Pete Buttigieg

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• SOURCE: The Baffler
  4/25/2022
  

  Robert Moses is Dead. Making Him a Bogeyman Keeps Planners from Understanding Racism

  By condemning the big projects Moses favored, planners excuse their own involvement in perpetuating the idea that some neighborhoods and some residents are more valuable than others. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  11/10/2021
  

  Fact Check: History of Robert Moses's Parkways Shows Racist Intent of Bridge Height is Not Certain

  Pete Buttigieg's remarks racism in urban planning were informed by Robert Caro's biography of Robert Moses. Some historians say that while Moses's projects harmed minority communities and his prejudices well-known, the specific anedcote about using parkway bridges to keep buses full of Black New Yorkers from Long Island beaches may be apocryphal.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  11/8/2021
  

  Sometimes it Comes in Handy to Understand Historical Examples of Systemic Racism

  by Philip Bump

  Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg's references to racism in design and planning drew mockery from Republicans but reflect the history of political choices that shaped America's transportation networks. 

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• SOURCE: Public Books
  11/11/2020
  

  America Comes Out

  A new book evaluates the origins and political evolution of "coming out" in gay America.

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• SOURCE: The Baffler
  3/20/2020
  

  Assimilationists of a Feather

  by Elliot Friar and Travis LaCouter

  If the history of gay liberation has taught us anything, it’s that assimilationism is one hell of a drug.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  3/16/2020
  

  Pete Buttigieg’s Coded Language Shows the Limits and Promise of LGBTQ Progress

  by Nathaniel Frank

  Research shows that it’s not just political candidates who continue to feel they have to hide their true selves to reach their full potential, as even the openly gay presidential candidate apparently did.

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• SOURCE: Salon
  2/22/20
  

  What Pete Buttigieg gets wrong about Bernie Sanders and the Democratic Party

  by Jim Sleeper

  Bernie Sanders isn't going to "burn the party down" — Democrats did that to themselves years ago.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/17/20
  

  Pete Buttigieg’s race problem

  by Tyler D. Parry

  He doesn’t truly understand the problems plaguing black America and their racist roots.

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• SOURCE: Commonwealth Magazine
  1/28/20
  

  Historian James T. Kloppenberg Writes Article About Teaching Pete Buttigieg

  "Reading Buttigieg: A former teacher’s perspective"

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/12/20
  

  Is Pete Buttigieg Jimmy Carter 2.0?

  by J. Brooks Flippen

  To win the White House and be a successful president, he must learn from an eerily similar candidate.

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• SOURCE: Slate
  11/25/19
  

  Queer Like Pete

  by Jim Downs

  Buttigieg is getting slammed for being a type of gay man America doesn’t understand.

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• SOURCE: NBC News
  6/22/19
  

  Would Buttigieg be the first gay president? Maybe not.

  “I would imagine we’ve probably had excellent presidents who were gay, we just didn’t know which ones,” Pete Buttigieg told Axios. Historians weigh in.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  4/17/19
  

  Why Pete Buttigieg may be reviving progressive ideals of the Social Gospel Movement

  by David Mislin

  A century ago views such as Buttigieg’s flourished in the Midwest.

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• SOURCE: CNN
  4/14/19
  

  What's behind the surging interest in Pete Buttigieg

  by Julian Zelizer

  In retrospect, his unexpected viability makes a lot of sense.