violence

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• SOURCE: Texas Monthly
  9/30/2021
  

  Monica Muñoz Martinez Is Setting the Record Straight on Texas’s History of Border Violence

  "As a historian, when I’m researching these events of racist violence that have not been documented, I don’t know what is going to happen or what the outcome will be. It is really hard to read newspaper articles that celebrate violence."

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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  9/23/2021
  

  A Parable of All-American Violence

  by Kelly Denton-Borhaug

  The United States cannot truly end the Afghan war without reckoning with the effects of normalizing violence as a means of politics. 

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• SOURCE: History.com
  9/14/2021
  

  The 1906 Atlanta Race Massacre: How Fearmongering Led to Violence

  The 1906 Atlanta Race Riots, a series of mob attacks on Black residents and their homes and businesses, originated in fears of black political and economic power that were stoked by the local press with fabricated, sensational stories of Black criminality. 

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• SOURCE: Houma Today
  9/14/2021
  

  Did the FBI Fail to Investigate Civil Rights Killing Cold Cases?

  The Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act of 2008 authorizes the FBI to prosecute surviing suspects in acts of racist terrorism. It's not clear that they have exercised this power vigilantly. 

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• SOURCE: Tampa Bay Times
  9/1/2021
  

  The Last House in Historic Rosewood, Florida May Become a Museum

  “It’s a place that needs to be remembered,” said Lizzie Jenkins, 82, whose aunt escaped the massacre. “That house is part of who I am.”

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  8/30/2021
  

  The 100th Anniversary of the Biggest Uprising Since the Civil War

  by Samuel Fleischman

  West Virginia coal country needs to recover the tradition of solidarity that developed during the state's deadly mine wars to move to a fair post-coal future. 

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• 8/8/2021
  

  Drug Prohibition and the Political Roots of Cartel Violence in Mexico

  by Benjamin T. Smith

  Violence is not so much in the DNA of the drug trade as the DNA of drug prohibition. And until both American and Mexican police forces stop treating it like a war, the violence won’t stop.

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• SOURCE: Public Books
  8/3/2021
  

  The Migration Crisis is a Gendered Violence Crisis

  by Laura Briggs and María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo

  Central American women are frequently pushed to migrate by the threat of sexual violence. American policy inflicts further gendered harm through family separation and border militarization. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  7/29/2021
  

  Addressing Gun Violence Means Looking Beyond Policing

  by Menika Dirkson

  Between 1969 and 1976, Philadelphia saw success with a program to connect youth to social services, education and work opportunity, but turned toward militarized policing in the 1970s. This history should guide urban leaders away from the "tough on crime" approach.

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• SOURCE: The Metropole
  6/14/2021
  

  Hyper-Segregation, Inequality, And Murder Rates — A Review Of “The Ecology Of Homicide”

  by Menika Dirkson

  The late historian Eric Schneider uses criminal court records to argue that Philadelphia's violent crime rate is an ecological phenomenon, in which public policy decisions and private actions created conditions for spikes in violence. 

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• SOURCE: Eurozine
  6/3/2021
  

  The Unbearable Easiness of Killing

  by Arie M. Dubnov

  "As a colleague justly commented, it is only helpful to call a situation ‘complicated’ if one is committed to unfolding the package, willing to examine its contents and prepared to be surprised by what one finds hidden inside."

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  6/2/2021
  

  On Public Art, Historical Memory, and Racial Violence

  by Melanie Chambliss

  "Anniversaries are useful for focusing the public’s attention on historically significant events, including the Tulsa Race Massacre, but we must ask ourselves what happens next?"

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  5/28/2021
  

  Confronting the Myth of Objectivity: Karlos Hill Writes on the Tulsa Massacre

  by David M. Perry

  Karlos Hill has researched the Tulsa race massacre and developed an institute to train teachers to examine it in their classrooms. This experience has led him to question whether objectivity can be a core principle of historiography. 

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• SOURCE: National Geographic
  5/10/2021
  

  The Bloody History of Anti-Asian Violence in the West

  by Kevin Waite

  An 1871 massacre of Chinese residents in Los Angeles was the pinnacle of anti-Asian violence in the late 19th century west. 

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• 4/25/2021
  

  “Not Your Fetish”: Protesting Racism and Misogyny Against Asian American Women

  by Hao Zou

  The Atlanta massage parlor killings reflect a century and a half of history in which racist and misogynistic stereotypes of Asian women have been normalized in American culture. Protests are demanding change.

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• SOURCE: Heather Cox Richardson
  4/20/2021
  

  Caught in a Plague of Gun Violence (Letters from an American, April 19, 2021)

  by Heather Cox Richardson

  What explains the different reaction to two Valentine's Day massacres, in 1929 and 2018? Heather Cox Richardson examines the connections between a culture of individualism, desegregation, and guns. 

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  4/5/2021
  

  Without Asian American Studies, We Can’t Understand American Racism

  by Min Hyoung Song

  The establishment of Asian American Studies and ethnic studies programs has been essential to putting Asian American scholars (and scholars of Asian Americans) in position to engage the mass media around events like the Atlanta shootings. As those programs are under fire, it's time to recognize their value. 

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• 4/4/2021
  

  What Comes Next?

  by Stephanie Hinnershitz

  In 1979, Asian American leaders testified to Congress about problems of discrimination, opportunity and hostility facing their communities. The official response largely enshrined a "model minority" myth that obscured ongoing problems behind a celebratory narrative of inclusion. Waves of anti-Asian violence in the 1980s belied that story, and warn us not to minimize the climate of hostility Asian Americans face today.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  3/27/2021
  

  How Vincent Chin's Death Gave Others A Voice

  Paula Yoo's book for young adults describes the beating death of Vincent Chin in 1982 and the way his death catalyzed an Asian-American movement. 

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• SOURCE: Heather Cox Richardson
  3/23/2021
  

  Letters From an American: March 23, 2021

  by Heather Cox Richardson

  Beginning in the 1970s, the National Rifle Assocaition evolved into a political lobbying organization increasingly enmeshed with the conservative movement. Two recent mass shootings are a tribute to the organization's success. Congratulations.