racism

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• SOURCE: Activist History
  7/2/2020
  

  Suspect Science: Today’s Anglo-American Eugenics

  by Alexandra Fair

  Time and time again, the Pioneer Fund subsidized research that advanced eugenic theories about racial difference and actively undermined racial equality.

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• SOURCE: Hattiesburg American
  7/2/2020
  

  Confederate Monument in Mississippi City Pays Tribute to Past that Never Was

  by William Sturkey

  That monument does not deserve its place of reverence. It never did. And it’s never too late to tell the truth.

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• SOURCE: TIME
  7/1/2020
  

  The 1898 Wilmington Massacre Is an Essential Lesson in How State Violence Has Targeted Black Americans

  by David Zucchino

  The coup was the natural outgrowth of North Carolina’s – and America’s – long history of relying on white police to perpetuate white supremacy amid fears of Black uprisings.

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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  6/30/2020
  

  Fear of Falling: Can Making Black Lives Matter Rescue a Failing State?

  by Rebecca Gordon

  Recent American failures to control vigilante violence, provide public services, and reach common decisions are indicative of a failing state; addressing demands of the Black Lives Matter movement will push America to rebuild its capacity to work for the common good. 

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• SOURCE: NPR
  6/30/2020
  

  As Palmdale Grapples With A Hanging Death, Locals Recall The Area's Racist History

  Because of the area's troubled past, it's easy for locals to think the worst happened to Fuller.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  7/1/2020
  

  ‘A Conflicted Cultural Force’: What It’s Like to Be Black in Publishing

  When historian Kerri K. Greenidge was trying to publish her book on William Trotter, publishers responded with "who was going to read a book about a Black man that nobody had ever heard about?"

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• SOURCE: CNN
  7/1/2020
  

  Mississippi Changing Its Flag Isn't the End of Confederate Symbols in State Flags

  "For the first third of our nation's history, from about 1777 to 1861, it was almost unheard of for individual Americans to fly the flag," says historian Marc Leepson.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  6/26/2020
  

  Beyond ‘White Fragility’: If you Want to Let Freedom Ring, Hammer on Economic Injustice.

  by Jamelle Bouie

  The histories of Reconstruction by W.E.B. Du Bois and Eric Foner, as well as the later speeches and writings of Martin Luther King, Jr. demonstrate that the cause of racial justice has never been separable from closing the vast economic gulf between owners and workers in America. 

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• SOURCE: New York Magazine
  7/30/2020
  

  The Best Histories of U.S. Policing, According to Experts

  A panel of experts including historians Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Simon Balto, Max Felker-Kantor, Carl Suddler, Stuart Schrader and Melanie Newport assemble a reading list for understanding policing and its relationship to racism and social class in the US. 

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• SOURCE: Times of Israel
  6/30/2020
  

  St. Louis’s Statue of Pius XII: A Double-Standard

  by Eunice G. Pollack

  If Yale has renamed a residential college named for John C. Calhoun and Princeton will cease to name its public policy school after Woodrow Wilson, the Jesuit St. Louis University should consider evidence of Pope Pius XII's actions in the face of the Holocaust and remove his statue from campus. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  6/30/2020
  

  The Scars of Being Policed While Black (video)

  by Laurence Ralph

  Anthropologist and police violence researcher Laurence Ralph made the film above to explain exactly what it means to be policed in America today. It moves from my own experiences with racial profiling as a teenager to the horrific history of police torture in Chicago.

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• SOURCE: TIME
  6/26/2020
  

  The Asian American Response to Black Lives Matter Is Part of a Long, Complicated History

  “Asian Americans owe so much of their presence in this country to the Black struggle for freedom — from birthright citizenship to the ability to tell our stories in education and the culture to the civil rights we enjoy,” says author Jeff Chang.

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• SOURCE: WBUR
  6/29/2020
  

  Family Of Woman Who Portrayed Aunt Jemima Speaks Out About Quaker Oats's Rebranding Decision

  To keep her aunt’s legacy alive, Harris says her family hopes Quaker Oats comes out with a commemorative box to recognize the many women who portrayed Aunt Jemima over the years.

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• SOURCE: National Geographic
  6/29/2020
  

  As Monuments Fall, How Does The World Reckon With A Racist Past?

  Historian Kevin Gaines discusses the growing movement to challenge memorialization of racists in public places and suggests its cross-racial nature makes it harder to ignore. 

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  6/29/2020
  

  The Surprising Cross-Racial Saga of Modern Wealth Inequality

  by Adolph Reed Jr.

  A political scientist argues that the black-white wealth gap is mostly a product of four decades of income gains accruing to the highest earners; accordingly a broad economic justice program is the best way to close the wealth gap. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  6/26/2020
  

  A Debate Over Identity and Race Asks, Are African-Americans ‘Black’ or ‘black’?

  For proponents of capitalizing black, there are grammatical reasons — it is a proper noun, referring to a specific group of people with a shared political identity, shaped by colonialism and slavery. 

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  6/30/2020
  

  Confronting the Living History of the Civil Rights Struggle (Video)

  by André Robert Lee

  In this video, we meet Sylvester, a man born and raised in the same town where Emmett Till was tortured and lynched. His story, his connection to the land and the people, and his recollection of that fateful event compels us to bear witness.

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• SOURCE: The Intercept
  6/27/2020
  

  Scholar Robin D.G. Kelley on how Today’s Abolitionist Movement can Fundamentally Change the Country

  "Part of defunding the police is a recognition that the police, as constituted, make life more dangerous for vulnerable populations even as it creates a sense of false safety for white people."

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• SOURCE: CNN
  6/28/2020
  

  Nikole Hannah-Jones on the Case for Reparations

  The creator of The New York Times 1619 project and Pulitzer Prize winner Nikole Hannah-Jones speaks with CNN's Manu Raju about the history behind the wealth gap between white Americans and Black Americans

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/29/2020
  

  Reparations Need to be Part of the Conversation about Racial Justice

  by Nichole Nelson

  Understanding how government policy held African Americans back economically — and advantaged whites — long after ending slavery, shows why the reparations discussion is once again growing.