racism

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/24/2022
  

  The Toxic Goal Behind GOP Laws Restricting Teaching about Racism

  “We shouldn't shy away from this more complicated, more accurate picture,” historian Kevin Kruse told me. “Democracy is an ongoing project, and we should all be wrestling with whether our actions live up to our ideals.”

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• SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
  1/17/2022
  

  MLK was CRT Before there was a Name For It (Ask One of the Scholars Who Founded the Field)

  by Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw

  A founder of the Critical Race Theory movement argues the movement, like Dr. King, insists that "the promise of liberation extends beyond the elimination of formal segregation and individual-level prejudice."

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• SOURCE: AL.com
  1/16/2022
  

  Ambushed in Eufaula: Alabama's Forgotten Racist Massacre

  In 1874 a group of Black Republicans who came to the town of Eufaula to vote were ambushed by white mobs, part of the Democratic overthrow of Reconstruction and a step toward reestablishing white supremacy in the state.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/14/2022
  

  Fighting Racial Bias with an Unlikely Weapon: Footnotes

  Slavery lives on in the law in the form of precedent. A new legal history movement seeks to highlight cases where disputes involved enslaved people and reconsider whether they constitute a fair basis for legal decisions today. 

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• SOURCE: Clio and the Contemporary
  1/12/2022
  

  Teaching (amid a) White Backlash

  by William Horne

  What can we learn from the work of creating and teaching a course on white backlash as a historical force as another one is unfolding? 

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  1/8/2022
  

  A Racist 1890 Law Still Blocks Black Americans from Voting

  Fewer than 200 Mississippians in the last 25 years have successfully petitioned for the restoration of their voting rights after felony convictions.

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• SOURCE: Clio and the Contemporary
  1/7/2022
  

  White Backlash and the American State – Syllabus

  by William Horne

  A syllabus for a course addressing the relationship of extralegal violence and institutional defenses of white supremacy in American history. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/7/2022
  

  Nine Decades Later, Critics of DuBois's "Black Reconstruction" Rehash Old Claims

  by Martha S. Jones

  For a new wave of critics, it's 1935 all over again, proving the ongoing vitality of DuBois's pioneering work. 

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  1/4/2022
  

  Private Capital Strangled Our Cities (Review of Destin Jenkins)

  by Samuel Zipp

  Destin Jenkins's new book makes a case that metropolitan segregation and racial inequality trace back to cities' dependence on the bond market. 

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• SOURCE: Protean
  12/17/2021
  

  Dead Man Running (Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Jim Crow Blues Again)

  by Ryan Zickgraf

  Mobile's current municipal elections combined the bizarre with the bureaucratic and institutional politics of racism. 

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• SOURCE: WORT
  12/20/2021
  

  Heather Ann Thompson on Mass Incarceration

  Karma Chávez guest hosts a wide-ranging conversation with historian Heather Ann Thompson about policing, mass incarceration, and why overhauling the criminal justice system is the civil rights issue of our time.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  12/18/2021
  

  Ida B. Wells Became the Last Hope for 12 Men Convicted of False Charges During Elaine, Ark. Massacre

  "Did Wells, an unflinching woman who had traveled the country to investigate the ruthless barbarity of white mobs in other lynchings and massacres, have that much power to save these Black men on death row in Arkansas?"

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• SOURCE: WBUR
  12/16/2021
  

  bell hooks, feminist and cultural critic, dead at 69

  Host Lisa Mullins speaks with Min Jin Lee, award-winning author and former student of hooks, about the legacy hooks leaves behind.

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• SOURCE: CNN
  12/16/2021
  

  What 2021 Taught Us About Racial Justice Struggles

  An interdisciplinary group of scholars including Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Angie Maxwell, and Andra Gillespie discuss the advances, setbacks and new battles in the struggle for justice in 2021. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  12/15/2021
  

  He Was Convicted of Raping Alice Sebold. Then the Case Unraveled.

  The recent exoneration of Anthony Broadwater calls for revisiting the context of writer Alice Sebold's sexual assault, including the state of urban America, the climate of racism and the politics of crime in the early 1980s. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  12/9/2021
  

  White Allies of Racial Justice Movements Have Long Been Targets

  by David A. Love

  "White supremacists have long singled out White allies of civil rights and racial justice movements — and the state has failed to defend them when they’ve sided with Black activists."

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• SOURCE: Brookings
  12/8/2021
  

  Brookings: What are White Americans' Attitudes Toward Reparations?

  "Recent polling data documents Americans’ general opposition to reparations in the form of financial payments to Black Americans as compensation for slavery."

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• SOURCE: Public Books
  12/13/2021
  

  Public Thinker: Destin Jenkins on Breaking Bonds

  by Hannah Appel

  "As your work so powerfully shows, the municipal bond market structures racial privilege, entrenches spatial neglect, and distributes wealth and power. American cities are dependent on financiers, rating agencies, and bond markets for nearly everything."

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• SOURCE: The Baffler
  12/6/2021
  

  Passing for Racial Democracy

  by Stephanie Reist

  "Color and race are not always synonymous in the Brazilian context. Features like hair texture, education, place of origin and address, and social class all factor into how people conceive of color, resulting in what researcher Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman calls a traitocracy that is more complex than a pigmentocracy or simple colorism."

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• SOURCE: New Statesman
  12/8/2021
  

  Historians are Soft Targets in the Culture War. They Need to Fight Back

  by David Olusoga

  "Historians should repeatedly point out that the 'rewriting of history' is not some act of professional misconduct but literally the job of professional historians."