racism

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  11/16/2020
  

  Enslaved, Terrorized, Disenfranchised: Black Americans Still Found Ways to Change America (Review)

  by Kerri Greenidge

  A professor of African diaspora studies reviews two recent books about the antebellum period as part of a scholarly trend to recognize not only that slaves worked to achieve their own freedom but that the acts of fugitive slaves shaped the path to war, emancipation and abolition. 

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• SOURCE: Rolling Stone
  11/19/2020
  

  The Untouchables: An Investigation into the Violence of the Chicago Police

  by Paul Solotaroff

  Historian Simon Balto is among experts who place the Chicago Police Department's treatment of the city's Black communities in historical perspective. 

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  11/17/2020
  

  I Don't Have to Forgive Joe Biden

  by Christopher Lebron

  "I choose to believe he is ready to be transformed by the times, his peers, and the mandate given to him in defeating good ol’ white supremacy. I can accept Biden for the purpose of dealing with him for the moment."

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  11/15/2020
  

  Michael Holding: 'This is something I’ve had inside of me for years'

  A legendary Jamaican cricketer and broadcaster has recently gone public to share his experiences of racism and support current protests for racial justice. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  11/12/2020
  

  ‘The Reagans’ Review: Making America Great Again, Round 1

  "The series provides a steady succession of parallels between Reagan and Donald J. Trump, none labeled as such but all difficult to miss."

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  11/11/2020
  

  A Battle Between the Two Souls of America

  by Ibram X. Kendi

  We the people of the United States do not have a single national soul, but rather two souls, warring with each other. The battle for the soul of America is actually the battle between the souls of America.

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  11/6/2020
  

  Trump’s Presidency May Be Over. The Effects of Trumpism on Campus are Not

  The Trump presidency has raised issues about the extent of racial resentment in White America, the significance of identity politics, and the place of intellectual discovery and academic research in American life that are a long way from resolution. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  11/9/2020
  

  ‘You Cannot Let The Media Lynch VMI,’ Virginia State Senator Warns

  Thomas K. Norment, who graduated from VMI in 1968, made the remark in a special session at the Science Museum of Virginia before a vote to appropriate $1 million for an investigation into racism at the state-supported military college.

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• SOURCE: New York Review of Books
  11/9/2020
  

  An American Pogrom (Review)

  by David W. Blight

  David W. Blight reviews a new book on the 1898 Wilmington massacre and the violent overthrow of multiracial democracy in North Carolina. 

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• SOURCE: KJZZ
  11/5/2020
  

  ASU Professor Explains 'Interracial Racism' And The History Between Asian And Black Americans

  Asian American studies scholar Karen Kuo discusses the complex relationship between Asian and African Americans and sources of solidarity and division among minority groups. 

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• SOURCE: Nursing Clio
  11/5/2020
  

  The Racist Lady with the Lamp

  by Natalie Stake-Doucet

  "Nursing historiography is centered on whiteness. Even worse, nursing history revolves largely around a single white nurse: Florence Nightingale. This, unfortunately, doesn’t mean nurses understand who Nightingale was."

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  11/3/2020
  

  We Must Do More to Honor the People and Places Lost to Violent Racism

  by Walter Greason

  Teaching a course about collective racial violence in the United States showed a professor the extent to which this history is both integral to the nation and completely hidden from the majority of Americans. 

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• SOURCE: IndieWire
  11/2/2020
  

  Chris Rock Sounds Off on Hating Civil Rights Movies: ‘They Make Racism Look Very Fixable’

  Rock did not call out any Civil Rights movies by name, although his argument that such films “make racism look very fixable” were the same criticisms thrown at Best Picture winner “Green Book.”

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  11/2/2020
  

  Kentucky State Police Quoted Hitler and Encouraged Cadets to be ‘Ruthless’ in a Training Program

  The rhetoric in the slide show is consistent with “warrior-style” police training, which teaches officers to dehumanize people to act aggressively and forcefully. It also trains officers to approach every encounter with citizens as having a possibility of becoming dangerous or fatal.

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• SOURCE: Politico
  10/29/2020
  

  The Secret Power of White Supremacy — and How Anti-Racists Can Take It Back

  by Cord J. Whitaker

  The far right has long used chivalric language to advocate for white supremacy and the forcible defense of social hierarchy. A medievalist explains why their perception of history is wrong and how to respond. 

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• SOURCE: Made by History at The Washington Post
  10/29/2020
  

  This Year’s Elections Will Decide Whether America Witnesses A Third Reconstruction

  by David A. Love

  The United States has twice attempted to reorganize the nation's politics and institutions around principles of equality, and failed. A third reconstruction is needed to realize the promise of the Fourteenth Amendment. 

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• SOURCE: Vice
  11/2/2020
  

  The Man Who Helped Turn 4chan Into the Internet's Racist Engine

  A look at the people who enabled the creation of a far-right sewer of racism and bigotry on the internet.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  10/26/2020
  

  A Teacher, His Killer and the Failure of French Integration

  The murder of a French social studies teacher who showed his multiethnic class images offensive to Islam illustrates the dilemma of the French policy of secularism, which is beset on one side by complaints that immigrants do not assimilate and on the other by rising xenophobia and racism.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/26/2020
  

  We’re Better than This. Aren’t We?

  by Max Boot

  We certainly should be better than this.

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• SOURCE: Charlotte Observer
  10/26/2020
  

  In Battleground North Carolina, Donald Trump Is Taking Jesse Helms’s Last Stand

  Donald Trump's chances in North Carolina depend on whether he can successfully deploy the politics of white resentment mastered by the state's longtime senator Jesse Helms.