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How the Use of BMI Fetishizes White Embodiment and Racializes Fat Phobia
Size-based health and beauty ideals emanated from eugenic pseudoscientific postulates, and BMI continues to advance white supremacist embodiment norms.
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Sabrina Strings
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AMA Journal Of Ethics
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July 1, 2023
Losing the Genetic Lottery
How did a field meant to reclaim genetics from Nazi abuses wind up a haven for race science?
by
Padmini Raghunath
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Distillations
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April 6, 2023
The Wonderful Death of a State
For market radicals and neo-Confederates, secession is the path to a world that’s socially divided but economically integrated—separate but global.
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Quinn Slobodian
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The Baffler
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April 4, 2023
The Pocahontas Exception: America’s Ancestor Obsession
The ‘methods and collections’ of genealogists are political because they have a great deal in common with genealogy as a way of doing history.
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Thomas W. Laqueur
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London Review of Books
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March 30, 2023
The Strange History of BMI, the Body Mass Index
BMI is a simple calculation, but how it is translated into a diagnosis is complex and flawed.
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STAT
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March 9, 2023
partner
Locking Up the Mentally Ill Has a Long History
The prospect of removing people from communities to be put in institutions has been a project of social control.
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Elliott Young
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Made By History
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January 3, 2023
Can Standardized Testing Escape Its Racist Past?
High-stakes testing has struggled with overt and implicit biases. Should it still have a place in modern education?
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Deborah Blum
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UnDark
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December 14, 2022
A Bare and Open Truth: The Penn and Slavery Project and the Public
When a university denied its legacy, students and faculty stepped in to do the research.
by
VanJessica Gladney
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Perspectives on History
on
October 19, 2022
Bodies of Knowledge
Philadelphia and the dark history of collecting human remains.
by
Samuel J. Redman
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Perspectives on History
on
September 15, 2022
The Complicity of the Textbooks
A new book traces how the writing of American history, from Reconstruction on, has falsified and illuminated our racial past.
by
Eric Foner
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New York Review of Books
on
September 5, 2022
The Sick Society
The story of a regional ruling class that struck a devil’s bargain with disease, going beyond negligence to cultivate semi-annual yellow fever epidemics.
by
Malcolm Harris
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Kathryn Olivarius
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n+1
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September 2, 2022
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The Tie Between the Buffalo Shooting and Banning Abortion
The two may seem unconnected, but a centuries-long history of panic about White birth rates binds them together.
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Mytheli Sreenivas
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Made By History
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May 20, 2022
Miscarriage Wasn’t Always a Tragedy or a Crime
Looking back on 150 years of history shows that American women grappled with miscarriages amid different legal, medical, and racial norms.
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Shannon Withycombe
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Zócalo Public Square
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May 18, 2022
Fast Horses and Eugenics
The breeding of race horses validated those aspiring to belong to an American elite while feeding into racist beliefs about genetic inheritance.
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Livia Gershon
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Brian Tyrrell
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JSTOR Daily
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May 4, 2022
Our Obsession with Ancestry Has Some Twisted Roots
From origin stories to blood-purity statutes, we have long enlisted genealogy to serve our own purposes.
by
Maya Jasanoff
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The New Yorker
on
May 2, 2022
Harvard Leaders and Staff Enslaved 79 People, University Finds
The school said it had benefited from slave-generated wealth and practiced racial discrimination.
by
Nick Anderson
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Susan Svrluga
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Washington Post
on
April 26, 2022
How Yellow Fever Intensified Racial Inequality in 19th-Century New Orleans
A new book explores how immunity to the disease created opportunities for white, but not Black, people.
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Kathryn Olivarius
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Karin Wulf
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Smithsonian
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April 19, 2022
Racism as Theory: A Historiography of White Supremacy Ideology
An overview of historical scholarship and socio-cultural developments in America to explain how racism became institutionalized against Black Americans.
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Bala James Baptiste
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Black Perspectives
on
April 1, 2022
‘Who’s Black and Why?’
A new book by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Andrew S. Curran examines how 18th-century academics understood Black identity.
by
John Samuel Harpham
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The Chronicle of Higher Education
on
March 31, 2022
partner
Politicians Dictating What Teachers Can Say About Racism Can Be Dangerous
College student essays from 1961 underscore why our current trajectory could be devastating.
by
Robert Cohen
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Made By History
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February 3, 2022
"The Last Refuge of Scoundrels"
Hiding behind "academic freedom," E. O. Wilson actively propagated race pseudoscience in collusion with white supremacists.
by
Stacy Farina
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Matthew Gibbons
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Science For The People
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February 1, 2022
“We Left All on the Ground but the Head”: J. J. Audubon’s Human Skulls
Morton and his skull measurements have long been part of the scholarship on American racism, but what happens when we draw Audubon into the racial drama?
by
Ann Fabian
via
Commonplace
on
November 12, 2021
A Long American Tradition
On the robbing of Indigenous graves throughout the 19th-century.
by
Margaret D. Jacobs
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Lapham’s Quarterly
on
October 25, 2021
The Dark Underside of Representations of Slavery
Will the Black body ever have the opportunity to rest in peace?
by
Latria Graham
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The Atlantic
on
September 16, 2021
Remembering Past Lessons about Structural Racism — Recentering Black Theorists of Health and Society
A look at African-American scholars' contributions to health disparity discourse.
by
Jeremy A. Greene
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Alexandre White
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Rachel L. J. Thornton
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The New England Journal Of Medicine
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August 26, 2021
The Color Line
W.E.B. Du Bois’s exhibit at the 1900 Paris Exposition offered him a chance to present the dramatic gains made by Black Americans since the end of slavery.
by
Annette Gordon-Reed
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New York Review of Books
on
August 5, 2021
How the Sinister Study of Eugenics Legitimized Forced Sterilization in the United States
Audrey Clare Farley on the scientists who weaponized biology.
by
Audrey Clare Farley
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Literary Hub
on
April 22, 2021
The Chilling Persistence of Eugenics
Elizabeth Catte’s new book traces a shameful history and its legacy today.
by
Chris Lehmann
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The New Republic
on
April 20, 2021
A Virginia Mental Institution for Black Patients Yields a Trove of Disturbing Records
Racism documented in files from the “Central Lunatic Asylum for the Colored Insane.”
by
Britt Peterson
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Washington Post Magazine
on
March 26, 2021
The Racist Beginnings of Standardized Testing
From grade school to college, students of color have suffered from the effects of biased testing.
by
John Rosales
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Tim Walker
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National Education Association
on
March 20, 2021
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