immigration

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  9/25/2022
  

  When Italian Immigrants were Tricked into Debt Peonage in the Jim Crow South

  A labor agency in Mississippi experimented with a creative, if evil, solution to the problem of Black demands for labor rights at the turn of the 20th century: trick Italian farmers to sign contracts that shackled them with debt to their employers.  

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  9/20/2022
  

  Governors DeSantis and Abbott Borrow from the Jim Crow Playbook

  by Greta de Jong

  "Immigration scholars have noted how U.S. foreign policies contributed to the poverty and violence in Central and South America that migrants are fleeing. Yet rather than acknowledge this – along with assuming the moral responsibilities it entails – some GOP leaders denigrate and dehumanize refugees to win support from voters."

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• SOURCE: CNN
  9/15/2022
  

  DeSantis's Stunt Echoes a Cruel Chapter of American History

  by Nicole Hemmer

  The latest immigration stunt shows a Republican party committed to trolling its enemies and disinterested in actual immigration policy.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/14/2022
  

  Los Angeles to Memorialize 1871 Anti-Chinese Massacre

  Architect Annie Chu describes the task of using design and space to evoke an emotional connection to the victims of mass violence whose identities and stories have been largely lost. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  9/16/2022
  

  DeSantis's Martha's Vineyard Stunt Echoes "Reverse Freedom Rides" of Civil Rights Era

  The segregationist White Citizens Councils hoped to use the media to dunk on northern liberals by sending poor African Americans north with false promises of jobs, housing and services. 

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  8/16/2022
  

  Salman Rushdie Changed Everything

  by Siva Vaidhyanathan

  The novelist's creative brilliance and critical acclaim signaled a moment for south Asian people around the world to see themselves outside the frame of colonialism and to grapple with the subcontinent's ethnic and religious fissures. 

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• SOURCE: Minnesota Public Radio
  8/12/2022
  

  Kelly Lytle Hernández on the Linked Histories of Mexico and the US

  "Many Americans don’t know that the histories of the United States and Mexico are inseparably intertwined. But historian Kelly Lytle Hernández says you cannot fully understand one without the other."

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  8/16/2022
  

  The Disturbing History of Sending Migrants to Other States

  by Hidetaka Hirota

  In the context of intense anti-Irish nativism, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts expelled and deported poor immigrants without due process. 

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• 8/7/2022
  

  The COVID Era is the Latest Episode of Medical Scapegoating of Asian Immigrants

  by Catherine Ceniza Choy

  From smallpox to COVID, Asian Americans have been blamed and attacked for supposedly causing disease, while their contributions to American health have been ignored. This medical scapegoating and the violence that often follow it demonstrate the need to teach more Asian American history. 

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• SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
  8/1/2022
  

  For Decades, Whites Used "Colorblind" Rhetoric to Stall Equality. Now the Right Wing is Dropping the Charade

  LA Times Columnist Jean Guerrero checks with legal historian Ian Haney López about the resurgence of openly white identity politics on the mainstream right as pundits and candidates abandon the idea of protecting a level playing field to say whites need protection.

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• SOURCE: Slate
  7/4/2022
  

  If "Heathen" Sounds Outdated, Historian Kathryn Gim Lum Says it Still Explains Racism in America

  The concept of heathenism has always served to distinguish Americans as a group deserving of their good fortune and apart from others in need of transformation, either by persuasion or by violence. 

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• SOURCE: Governing
  6/16/2022
  

  A.K. Sandoval-Strausz: Did Latinos Save the American City?

  The historian argues that the "creative class" explanation for urban resurgence focuses on affluent white professionals while ignoring the role of Latino immigrants in revitalizing urban communities. 

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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: The Drift
  6/9/2022
  

  The Dark Underside of the "Family-Like" Business

  by Erik Baker

  The history of businesses cloaking their labor practices in paternalism is long; the most recent chapter dates back to the spiritual explorations of the 1960s counterculture and the surveillance practices of Henry Ford. 

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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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• 5/29/2022
  

  There is a Real "Great Replacement" – But Not the One the Right Talks About

  by Guy Lancaster

  Arkansas history shows how the true Great Replacement in the United States has been organized by oligarchs hoping to use immigrant labor to undercut Black people's demands for economic fairness and human rights. 

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• SOURCE: The Bulwark
  5/20/2022
  

  Is the Left Involved in its Own "Great Replacement"?

  by Cathy Young

  No – while the Democrats have been publicly (and perhaps unjustifiably) confident that demographic change favors their electoral interests, the right is bringing a racist conspiracy theory from the fringes to the mainstream.

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• 5/22/2022
  

  California Isn't a Liberal Sanctuary where Asian Americans are Concerned

  by Hao Huang

  Anti-Chinese racism and violence has always been part of the nightmare underside of the California dream. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/15/2022
  

  "Great Replacement" Rhetoric has not Historically Been Out of Place in the Halls of Power

  Mississippi Senator Theodore Bilbo published a book in 1947 declaring that the failure to ensure racial segregation and Anglo-Saxon supremacy would lead to the destruction of American civilization. 

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• SOURCE: Labor and Working Class History Association
  5/4/2022
  

  The Laundry Workers' Uprising and the Fight for Democratic Unionism

  by Jenny Carson

  African American and Black Caribbean immigrant women were key organizers of New York laundry workers who pushed for a union movement that rejected divisions of occupation, race and nationality in favor of workplace democracy.