Race

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• 12/8/19
  

  The Problem with Ken Burn's 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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• SOURCE: NY Times
  10/12/19
  

  How Italians Became ‘White’

  by Brent Staples

  Italians who had come to the country as “free white persons” were often marked as black because they accepted “black” jobs in the Louisiana sugar fields or because they chose to live among African-Americans.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/9/19
  

  Impeachment is the latest chapter in the battle between democracy and white supremacy

  by Carol Anderson

  The connections aren’t as obvious, but America’s front lines remain the same as they’ve always been.

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• SOURCE: AP
  10/5/19
  

  America’s last slave ship could offer a case for reparations

  The history of Meaher and the slave ship Clotilda may offer one of the more clear-cut cases for slavery reparations, with identifiable perpetrators and victims.

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  10/2/19
  

  Black Workers and Consumers in the Long Civil Rights Movement

  by Aimee Loiselle

  Historian Aimee Loiselle discusses Traci Parker's new book Department Stores and the Black Freedom Movement: Workers, Consumers, and Civil Rights from the 1930s to the 1980s.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  September 27, 2019
  

  400 years later, America still has so much to learn about its racial history

  by Lonnie Bunch

  Slavery was central to the country’s formation: its economy, its government, its identity, its entire way of life. Without a systemized, entrenched slave trade, America would not have grown to the extent it did. During the past 400 years, the fault lines created in our foundation by a fundamentally dehumanizing system have periodically cracked wide-open. From the Civil War to the violent backlash in response to Reconstruction; from the segregation of Jim Crow laws to persistent inequities in economic outcomes, housing policy and the criminal-justice system, the specter of 1619 continues to haunt us.

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  9/12/19
  

  What White Kids Learn About Race in School

  by Eric Loomis

  Sixty-five years after Brown v. Board of Education, U.S. schools remain largely segregated. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  9/17/2019
  

  Joe Biden isn’t the only Democrat who has blamed black America for its problems

  by Marcia Chatelain

  Well-meaning liberals have long failed to recognize their own role in systems of oppression.

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• SOURCE: Time
  9/11/19
  

  Busing Ended 20 Years Ago. Today Our Schools Are Segregated Once Again

  by Gloria J. Browne-Marshall

  Any desegregation plans must be a shared burden. But are we willing to take it on?

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  9/9/19
  

  What Did Daniel Patrick Moynihan Actually Think About Race? Historians Discuss in the Atlantic

  by John Hoberman and Tim Naftali

  After Tim Naftali's article on Ronald Reagan's racism earlier this year, the Atlantic published two letters discussing Daniel Patrick Moynihan's views on race. 

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• SOURCE: University of Arkansas News
  9/4/19
  

  Historian Caree Banton Publishes New Book on Race and Identity in Atlantic World

  Banton closely examines the Afro-Barbadians and provides a transatlantic approach to understanding the political and sociocultural consequences of their migration and settlement in Africa.