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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

Here Is a Human Being

The Spotify and Ancestry partnership proposes to entertain users based on the narrowest possible conception of who they are.
by Cam Scott via Popula on September 27, 2018

White Nationalists Held a Race Rally in Charlottesville. The Location Was No Coincidence.

The region was at the epicenter of eugenic policy-making in the first half of the 20th century.
by Frederick Coye Heard via Scalawag on August 13, 2018

The White Man, Unburdened

How Charles Murray stopped worrying and learned to love racism.
by Stuart Schrader, Quinn Slobodian via The Baffler on July 4, 2018

From Mooktie to Juan: The Eugenic Origins of the 'Defective Immigrant'

How eugenics shaped America's immigration policy.
by Aparna Nair via Nursing Clio on June 28, 2018

How Birth Certificates Are Being Weaponized Against Trans People

A century ago, these documents were used to reinforce segregation. Today, they’re being used to impose binary identities on transgender people.
by Garrett Epps via The Atlantic on June 8, 2018

Black Subjectivity and the Origins of American Gynecology

A review of Deirdre Cooper Owens' "Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology."
by Rachel Zellars via Black Perspectives on May 31, 2018

How American Racism Influenced Hitler

Scholars are mapping the international precursors of Nazism.
by Alex Ross via The New Yorker on April 25, 2018

White Supremacy Is the Achilles Heel of American Democracy

Even in a high-tech era, fears about minority political agency are the most reliable way to destabilize the U.S. political system.
by Vann R. Newkirk II via The Atlantic on April 17, 2018

How The Sacrifices of Black Civil War Troops Advanced Medicine

A new museum exhibit in Philadelphia showcases the first public health record of African Americans.
by Ilene Raymond Rush via Philly.com on March 21, 2018

Modern Mindfulness is Rooted in a Racist History

Before Americans turned to Buddhism for life hacks, they treated it like a dangerous cult.
by Ryan Anningson via Quartz on March 15, 2018
Book cover of "What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia."

Appalachia Isn’t Trump Country

A region that outsiders love to imagine but can’t seem to understand.
by Elizabeth Catte, Regan Penaluna via Guernica on March 7, 2018

From the ‘Pocahontas Exception’ to a ‘Historical Wrong'

The hidden cost of formal recognition for American Indian tribes.
by Arica L. Coleman via TIME on February 9, 2018
Delegation of African officials confront archival boxes and human skulls.

The Troubling Origins of the Skeletons in a New York Museum

The effort to repatriate the remains of thousands of Herero people slaughtered by German colonists at the turn of the century.
by Daniel A. Gross via The New Yorker on January 24, 2018
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Trump’s Views on Immigration Aren’t as Bad as Those in The 1920s. They’re Worse.

The designers of the quota system at least tried to hide their racism.
by David C. Atkinson via Made By History on January 14, 2018

The US Medical System is Still Haunted by Slavery

Medicine’s dark history helps explain why black mothers are dying at alarming rates.
by Ranjani Chakraborty via Vox on December 7, 2017
Protestor outside the Supreme Court, with a Bible and a sign denouncing bigotry.
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Discriminating in the Name of Religion? Segregationists and Slaveholders Did It, Too.

If religious freedom trumps equality under the law, it provides a “cover” that actually encourages discrimination.
by Tisa Wenger via Made By History on December 5, 2017
Indian bicycle troops at the battle of the Somme in 1916.

How Colonial Violence Came Home: The Ugly Truth of the First World War

We remember WWI as an unexpected catastrophe. But for the millions living under imperialist rule, terror and degradation were nothing new.
by Pankaj Mishra via The Guardian on November 10, 2017

The Mythical Whiteness of Trump Country

"Hillbilly Elegy" has been used to explain the 2016 election, but its logic is rooted in a dangerous myth about race in Appalachia.
by Elizabeth Catte via Boston Review on November 7, 2017
Virginia Woolf and others dressed in blackface and Ethiopian clothing.

The Time Virginia Woolf Wore Blackface

Why did future members of the modernist literary movement darken their skin, speak fake Swahili, and board a British battleship?
by Kevin Young via The New Yorker on October 27, 2017

Nature's Disastrous ‘Whitewashing’ Editorial

Science's ethos of self-correction should apply to how it thinks about its own history, too.
by Ross Andersen via The Atlantic on September 6, 2017

More Than a Statue: Rethinking J. Marion Sims’ Legacy

The "father of U.S. gynecology" is usually depicted as either a monstrous butcher or a benevolent healer. It's not that simple.
by Deirdre Cooper Owens via Rewire on August 24, 2017

The Nazis Were Obsessed With Magic

What can their fascination with the supernatural teach us about life in our own post-truth times?
by Rebecca Onion, Peter Staudenmaier via Slate on August 24, 2017

What the Nazis Learned from America

Rigid racial codes in the early 20th century gained the admiration not only of many American elites, but also of Nazi Germany.
by Jessica Blatt via Public Books on July 6, 2017
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The Civil Rights Act was a Victory Against Racism. But Racists Also Won.

The bill unleashed a poisonous idea: that America had defeated racism.
by Ibram X. Kendi via Made By History on July 2, 2017

The History of Outlawing Abortion in America

Abortion was first criminalized in the mid 1900s amidst concerns that too many white women were ending their pregnancies.
by Nicola Beisel, Tamara Kay, Livia Gershon via JSTOR Daily on March 10, 2017

Hitler's American Dream

The dictator modeled his racial campaign after another conquest of land and people-America's Manifest Destiny.
by Timothy Snyder via Slate on March 8, 2017

Making America White 200 Years Ago

Brandon Byrd examines resistance to the American Colonization Society's attempts to remove free blacks from the US.
by Brandon R. Byrd via Public Books on February 17, 2017
The Caucasus Mountains, a mountain system that runs through several countries.

Why Do We Keep Using the Word “Caucasian”?

When a term signifies something that does not exist, we need to examine our use of it.
by Yolanda Moses via Sapiens on February 1, 2017

Is Racism a Disease?

Is a psychological diagnosis a useful way to view racism-or does it merely absolve the racist of blame?
by Rebecca Onion via Slate on November 17, 2016
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