You know, my grandmother was a quilter. And she put scraps together into these beautiful patterns. And I feel that I'm doing that, but with history."
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SOURCE: Texas Monthly
8/25/2022
The Omissions of the "1836 Project" View of Texas History
by Leah LaGrone and Michael Phillips
The project, which will distribut a pamphlet to all people receiving a driver's license in Texas, is staffed by right-wing ideologues hand-picked by Governor Greg Abbott. Expect a whitewash of issues related to slavery and racism.
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SOURCE: Texas Tribune
8/17/2022
The Pre-Civil War Origins of Texas's Abortion Laws
Texas's pre-Roe abortion ban has been dated to 1925 when the state recodified its criminal code, but the original statute dates to 1857.
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SOURCE: Jewish Telegraphic Agency
8/16/2022
Texas District Removes Graphic Version of Diary of Anne Frank
“It’s disgusting. It’s devastating. It’s legitimate book banning, there’s no way around it,” Laney Hawes, a parent of four children in the Keller district, told JTA about the order. “I feel bad for the teachers and the librarians.”
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
8/16/2022
The Disturbing History of Sending Migrants to Other States
by Hidetaka Hirota
In the context of intense anti-Irish nativism, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts expelled and deported poor immigrants without due process.
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SOURCE: Texas Standard
7/22/2022
Texas State Prof. Launches Harry Styles History Course
Louis Dean Valencia realized during the pandemic that icebreaking conversations with students about pop music opened up many avenues for discussing historical subjects including the politics of celebrity.
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