Texas

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• SOURCE: Texas Tribune
  6/30/2022
  

  One Absurdity of Texas's Divisive Concepts Law? Call to Rename Slave Trade as "Involuntary Relocation"

  A working group proposed the change for second grade social studies to the Texas State Board of Education under the shadow of legal jeopardy educators and school systems face under a new law that makes it unclear how the subject of slavery can be taught.

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• SOURCE: Texas Tribune
  6/22/2022
  

  Before the Tragedy, Uvalde Was the Site of a Major School Walkout. Will That History Be Lost?

  In 1970, ethnic Mexican students at Uvalde High School staged a six-week school boycott to protest persistent segregation and pervasive disrespect from teachers and administrators. 

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• 6/19/2022
  

  "Oh, We Knowed What Was Goin’ On": The Myths (and Lies) of Juneteenth

  by Clyde W. Ford

  After the myths of Juneteenth are stripped away, the day symbolizes the incompleteness of the promise of emancipation. 

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• SOURCE: WNYC
  6/8/2022
  

  Monica Muñoz Martinez on the Border, Violence, and Uvalde

  Michelle Garcia, journalist, essayist, Soros Equality Fellow and Dobie Paisano writer-in-residence, and Monica Muñoz Martinez, associate professor of history at the University of Texas-Austin, talk about the border security apparatus at Uvalde, and the history of violence and discrimination at the South Texas and Mexican border.

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• SOURCE: KERA
  6/6/2022
  

  Collin College Prof Fired over Speech Lands at SMU

  Michael Phillips will join the Clements Center for Southwest Studies at SMU after his firing from Collin College over social media criticism of Confederate statues and other aspects of racism. 

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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: Texas Tribune
  5/17/2022
  

  Texas Librarians Face Harassment as they Navigate Book Bans

  While some librarians in the state have been fired for refusing to comply with bans, many others have or are contemplating quitting over political interference with their work and social media harassment. 

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• SOURCE: Fort Worth Star-Telegram
  4/21/2022
  

  TCU Faculty and Students Prepare to Grapple with the Past

  "TCU formed the Race and Reconciliation Initiative in August in 2020, after the murder of George Floyd, which prompted TCU and many other universities to research their history with slavery."

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• SOURCE: Commentary
  4/16/2022
  

  Dan Patrick's Illiberal Attack on Higher Ed

  by Jonathan Marks

  There are good conservative arguments for abolishing faculty tenure; Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick isn't advancing one of them as he seeks to punish political opponents for their ideas.

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• SOURCE: Texas Tribune
  4/18/2022
  

  Texas Governors Have Politicized "Border Security" for Decades. What Have They Accomplished?

  Texas governors since 9/11 have pledged billions to secure the state's border with Mexico, but a lack of accountability suggests that electoral and partisan concerns have been the key motive. 

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• SOURCE: Fort Worth Star-Telegram
  4/13/2022
  

  It Wasn't Long Ago that Easter in Fort Worth Celebrated the Lord and the Klan

  A look at the Easter week headlines from a century ago shows the casual respectability of the Klan among white Texas christians. 

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• SOURCE: Axios
  4/4/2022
  

  Cynthia Orozco Sheds Light on Latino Civil Rights Pioneer Alonso Perales

  The biography of Perales comes at a time when Texas conservatives are pushing to limit the teaching of histories of racial discrimination. 

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• SOURCE: Texas Monthly
  4/1/2022
  

  The Texas School District Considering Banning "Maus" Needs to Reconsider

  "Before reading Maus, if I had a sense of what Nazis were, it was as abstract villains, the bad guys Indiana Jones fought."

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• SOURCE: Texas Tribune
  3/23/2022
  

  Caught on Tape: North Texas School Superintendent Orders Removal of Transgender, LGBTQ Themed Books

  "[Superintendent Jeremy Glenn] noted that members of Granbury’s school board — his bosses — were also very conservative. And to any school employees who might have different political beliefs, Glenn said, 'You better hide it'."

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  3/11/2022
  

  Texas's Anti-Transgender Policies Erase the State's Indigenous Transgender History

  by Gregory D. Smithers

  The prominent role of what would now be called transgender individuals in indigenous societies in Texas was part of the justification Europeans claimed to colonize the land; students compelled to learn Texas history in school could learn a much more inclusive set of stories. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  3/11/2022
  

  Targeting the Marginalized for Political Gain is Nothing New in Texas Politics

  by Nancy Beck Young

  Minority groups have often had a perilous existence in Texas, but that hasn't stopped politicians from attacking them as dire threats to the state's moral fabric. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  3/4/2022
  

  Putin is Following the 19th Century US in Using Separatist Movements to Justify Empire

  by Elliott Young

  No American observers should use the term "unprecedented" to describe Putin's claim to support self-determination as a justification for invading another country. It's part of the toolkit of empire.

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  2/23/2022
  

  The Increasingly Authoritarian War on Tenure

  by Jennifer Ruth

  "Democratic societies build in protections for university faculty so that we are not at the whims of whichever party is currently in power. When Patrick threatens tenure, he threatens those protections," and threatens the partisan control of knowledge in society.

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• SOURCE: Substack
  2/24/2022
  

  We, The Abuser State

  by Jules Gill-Peterson

  Texas's announcement of a policy defining some support for transgender youth as "child abuse" echoes the abuses of colonial authorities on gendered minority groups. 

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• SOURCE: Texas Tribune
  2/18/2022
  

  Texas Lt. Gov. Links Tenure Abolition to Banning Critical Race Theory

  The call makes explicit that academic freedom is on shaky ground in Texas.