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SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
9/24/2020
Why Supermarkets Are Powerful Flash Points In Racial Politics
by Tracey Deutsch and James McElroy
In addition to selling food, grocery stores have also preserved a social order that treats shoppers of different races differently, dispensing hierarchy along with food — and, in fact, creating it.
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SOURCE: Philadelphia Inquirer
4/7/2020
Historians Throw Shade at Colorism Conflict in Netflix’s ‘Self Made’ Madam C.J. Walker Series
Critics of Self Made could not contain their indignation over Walker’s life narrative being twisted into a colorism-fueled cat fight, an early 1900s Real Housewives.
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3/27/2020
"Rogue" Manufacturing in China: Past and Present
by Eugenia Lean
As China’s economic power grows, global intellectual property might end up looking more and more like the Chinese tradition of shanzhai in the future.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
3/26/2020
The Power of Purell Compels You!
The Purellification of America is about sanitation, but it is really about sanity. Fear, control, and the fear that we have no control.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
3/18/2020
Toilet Paper Takes Center Stage Amid Coronavirus Outbreak
Be thankful we no longer use corn cobs and rope ends.
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SOURCE: Smithsonian Magazine Online
11/26/19
A Brief History of the Crock-Pot
Eighty years after it was patented, the Crock-Pot remains a comforting presence in American kitchens.