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SOURCE: Texas Tribune
6/22/2022
Before the Tragedy, Uvalde Was the Site of a Major School Walkout. Will That History Be Lost?
In 1970, ethnic Mexican students at Uvalde High School staged a six-week school boycott to protest persistent segregation and pervasive disrespect from teachers and administrators.
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6/19/2022
"Oh, We Knowed What Was Goin’ On": The Myths (and Lies) of Juneteenth
by Clyde W. Ford
After the myths of Juneteenth are stripped away, the day symbolizes the incompleteness of the promise of emancipation.
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SOURCE: WNYC
6/8/2022
Monica Muñoz Martinez on the Border, Violence, and Uvalde
Michelle Garcia, journalist, essayist, Soros Equality Fellow and Dobie Paisano writer-in-residence, and Monica Muñoz Martinez, associate professor of history at the University of Texas-Austin, talk about the border security apparatus at Uvalde, and the history of violence and discrimination at the South Texas and Mexican border.
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SOURCE: KERA
6/6/2022
Collin College Prof Fired over Speech Lands at SMU
Michael Phillips will join the Clements Center for Southwest Studies at SMU after his firing from Collin College over social media criticism of Confederate statues and other aspects of racism.
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SOURCE: The Conversation
5/30/2022
In one Family's Photo Album: A Wedding, An Anniversary, and a Lynching in Texas
by Jeffrey J. Littlejohn
The author set out to identify the victim of a lynching pictured in a family photoalbum. This project – pointing out the normalcy and pervasiveness of violence as a tool of white supremacy – could be illegal for a K-12 teacher in Texas today.
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SOURCE: Texas Tribune
5/17/2022
Texas Librarians Face Harassment as they Navigate Book Bans
While some librarians in the state have been fired for refusing to comply with bans, many others have or are contemplating quitting over political interference with their work and social media harassment.
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SOURCE: Fort Worth Star-Telegram
4/21/2022
TCU Faculty and Students Prepare to Grapple with the Past
"TCU formed the Race and Reconciliation Initiative in August in 2020, after the murder of George Floyd, which prompted TCU and many other universities to research their history with slavery."
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SOURCE: Commentary
4/16/2022
Dan Patrick's Illiberal Attack on Higher Ed
by Jonathan Marks
There are good conservative arguments for abolishing faculty tenure; Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick isn't advancing one of them as he seeks to punish political opponents for their ideas.
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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: Fort Worth Star-Telegram
4/13/2022
It Wasn't Long Ago that Easter in Fort Worth Celebrated the Lord and the Klan
A look at the Easter week headlines from a century ago shows the casual respectability of the Klan among white Texas christians.
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SOURCE: Axios
4/4/2022
Cynthia Orozco Sheds Light on Latino Civil Rights Pioneer Alonso Perales
The biography of Perales comes at a time when Texas conservatives are pushing to limit the teaching of histories of racial discrimination.
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SOURCE: Texas Monthly
4/1/2022
The Texas School District Considering Banning "Maus" Needs to Reconsider
"Before reading Maus, if I had a sense of what Nazis were, it was as abstract villains, the bad guys Indiana Jones fought."
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SOURCE: Texas Tribune
3/23/2022
Caught on Tape: North Texas School Superintendent Orders Removal of Transgender, LGBTQ Themed Books
"[Superintendent Jeremy Glenn] noted that members of Granbury’s school board — his bosses — were also very conservative. And to any school employees who might have different political beliefs, Glenn said, 'You better hide it'."
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
3/11/2022
Texas's Anti-Transgender Policies Erase the State's Indigenous Transgender History
by Gregory D. Smithers
The prominent role of what would now be called transgender individuals in indigenous societies in Texas was part of the justification Europeans claimed to colonize the land; students compelled to learn Texas history in school could learn a much more inclusive set of stories.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
3/11/2022
Targeting the Marginalized for Political Gain is Nothing New in Texas Politics
by Nancy Beck Young
Minority groups have often had a perilous existence in Texas, but that hasn't stopped politicians from attacking them as dire threats to the state's moral fabric.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
3/4/2022
Putin is Following the 19th Century US in Using Separatist Movements to Justify Empire
by Elliott Young
No American observers should use the term "unprecedented" to describe Putin's claim to support self-determination as a justification for invading another country. It's part of the toolkit of empire.
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SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
2/23/2022
The Increasingly Authoritarian War on Tenure
by Jennifer Ruth
"Democratic societies build in protections for university faculty so that we are not at the whims of whichever party is currently in power. When Patrick threatens tenure, he threatens those protections," and threatens the partisan control of knowledge in society.
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SOURCE: Substack
2/24/2022
We, The Abuser State
by Jules Gill-Peterson
Texas's announcement of a policy defining some support for transgender youth as "child abuse" echoes the abuses of colonial authorities on gendered minority groups.
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SOURCE: Texas Tribune
2/18/2022
Texas Lt. Gov. Links Tenure Abolition to Banning Critical Race Theory
The call makes explicit that academic freedom is on shaky ground in Texas.
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SOURCE: The New Republic
2/3/2022
For Trump and Trumpists, the Law is Always White
by Melissa Gira Grant
In singling out the Black elected officials who thwarted his bid to steal the election and are investigating his political and business affairs, Trump evoked the Reconstruction-era rhetoric of white southerns under attack, which, as Eric Foner wrote, justified a massive wave of racist political violence.
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