racism

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• SOURCE: Evanston Round Table
  6/10/2022
  

  Northwestern Prof and Evanston HS Teachers Engage Illinois Black History

  "High school teachers are experts in their field; specifically they are experts in creating grade-level, adaptable content," says Prof. Kate Masur of her collaboration with Evanston HS teachers Michael Pond, Yosra Yehia and Kamasi Hill.

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  6/9/2022
  

  The Unity that Follows Tragedy Shouldn't Obscure Buffalo's History of Racism

  by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

  The invented image of a "City of Good Neighbors" has been a rhetorical one-way street in Buffalo, with calls for unity gaining more traction than calls for justice or equality. 

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• SOURCE: Public Books
  6/15/2022
  

  America Runs on Xenophobia

  by Erika Lee

  Xenophobia's resilience and revival in America is happening because it helps manage the faults and contradictions of major social institutions including capitalism, democracy, and global leadership. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  6/15/2022
  

  The Right Celebrated Bernhard Goetz as the Kyle Rittenhouse of the 80s

  by Pia Beumer

  In the context of economic turmoil, urban crisis, and racial division, a broad swath of the American public made Goetz a heroic symbol of restored white masculinity after he shot four Black teens who asked him for money on the New York subway.

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• SOURCE: ProPublica
  6/16/2022
  

  White Conservative Parents Got an Educator Fired, then Chased Her to Her Next Job

  Cecelia Lewis was hired as a Georgia school district's first Diversity, Equity and Inclusion administrator. A national organization helped local parents get her fired. 

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• SOURCE: NPR
  6/11/2022
  

  Milbank Memorial Fund Apologizes for Role in Tuskegee Syphilis Study

  The Milbank Memorial Fund donated pittances to the families of Black men who died of untreated syphilis with a grotesque condition: families had to agree to intrusive autopsies to gather information about the effects of the disease.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  6/8/2022
  

  Reece Jones on How "Great Replacement" Idea Revived

  "Thanks to the great replacement theory, the people that once forcibly colonised much of the rest of the world can cast themselves as oppressed victims."

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• SOURCE: Philadelphia Inquirer
  6/8/2022
  

  Inventing Solitary Confinement

  Kali Nicole Gross, Ashley Rubin, Jen Manion and Paul Takagi offer insight into the historical irony of modern incarceration's roots in Philadelphia, the nominal cradle of American liberty. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  6/9/2022
  

  A Marker Recognizing Fannie Lou Hamer in Mississippi is a Step Toward Justice

  by Keisha N. Blain

  As conservatives restrict the teaching of the history of racism in America, the town of Winona, Mississippi has taken a necessary step to memorialize the state-sanctioned jailhouse beating of Fannie Lou Hamer and other activists in 1963. 

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  6/7/2022
  

  The Second Destruction of Tulsa's Black Community

  by Karlos K. Hill

  Photographer Donald Thompson has set out to capture a visual history of Tulsa's Greenwood district, an African American community decimated first by the 1921 race massacre and then by urban renewal in the 1970s. Historian Karlos Hill interviews him about his work. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/3/2022
  

  Harvard Holds Remains of 7,000 Native and Enslaved Persons

  by Gillian Brockell

  A university task force convened last year to investigate the provenance of human remains in Harvard's museums and collections condemned the leak of the report while defending their committee's work toward returning remains to appropriate tribal authorities and memorializing the deceased. 

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• SOURCE: CNN
  6/4/2022
  

  Authors of Color Disproportionately Targeted by Book Bans

  Angry parents yelling at school board meetings present a picture of these authors' work that they find unrecognizable. Read what several targeted authors say about their books. 

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• 6/5/2022
  

  The Dobbs Decision Punctures the Supreme Court's Sacred Mythology

  by Alan J. Singer

  The Supreme Court uses a myth of its own impartiality to justify a legacy of judicial review that is tainted by its service to slavery and Jim Crow. 

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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: Boston Globe
  6/1/2022
  

  Draft Report Says Harvard Holds Remains of 19 Possible Enslaved People and Thousands of Native Americans

  "A leaked draft report by a Harvard committee says the university has the remains of at least 19 people who were likely enslaved and nearly 7,000 Native Americans, according to the Harvard Crimson."

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  5/30/2022
  

  How the Southern Baptist Sex Abuse Revelations are Rooted in the Denomination's Racism

  by Audrey Clare Farley

  White evangelicals need to come to grips with the way that institutional racism gives rise to sexual abuse. 

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  5/19/2022
  

  Will Buffalo Change Anything?

  Historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and survivor/activist David Hogg discuss whether American politicians will ever confront the horrific combination of racism and guns. 

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• SOURCE: Wisconsin Public Radio
  5/24/2022
  

  Was Your Wisconsin Town a "Sundown Town"?

  Stephen Berrey discusses the way that violent segregation took place outside the South in the 1890s and early 1900s.

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• SOURCE: TeenVogue
  5/26/2022
  

  The Forgotten School Gun Massacre in Stockton, CA

  Patrick Purdy killed 5 children, all from Southeast Asian refugee families, and injured 30 others in a schoolyard gun attack in 1989, an incident that should be a reminder of the horrific combination of racism and guns in America. Gun violence scholar Pat Blanchfield explains how we've collectively forgotten.

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• SOURCE: Nashville Tennessean
  5/23/2022
  

  Teach Black History to Help Prevent Racist Violence

  by David Barber

  The state of Tennessee's efforts to restrict the teaching of African American history seek to prevent white students from developing a historical consciousness that would encourage them to reject white supremacy.