White Supremacy

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• SOURCE: Time
  7/17/19
  

  Republicans Want a White Republic. They'll Destroy America to Get It

  by Carol Anderson

  Already, Trump and the Republicans have severely harmed the institutional heft of checks-and-balances. But they’re not done.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  7/15/19
  

  Trump’s America Is a ‘White Man’s Country’

  by Jamelle Bouie

  His racist idea of citizenship is an old one, brought back from the margins of American politics.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/15/19
  

  Tennessee just showed that white supremacy is alive and well

  by Keisha N. Blain

  Honoring a former Confederate general and KKK grand wizard in 2019 is outrageous.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/9/19
  

  The white nostalgia fueling the ‘Little Mermaid’ backlash

  by Brooke Newman

  The uproar over a black Ariel shows how important representation in children’s entertainment is.

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• SOURCE: Vox
  June 20, 2019
  

  When white supremacists overthrew a government

  by Ranjani Chakraborty

  The hidden history of a North Carolina coup.

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• 6/23/19
  

  We Need A Long-Arc Historical Perspective to Understand White Supremacist Extremist Violence.

  by Eric V. Tait, Jr.

  Much like today, in the early 1980s, people of color and the gains of the civil rights movement were increasingly under attack and many Americans wanted to “turn back the clock to an earlier era.”

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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.