Race 
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SOURCE: The New York Times
4/19/2020
Why the Virus Is a Civil Rights Issue: ‘The Pain Will Not Be Shared Equally’
First came early data showing that the coronavirus affected African-Americans disproportionately. Then came the fight for a fair response and recovery.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
2/17/20
Pete Buttigieg’s race problem
by Tyler D. Parry
He doesn’t truly understand the problems plaguing black America and their racist roots.
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SOURCE: The Conversation
1/16/20
Universities must open their archives and share their oppressive pasts
by Evadne Kelly and Carla Rice
The archives of academic institutions can tell previously untold stories of eugenics. Universities can begin to undo oppressive legacies by opening them to artists and communities.
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SOURCE: NY Times
1/17/20
The Injustice of This Moment Is Not an ‘Aberration’
by Michelle Alexander
From mass incarceration to mass deportation, our nation remains in deep denial.
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SOURCE: Boston Review
1/20/20
The Radical Lives of Abolitionists
by Britt Rusert
History has tended to sanitize the lives of abolitionists, many of whom were involved in other radical movements as well, including Free Love, which promoted women’s independence and an end to traditional marriage. A review of Holly Jackson's American Radicals: How Nineteenth-Century Protest Shaped the Nation.
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SOURCE: NY Times
1/20/20
The Neighborhoods We Will Not Share
by Richard Rothstein
Persistent housing segregation lies at the root of many of our society’s problems. Trump wants to make it worse.
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1/19/20
What Dreams of Canada Tell Us About Race in America
by April Rosenblum
At a time when American casualties in Vietnam were disproportionately African American, most of those who successfully made it to Canada to resist the draft were white.
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12/29/19
Confederate Monuments in National Perspective
by Thomas J. Brown
Northern monuments established a foundation for the argument that Confederate military service deserves recognition although rendered in a deplorable cause.
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SOURCE: The Conversation
12/13/19
Memo from a historian: White ladies cooking in plantation museums are a denial of history
by Kelley Fanto Deetz
I spent a decade researching and writing about enslaved plantation cooks and lecture on the topic at historic sites.
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SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
12/17/19
Professor Removed Then Reinstated Over Discussion on Race
Louisiana Tech University briefly removed an instructor of history from teaching over class discussions on race and other topics before reinstating him this month.
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12/8/19
The Problem with Ken Burns' Country Music
by Peter LaChapelle
What would a Country Music that deals with country music’s complicated and often problematic political history look like?
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SOURCE: AHA Perspectives
11/12/19
History Has a Race Problem, and It’s Existential
by Allison Miller
White people dominate the study of history, as students and as those who earn PhDs.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
11/12/19
How racial segregation exacerbates flooding in Baton Rouge
by William Horne
Strategies of segregation and secession to hoard resources are leaving the whole metropolitan area unprepared for rising waters.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
11/7/19
Why Popeyes markets its chicken sandwich to African Americans
by Marcia Chatelain
Popeyes has long cultivated a black customer base — which has positive and negative ramifications.
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SOURCE: NY Times
10/26/19
A Racist Attack Shows How Whiteness Evolves
by Nell Irvin Painter
An assault at a New Jersey high school football game had an unexpected cast of characters.
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SOURCE: AP
10/22/19
A 1946 Mob Lynching Case in Georgia Puts Court Focus on Grand Jury Secrecy
Historian Anthony Pitch's quest for the truth about a gruesome mob lynching of two black couples is prompting a U.S. appeals court to consider whether federal judges can order grand jury records unsealed in decades-old cases with historical significance.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
10/23/19
So you want to talk about lynching? Understand this first.
by Michele Norris
Let’s face it as the terror and the terrorism it was.
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10/22/19
Citations Are a Metaphor for Erasure in American History
by Anne C. Bailey
Last week, the Washington Post failed to cite my book in an article about "The Weeping Time." Here's why such oversights matter.
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SOURCE: USA Today
10/17/19
USA Today Publishes New Articles As Part Of Series, "1619: Searching for Answers"
The articles explore the different ways the legacy of slavery has shaped America.
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SOURCE: Vox
10/14/19
How the US stole thousands of Native American children
The long and brutal history of the US trying to “kill the Indian and save the man.”
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