racism

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  3/1/2021
  

  The Muddled History of Anti-Asian Violence

  The COVID pandemic has led to increased hostility and violence targeting Asian Americans. Younger activists, who want to define these attacks as crimes of bias, struggle to convince the wider society that these individual incidents are part of a historical pattern of racism. 

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• SOURCE: Al Jazeera
  2/26/2021
  

  ‘Moral Evil, Economic Good’: Whitewashing the Sins of Colonialism

  by Sabelo J Ndlovu-Gatsheni

  Recent efforts to reframe Europe's history of colonialism as a net contribution to human welfare are misguided, argues a scholar of African history. 

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• SOURCE: Slate
  3/3/2021
  

  How Dr. Seuss Responded to Critics Who Called Out His Racism

  by Rebecca Onion

  If anyone wants to examine the particulars of Dr. Seuss Enterprises' decision to discontinue the publication of six of the late author's books before jumping in to culture war combat, writer Rebecca Onion's interview with children's literature scholar Philip Nel is a good place to start. 

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• SOURCE: USA Today
  3/2/2021
  

  Mock Slave Auctions, Racist Lessons: How US History Class Often Traumatizes, Dehumanizes Black Students

  Experts acknowledge that teaching the history of slavery as a brutal and dehumanizing system is difficult. The persistence of assignments that impose humiliation on students shows more work is needed. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  2/24/2021
  

  Cherokee Nation Addresses Bias Against Descendants of Enslaved People

  The decision by tribal authorities was a significant step toward resolving the issues created by prior decisions to exclude the descendants of Black people enslaved by members of the Cherokee nation from full citizenship privileges. 

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  3/3/2021
  

  Online Roundtable: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s ‘Race for Profit’

  Black Perspectives, the blog of the African American Intellectual History Society, will sponsor a virtual roundtable on the award-winning "Race For Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership" with new essays being released beginning March 8. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  2/26/2021
  

  Shelia Washington Dies at 61; Helped Exonerate Scottsboro Boys

  Shelia Washington read the story of the Scottsboro Boys as a teen, dedicated her life to preserving knowledge of their case, and finally spearheaded an effort that led the state of Alabama to exonerate the wrongly convicted men. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/2/2021
  

  (Opinion) If Curtailing Racist Imagery in Dr. Seuss is ‘Cancel Culture,’ What, Exactly, is Your Culture?

  by Philip Bump

  Washington Post columnist suggests that accusations of "cancel culture" following the Dr. Seuss estate's decision to remove six books from print tell more about the accusers than about the subject.

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• SOURCE: KCUR
  3/2/2021
  

  What The History Of 'Noose Road' Tells Us About Kansas, Race And The Lynchings Of Black Men

  Despite its Great Plains location and history of abolitionism, Kansas has been the site of lynching, sundown towns and violent exclusion of Black residents. Historians Ashleigh Lawrence-Sanders and Jim Leiker discuss. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/2/2021
  

  Some Dr. Seuss Books with Racist Imagery will Go out of Print

  The decision, which was made by Dr. Seuss Enterprises and is neither an instance of "cancellation" nor a fatal blow to the revenue generated by the late author's works, reflects growing awareness of the impact on children of ethnic stereotypes. 

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• SOURCE: Texas Tribune
  3/1/2021
  

  “UT Needs Rich Donors”: Emails Show Wealthy Alumni Supporting “Eyes of Texas” Threatened to Pull Donations

  A number of wealthy University of Texas alumni have threatened to withhold donations unless "The Eyes of Texas," a song with roots traced to blackface minstrelsy and the Lost Cause mythology, is reinstated as the Longhorns' postgame anthem. 

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• 2/28/2021
  

  An Unwanted Journey "Home": Black American Internees in World War II Europe

  by Eve Brandel

  "Living in Europe in the interwar years, Black Americans enjoyed freedoms denied them at home, but, ironically, America’s entry into World War II meant arrest and internment for those who had not left in time."

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• 2/28/2021
  

  Racist Zoombombings the Latest Application of Technology by White Supremacists

  by Roy E. Finkenbine

  White supremacist keyboard warriors appear to have declared a cyber war against Black History Month.

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• SOURCE: NBC Los Angeles
  2/22/21
  

  New Exhibit Reckons With Glendale's Racist Past as ‘Sundown Town'

  The suburban city of Glendale, CA has initiated a series of public programs confronting its legacy as a "sundown town" where minorities, particulary African Americans, were able to work but barred from living or socializing. 

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  2/24/2021
  

  Many Black Americans Aren’t Rushing to Get the COVID-19 Vaccine – A Long History of Medical Abuse Suggests Why

  by Esther Jones

  From J. Marion Sims to the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiments to the exploitation of Henrietta Lacks' DNA, there are ample historical reasons for Black Americans to feel that medical authorities are unconcerned with their safety and mistrust new COVID vaccines. Acknowledging this history is essential for public health authorities to gain trust. 

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• SOURCE: Hartford Courant
  2/19/2021
  

  West Hartford is Mostly White, While Bloomfield is Largely Black. How that Came to be Tells the Story of Racism and Segregation in American Suburbs

  Local historians in West Hartford are working to promote public knowledge of exclusionary zoning and other practices that built and maintained racial segregation in the suburbs. 

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• SOURCE: Public Books
  2/16/2021
  

  The Arch of Injustice

  Historian Steven Hahn reviews Walter Johnson's "The Broken Heart of America," finding that Johnson makes a compelling case that St. Louis is the archetypal American city but is less effective at showing concepts like white supremacy and racial capitalism as dynamic historical processes. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  2/21/2021
  

  The Prices on Your Monopoly Board Hold a Dark Secret

  The value hierarchy of properties on the Monopoly game board reflect the history of Atlantic City; the game was created as the Great Migration brought African Americans north to New Jersey and spurred northern cities and their white residents to create and defend residential segregation. 

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• SOURCE: Atlanta Journal-Constitution
  2/23/2021
  

  Historical Markers About Notable Black Georgians Shot, Vandalized

  Markers in South Georgia paid tribute to Jackie Robinson and lynching victim Mary Turner.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  2/18/2021
  

  The Real Story of the ‘Draft Riots’

  by Elizabeth Mitchell

  "The story of the merchants’ response to the so-called Draft Riots is a reminder that we can all do more if we don’t want the lives of more Black people to be marred by cruelty."