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Phrenology Is Here to Stay

“Pseudoscience,” race, and American politics.
by Courtney E. Thompson via Medium on February 11, 2021
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Years of Medical Abuse Make Black Americans Less Likely to Trust the Coronavirus Vaccine

Reckoning with our past is crucial to getting buy-in for the vaccine.
by Dan Royles via Made By History on December 15, 2020

How Eugenics Shaped Statistics

Exposing the damned lies of three science pioneers.
by Aubrey Clayton via Nautilus on October 28, 2020

Trump's Touting of 'Racehorse Theory' Tied to Eugenics and Nazis Alarms Jewish Leaders

President Trump has alarmed Jewish leaders by appearing to endorse 'racehorse theory' — used by eugenicists and Nazis last century.
by Seema Mehta via Los Angeles Times on October 5, 2020
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The Racist Roots of the Dog Whistle

Here’s how we came to label the coded language.
by Adam R. Shapiro via Made By History on August 21, 2020

The Stench of Colonialism Mars These Bird Names. They Must Be Changed.

Having a species named after you is an honor. Not everyone deserves it.
by Gabriel Foley, Jordan Rutter via Washington Post on August 4, 2020
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Why It's Right That the Theodore Roosevelt Statue Comes Down

Like the museum behind it, the monument was designed in large part to train white people in a fundamentally racist way of seeing.
by Nick Mirzoeff via Hyperallergic on June 30, 2020
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On Liberating the History of Black Hair

Emma Dabiri deconstructs colonial ideas of Blackness.
by Emma Dabiri via Literary Hub on June 23, 2020

The American Nightmare

To be black and conscious of anti-black racism is to stare into the mirror of your own extinction.
by Ibram X. Kendi via The Atlantic on June 1, 2020

Eugenics and the White Moderate

Reflections on the COVID crisis from Reconstruction.
by William Horne via U.S. Intellectual History Blog on May 25, 2020

The Defender of Differences

Three new books consider the life, and impact, of Franz Boas, the "father of American cultural anthropology."
by Kwame Anthony Appiah via New York Review of Books on May 14, 2020

How Racism Is Shaping the Coronavirus Pandemic

For hundreds of years, false theories of “innate difference and deficit in black bodies” have shaped American responses to disease.
by Evelynn M. Hammonds, Isaac Chotiner via The New Yorker on May 7, 2020

Indian Removal

One of the world's first mass deportations, bureaucratically managed and large-scale, took place on American soil.
by Claudio Saunt via Aeon on April 23, 2020

Another Time a President Used the “Emergency” Excuse to Restrict Immigration

It was 1921, and it changed the character of the United States for decades.
by Joshua Zeitz via Politico Magazine on April 22, 2020
Trump speech script with "Corona" crossed out and changed to "Chinese" Virus.
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Stop Calling Covid-19 a Foreign Virus

Medical xenophobia has dangerous ramifications.
by Mark A. Goldberg via Made By History on March 26, 2020

Why You Should Stop Joking That Black People Are Immune to Coronavirus

There’s a fatal history behind the claim that African Americans are more resistant to diseases like Covid-19 or yellow fever.
by Brentin Mock via CityLab on March 14, 2020
Abortion advertisement in the National Police Gazette, 1847.

“Female Monthly Pills” and the Coded Language of Abortion Before Roe

Our future might look much like our past, with pills as a major part of abortion access—and an obsessive target for abortion opponents.
by Melissa Gira Grant via The New Republic on January 22, 2020

UVA and the History of Race: Eugenics, the Racial Integrity Act, Health Disparities

Reflections on the long career of race science at Mr. Jefferson's university.
by P. Preston Reynolds via UVA Today on January 9, 2020

The Life and Times of Franz Boas

The founder of cultural anthropology, Franz Boas challenged the reigning notions of race and culture.
by Matthew Wills via JSTOR Daily on December 1, 2019
Protester at an "America First" rally.

The Great-Granddaddy of White Nationalism

Thomas Dixon’s racist discourse lurks in American politics and society even today.
by Diane Roberts via Southern Cultures on September 18, 2019

American Immigration: A Century of Racism

On Daniel Okrent's "The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics, and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America."
by Sarah Churchwell via New York Review of Books on September 12, 2019
Broadside for debate between W.E.B. DuBois and Lothrop Stoddard.

When W.E.B. Du Bois Made a Laughing Stock of a White Supremacist

Why the Jim Crow-era debate between the African-American leader and a ridiculous, Nazi-loving racist isn’t as famous as Lincoln-Douglas.
by Ian Frazier via The New Yorker on August 19, 2019
Immigrant women at Ellis Island.

A Journalist on How Anti-Immigrant Fervor Built in the Early Twentieth Century

A century ago, the invocation of science was key to making Americans believe that newcomers were inferior.
by Daniel Okrent, Isaac Chotiner via The New Yorker on May 16, 2019

When Good Scientists Go Bad

Science doesn’t make you magically objective, and it’s not separate from the rest of human experience.
by Maki Naro, Matthew Francis via The Nib on May 15, 2019
Hillary Clinton speaking about early childhood development.

The Mismeasure of Minds

25 years later, The Bell Curve’s analysis of race and intelligence refuses to die.
by Michael E. Staub via Boston Review on May 8, 2019

Creationism, Noah’s Flood, and Race

For centuries, literalist interpretations of the Book of Genesis have fueled scientific racism and white supremacy.
by Paul Braterman via 3 Quarks Daily on March 25, 2019

White Nationalism’s Deep American Roots

A long-overdue excavation of the book that Hitler called his “bible,” and the man who wrote it.
by Adam Serwer via The Atlantic on March 14, 2019

The “Miscegenation” Troll

The term “miscegenation” was coined in an 1864 pamphlet by an anonymous author. It turned out to be an anti-abolition hoax.
by Mark Sussman via JSTOR Daily on February 20, 2019

The Electoral Politics of "Migrant Caravans"

To alleviate voters' fears during the Civil War, Northern governors refused to open their states to formerly enslaved refugees.
by Amy Murrell Taylor via Muster on December 18, 2018

How Yellow Fever Turned New Orleans Into The 'City Of The Dead'

Some years the virus would wipe out a tenth of the population, earning New Orleans the nickname "Necropolis."
by Leah Donnella via NPR on October 31, 2018
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