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Bearing Risks and Being Watched

The individualization of risk that we often think of as part of neoliberalism already existed strongly in the early 20th century.
by Greta R. Krippner via Public Books on February 26, 2019

Black Farmworkers in the Central Valley: Escaping Jim Crow for a Subtler Kind of Racism

"The difference between here and the South is just that — it's hidden."
by Alexandra Hall via KQED on February 22, 2019

The Women Who Contributed to Science but Were Buried in Footnotes

In a new study, researchers uncovered female programmers who made important but unrecognized contributions to genetics.
by Ed Yong via The Atlantic on February 11, 2019
Martin Luther King Jr. speaking into news microphones.

MLK Warned Us of the Well-Intentioned Liberal

Dr. King did not compromise on racial justice. Neither should we.
by Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, William J. Barber II via The Nation on January 18, 2019
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“All Persons Born or Naturalized in the United States...”

A collection of resources exploring the evolving meanings of American citizenship and how they have been applied -- or denied -- to different groups of Americans.

In Found Audio, a Forgotten Civil Rights Leader Says Coming Out Was an Absolute Necessity

Though Bayard Rustin, close adviser to Martin Luther King Jr., was gay, his legacy is not well known in the queer community.
by Michel Martin via NPR on January 6, 2019
A modern adaption of Howard Chandler Christy’s 1940 painting, “Scene at the Signing of the Constitution of the United States,” with contemporary players on both sides of the judicial contest.

How The Federalist Society is Helping Conservatives Win The Judicial War

It isn’t just about Supreme Court picks. The group’s impact on the law goes much deeper.
by David Montgomery via Washington Post Magazine on January 2, 2019

A New Way of Seeing 200 Years of American Immigration

To depict how waves of immigrants shaped the United States, a team of designers looked to nature as a model.
by Tanvi Misra via CityLab on December 17, 2018
Graphic symbolizing a college stopping African Americans from entering the door.

What We Get Wrong About Affirmative Action

The lawsuit against Harvard forces us to talk about Asian Americans' role in the racial equity debate.
via Vox on December 10, 2018
Finely decorated women's restroom lounge

The Glamorous, Sexist History of the Women’s Restroom Lounge

Separate areas with sofas, vanities, and even writing tables used to put the “rest” in women’s restrooms. Why were these spaces built, and why did they vanish?
by Elizabeth Yuko via CityLab on December 3, 2018

African-American Veterans Hoped Their Service in WWI Would Secure Their Rights at Home. It Didn't.

Black people emerged from the war bloodied and scarred. Still, the war marked a turning point in their struggles for freedom.
by Chad Williams via TIME on November 12, 2018
Image of Hassan, a Syrian-American man

Syrian in Sioux Falls

In the 1920s, Syrian-Americans were compelled to prove their worth in a society where nativism was on the rise and citizenship often meant being considered white.
by Chris Gratien via Ottoman History Podcast on November 5, 2018

The Original Constitution of the United States: Religion, Race, and Gender

The Constitution of 2018 is not the Constitution written by the Framers in 1787, and no one should wish otherwise.
by Richard D. Brown via Medium on September 20, 2018

Rereading Childhood Books Teaches Adults About Themselves

Whether they delight or disappoint, old books provide touchstones for tracking personal growth.
by Emma Court via The Atlantic on July 27, 2018

My Great-Grandfather, the Nigerian Slave-Trader

White traders couldn’t have loaded their ships without help from Africans like my great-grandfather.
by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani via The New Yorker on July 15, 2018

The Disappearing Story of the Black Homesteaders Who Pioneered The West

Once-vibrant African American homesteading communities are falling to ruin.
by Richard Edwards via Washington Post on July 5, 2018
Laura Ingalls Wilder

Librarians without Chests: A Response to the ALSC’s Denigration of Laura Ingalls Wilder

A network of professional librarians seeks to destroy a beloved literary heroine and malign her creator.
by Dedra McDonald Birzer via National Review on June 26, 2018
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The Train at Wood's Crossing

Piecing together the story of an 1898 lynching in a community that chose to forget most of the details.
by Brendan Wolfe via brendanwolfe.com on June 17, 2018
Cover of the 1940 Negro Motorist Green Book.
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Traveling While Black

In 1936, Victor Green published a guide of restaurants, gas stations and lodgings that would accommodate African Americans travelling across the country.
via BackStory on June 1, 2018
Cover of "First Martyr of Liberty," featuring a painting of Crispus Attucks facing a British soldier with a bayonet.

Crispus Attucks, American Revolutionary Hero

With so little documentary evidence about his life, he is a virtual blank slate upon which different people at different times have inscribed a variety of meanings.
by Mitch Kachun, Stephen G. Hall via Black Perspectives on May 30, 2018
Book of Mormon

Mormons Confront a History of Church Racism

The Mormon church is still grappling with a racial past.
by Matthew Bowman via The Conversation on May 29, 2018

Are Museums the Rightful Home for Confederate Monuments?

As museums formulate their approach to re-contextualization, they must also recognize their own histories of complicity.
by Elizabeth Merritt via American Alliance of Museums on April 3, 2018
Charley Pride on stage.

Charley Pride’s Music Taught Listeners That Country Music Was Black Music, Too

The mythology of cowboy culture is aggressively white, but there was always a black West.
by Nina Renata Aron via Timeline on February 12, 2018
Girls in Appalachia in 1935.

The Invention of the 'White Working Class'

A spate of new books explores the composition and motivations of the demographic that has been credited with electing Trump.
by Andrew J. Perrin via Public Books on January 30, 2018
Tommie Smith and John Carlos protesting as they receive medals at the 1968 Summer Olympics.
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Black Power Salute

The founder of the Olympic Project for Human Rights talks about the iconic protest by Tommie Smith and John Carlos on the winners’ podium in 1968.
via BackStory on January 26, 2018

Who Segregated America?

For all of its strengths, Richard Rothstein’s new book does not account for the central role capitalism played in segregating America's cities.
by Destin Jenkins via Public Books on December 21, 2017
Belle Meade Plantation in Tennessee.

Black Women’s Voices and the Archive

The archive silences the voices of Black women, invalidating the realities of Black women and subjecting enslaved and free(d) women to epistemic violence.
by Halee Robinson via Black Perspectives on November 15, 2017
Ta-Nehisi Coates.

Keeping the Faith

Ta-Nehisi Coates' latest book preaches political fatalism. But black activism has always believed in the possibility of change.
by Melvin L. Rogers via Boston Review on November 1, 2017

Recontextualizing the Ocean Blue

Italian Americans and the commemoration of Columbus.
by Laura E. Ruberto, Joseph Sciorra via Process: A Blog for American History on October 4, 2017

World War I: Immigrants Make a Difference on the Front Lines and at Home

Immigrants eagerly joined the war cause both by joining the military and working in important industry at home.
by Ryan Reft via Library of Congress on September 26, 2017
Drawing of someone holding a photo of a Black family in front of a suburban home, and lighting the photo on fire.

America’s Shameful History of Housing Discrimination

The practice of “redlining” kept people of color from home loans for decades.
by Jamie Hibdon via The Nib on September 25, 2017
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