White Supremacy

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  5/10/19
  

  The Problem With Ancestory.com

  by Adam H. Domby

  The search engine functions to hide both slave ownership and enslaved people from the eyes of contemporary genealogists.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  5/6/19
  

  Brazil’s long, strange love affair with the Confederacy ignites racial tension

  by Jordan Brasher

  How did an American debate about racism make its way to Brazil? 

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  5/5/19
  

  Medieval Scholars Joust With White Nationalists. And One Another.

  Since the 2016 presidential election, scholars have hotly debated the best way to counter the “weaponization” of the Middle Ages by a rising tide of far-right extremists.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/29/19
  

  The Poway shooter used an age old terrorist tactic. The media fell for it.

  by Ibrahim Al-Marashi

  The history behind terrorists’ favorite tactic and how we can fight it.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/30/19
  

  A brief history of the enduring phony science that perpetuates white supremacy

  Feauturing the reserach of historian Ibram X. Kendi. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/24/19
  

  White supremacists dragged James Byrd to his death in 1998. One of them was just executed.

  Some community members still talk about the negative impression left by the horrific crime and legal aftermath.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/5/19
  

  Stony the Road: From black triumph to racial hysteria to the ‘new Negro’

  by Howell Raines

  An illuminating ook review of Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s  “Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow.”

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• SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  3/24/19
  

  The New Zealand Shooting and the eternal fear of “race suicide”

  by Jonathon Zimmerman

  Put simply, the fear of being flooded by foreign hordes is baked into our national DNA. And it all starts with the question of fertility.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/22/19
  

  The warped history that fuels right-wing terrorism

  Brenton Tarrant, the white supremacist suspected of killing at least 50 people last week in two New Zealand mosques, saw his murderous rampage as part of a morbid historical fantasy.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/16/19
  

  The accused New Zealand shooter and an all-white Europe that never existed

  Brenton Tarrant covered his arsenal with symbols and names that medieval historians say are being misused by white supremacists.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  2/27/19
  

  White Supremacism in the U.S. Military, Explained

  For much of the 20th century, the Ku Klux Klan actively recruited members in the armed forces without hindrance. 

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  2/26/19
  

  Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers's "They Were Her Property" Praised in New York Times

  Her New Book Speaks Plainly About the Large Role White Women Played in Perpetuating Slavery.

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• SOURCE: New Yorker
  2/22/19
  

  Revisiting The American Nazi Supporters of "A Night at the Garden"

  by Margaret Talbot

  One advantage to living through Trumpism is that it has compelled a reckoning with aspects of our country’s past that, for a long time, many Americans preferred not to acknowledge.

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• SOURCE: Slate
  2/22/19
  

  America Needs an Education in Whiteness

  by Jordan Lindsey

  Not a white equivalent of Black History Month—but a better understanding of the concept of whiteness and the harm it inflicts on race relations.

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• 2/24/19
  

  Levittown, PA and The “Northern Promised Land That Wasn't”

  by Jasmine Torres and Alan Singer

  Levittown, Pennsylvania violently errupted when William and Daisy Myers moved into the suburban town in 1957. 

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• SOURCE: Slate
  2/14/19
  

  White Women and White Supremacy: Equal-Opportunity Evil

  A new history reveals that for female slaveholders, the business of human exploitation was just as profitable—and brutal—as it was for men.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  2/12/19
  

  Ibram X. Kendi: A Reading List for Ralph Northam

  by Ibram X. Kendi

  "Here’s my own anti-racist reading list for Northam and my fellow Americans who are truly awakening after their own blackface moment. It is for people realizing they were taught by their relatives and friends and the media how to be racist."

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• SOURCE: Pew Research
  2/11/19
  

  About a third of Americans say blackface in a Halloween costume is acceptable at least sometimes

  The survey was conducted almost entirely before news broke about Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam and other high-profile politicians who have been accused of wearing blackface as part of costumes when they were younger.

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• SOURCE: Mother Jones
  2/8/19
  

  Peter Wallenstein Talks About Why White Supremacy “Must Die and Yet Will Not Die”

  Professor Peter Wallenstein explains how the present mess in Virginia connects to the state’s past.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  2/7/19
  

  A Complicated Racial History Underpins Politics In Virginia

  The controversies rocking Richmond are a reminder of the complicated racial history that underpins Virginia politics.