racism

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• SOURCE: Christian Science Monitor
  9/22/2020
  

  Alabama's State Archives Confronts Its Racist Past

  In June, leaders formally acknowledged the department’s past role in perpetuating racism and so-called “lost cause” ideals.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  9/21/2020
  

  We Need Civics Education — Not The White Power Propaganda Trump Promotes

  by Max Boot

  While history education in American needs to be drastically improved, Donald Trump's proposed 1776 Commission isn't the way to go. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  9/24/2020
  

  The Origins of Policing in America

  Historian Khalil Gibran Muhammad and Media Studies scholar Chenjerai Kumanyika explain how American policing grew out of efforts to control the labor of poor and enslaved people.

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  9/21/2020
  

  Eric Williams’ Foundational Work on Slavery, Industry, and Wealth

  by Katie Donington

  Debates over Eric Williams’s work have ebbed and flowed ever since he first published Capitalism and Slavery in 1944. His book inspired a body of historiography to which many historians of slavery and abolition have added their voices over the decades.

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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: Austin Chronicle
  9/25/2020
  

  Ways of Remembering: A Racial Geography Tour of UT-Austin’s Campus

  What makes the campus such a great teaching tool? "Nothing goes up on a college campus that hasn't been thought through," explains Gordon. "Everything that gets placed and gets named on a college campus has a meaning behind it."

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• SOURCE: Iowa Public Radio
  9/23/2020
  

  “The White Man Who Stayed” Tells A Story Of Activism During The Civil Rights Era (audio)

  Poet James Autry's newest book tells the story of his cousin, a white man who remained in Mississippi as a liberal advocate for integration and justice. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
  9/21/2020
  

  Though Often Mythologized, the Texas Rangers Have an Ugly History of Brutality

  by Jonathan S. Jones

  The link between racial violence and Texas law enforcement goes all the way back to the state’s original police force, the Texas Rangers.

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• SOURCE: TIME
  9/22/2020
  

  Ibram X. Kendi: 100 Most Influential of 2020

  The Rev. Al Sharpton honors Prof. Ibram X. Kendi as a scholar engaged with antiracist activism and an intellectual guide for this year's protest movements.

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  9/23/2020
  

  Is Freedom White?

  by Jefferson Cowie

  In American mythology, there exists a gauzy past when white citizens were left alone to do as they pleased with their land and their labor (even if it was land stolen and labor enslaved). In the legend, those days of freedom and equality were, and still are, perpetually under assault. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  9/23/2020
  

  Allegations of Racism have Marked Trump’s Presidency and Become Key Issue as Election Nears

  Historian Carol Anderson identifies Trump's ruling vision with the post-Civil War reaction led by Andrew Johnson, who was "really the president of a few people, not the American people." Interviews with some of Trump's close aides affirm that assessment, and even Trump's West Wing supporters concede that he is widely perceived as racist.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  9/23/2020
  

  Cost Of Racism: U.S. Economy Lost $16 Trillion Because Of Discrimination, Bank Says

  Citigroup's recommendations aren't new: various studies have shown similar findings and experts have called for similar action for years, though so far progress has been slow.

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• SOURCE: CNN
  9/21/2020
  

  Why President Trump is Targeting the 1619 Project

  by Julian Zelizer

  "There is nothing unpatriotic about a clear-eyed view of our nation's past. Indeed, understanding the problems and failures at the center of our nation is to take our history seriously."

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  9/21/2020
  

  Conservatives Are Already Whitewashing the Trump Years

  Danielle Pletka’s historical revision of Jesse Helms’s career shows how Trumpists will rationalize their role in this disastrous presidency.

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• SOURCE: Bloomberg CityLab
  9/21/2020
  

  A Neighborhood’s Race Affects Home Values More Now Than in 1980

  by Brentin Mock

  The real estate industry has adopted appraisal standards in response to fair housing laws that are, on the surface, race-neutral. But they don't account for the ways that racism has lowered the sale value in diverse neighborhoods, and still penalize Black and Latino homeowners. 

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• SOURCE: Bloomberg
  9/21/2020
  

  Look What Has Been Taken From Black Americans

  It's difficult to quantify the financial cost to Black Americans of racism and segregation. But the destruction of property and denial of trade by white mobs in Elaine, Arkansas in 1919 was quantified by Ida B. Wells-Barnett; her findings can put the scope of a reparations program into some perspective.

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• SOURCE: Lakeland (FL) Ledger
  9/20/2020
  

  Black and White Polk Pastors Overcome Racism in Show of Forgiveness and Grace

  Richard Harris and Kenneth Stephens committed to Christian demands for forgiveness and reconciliation, and have shared their personal stories in an effort to heal racial divisions. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/17/2020
  

  Princeton Admitted Past Racism. Now It Is Under Investigation.

  The Trump administration opened a civil rights investigation into the university after its president acknowledged the role of systemic racism at the school.

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• 9/20/2020
  

  Unlike the Germans We Have Failed to Recognize and Atone for Our Holocausts

  by Walter G. Moss

  Reconciling America's racial divisions requires honest reckoning with the past, and teaching history as a search for the truth, not an effort to inclulcate patriotism, placate parents, or pander to censorious textbook commissions.

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• SOURCE: Decaturish
  9/16/2020
  

  ‘The Right Kind of Neighbors’ – Race and the Origins of Avondale Estates

  by Kathryn Wilson

  An Atlanta suburb's history connects to the history of American race relations, beginning as a planned all-white community with a segregated Black enclave and ties to the KKK.