Texas

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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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• SOURCE: Texas Observer
  7/21/2022
  

  The John Birch Society's North Texas Renaissance

  The ideas and conspiratorial mindset central to Bircherism have become part of mainstream conservatism, with booming popularity in the Dallas-Fort Worth suburbs. Historian Edward H. Miller explains the group's ideas have been more tenacious than the organization itself. 

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• SOURCE: Texas Tribune
  7/24/2022
  

  After Decades of Organizing, Texas Gay Republicans Face Failure

  The hard right turn of state politics has caused many gay Republicans in Texas to scale back their goals for acceptance in the party. 

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• SOURCE: Texas Tribune
  6/30/2022
  

  One Absurdity of Texas's Divisive Concepts Law? Call to Rename Slave Trade as "Involuntary Relocation"

  A working group proposed the change for second grade social studies to the Texas State Board of Education under the shadow of legal jeopardy educators and school systems face under a new law that makes it unclear how the subject of slavery can be taught.

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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.