White Supremacy

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  8/3/2020
  

  How White Supremacy Infected Christianity and the Republican Party

  Columnist Jennifer Rubin discusses the findings of Robert P. Jones of the Public Religion Research Institute, presented in his new book, that elements of evangelical theology are strongly supportive of hierarchy and inequality. 

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• SOURCE: The Abusable Past
  7/28/2020
  

  J.K. Rowling and the White Supremacist History of “Biological Sex”

  by Kevin Henderson

  Undeniably, the present coherence of “biological sex” is an effect of 19th century scientific racism and discourses of white supremacy.

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• SOURCE: CNN
  7/26/2020
  

  Why Portland? The City's History of Protest Takes an Exceptional Turn

  The "Portlandia" image -- of 1990s slackers driven by liberal ingenuity -- isn't entirely true to the city's history, says former professor Randy Blazak.

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• SOURCE: New York Daily News
  7/19/2020
  

  Petition Calls for Selma Bridge To Be Named After John Lewis

  Advocates for the name change include filmmaker Ava DuVernay and South Carolina Rep. Jim Clyburn.

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• SOURCE: CBS News
  7/12/2020
  

  The History and Future of Confederate Monuments

  As debate over the takedown of Confederate monuments continues, historian Julian Hayter examines why and when the statues went up in the first place.

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• SOURCE: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
  7/11/2020
  

  As Monuments Tumble, Are We ‘Erasing’ History? Historians Say No

  ‘Monuments do a very poor job in talking about history,’ says history professor Hillary Green.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  7/9/2020
  

  Campaign Urges NASA to Rename the John C. Stennis Space Center

  The center, in Mississippi, is named for a former senator who opposed civil rights legislation and the Supreme Court ruling that desegregated the nation’s public schools.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  7/1/2020
  

  White Supremacist Ideas Have Historical Roots In U.S. Christianity

  At an earlier point in American history, some Christian theologians went so far as to argue that the enslavement of human beings was justifiable from a biblical point of view.

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• SOURCE: Hattiesburg American
  7/2/2020
  

  Confederate Monument in Mississippi City Pays Tribute to Past that Never Was

  by William Sturkey

  That monument does not deserve its place of reverence. It never did. And it’s never too late to tell the truth.

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• SOURCE: TIME
  7/1/2020
  

  The 1898 Wilmington Massacre Is an Essential Lesson in How State Violence Has Targeted Black Americans

  by David Zucchino

  The coup was the natural outgrowth of North Carolina’s – and America’s – long history of relying on white police to perpetuate white supremacy amid fears of Black uprisings.

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• SOURCE: WBUR
  7/1/2020
  

  Mount Rushmore Historian: Monument 'Is Like A Rorschach, It Says Different Things To Different People'

  In light of Trump's plans to hold a July 4th celebration at Mount Rushmore on Friday, historian John Taliaferro discusses the monument's complex legacy.

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  6/30/2020
  

  The Confederates Loved America, and They’re Still Defining What Patriotism Means

  by Richard Kreitner

  For most of U.S. history, patriotism and white supremacy, the values supposedly embodied by the two flags, have hardly been at odds. Rather, they have been mutually constitutive and disturbingly aligned.

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• SOURCE: St. Louis American
  6/27/2020
  

  Catholics, Alt Right Clash With Protesters over Louis IX Statue

  One group demanded that its anchoring sculpture, a statue of King Louis IX, come down as a token of reconciliation against the generations of hate they feel the statue represents. A collective of other groups, including individuals who said they belonged to The Catholic Church and white supremacists, stood in defense of the statue of the city’s namesake.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/26/2020
  

  Racist Violence in Wilmington’s Past Echoes in Police Officer Recordings Today

  by Crystal R. Sanders

  Wilmington, North Carolina police officers who spoke eagerly about the chance to kill black protesters evoke the history of a violent white supremacist coup against the city's biracial government during Reconstruction.

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• SOURCE: Vox
  6/24/2020
  

  Monument Avenue is Richmond’s Racist Row. Will Tearing it Down Redeem a City?

  Historians Kevin Levin, Karen Cox, Ashleigh Lawrence-Sanders, and Michael Dickinson weigh-in on the history behind the Virginia street with five Confederate monuments.

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• SOURCE: Slate
  6/17/2020
  

  David Duke’s Twisted Take on the Civil Rights Movement

  He wore a suit, went on talk shows, and tried to mimic the push for black civil rights.

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• SOURCE: Greenville (SC) News
  6/12/2020
  

  Clemson Removes John C. Calhoun's Name from Honors College, Asks to Rename Tillman Hall

  Calhoun was a slave owner and secessionist whose plantation became Clemson University; Tillman was a governor and white supremacist whose name adorns Clemson's most iconic building.

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• SOURCE: National Geographic
  6/3/2020
  

  ‘It Was a Modern-Day Lynching’: Violent Deaths Reflect a Brutal American Legacy

  As black people continue to die at the hands of police and vigilantes, the nation faces its long history of racial violence.

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• SOURCE: CNN
  6/1/2020
  

  Confederate Monuments Haunt American Democracy

  by Karen L. Cox

  Confederate monuments, most put in place as white supremacy regained control of the South, testify to continued injustice.

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  5/12/2020
  

  ‘Steeped in the Blood of Racism’

  "[Jackson State] reflects so many themes in the history of state-sanctioned violence against African Americans."