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End of the American Dream? The Dark History of 'America First'

When he promised to put America first in his inaugural speech, Donald Trump drew on a slogan with a long and sinister history.
by Sarah Churchwell via The Guardian on April 21, 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
KKK parade in Washington DC, 1926.

Voices in Time: The KKK Makes Its Case in Mass Media

The author of "The Second Coming of the KKK" shows an early twentieth-century attempt to go mainstream.
by Linda Gordon via Lapham’s Quarterly on April 12, 2018
White women demonstrators hold signs against school desegregation.

'Segregation's Constant Gardeners': How White Women Kept Jim Crow Alive

Meet the good white mothers, PTA members, and newspaper columnists who were also committed white supremacists.
by Rebecca Stoner via Pacific Standard on April 12, 2018

The Ambivalence of Appropriation

A new book by Eric Lott frames white appropriation of blackness as containing the possibility of greater racial solidarity.
by Noah Hansen via Public Books on March 29, 2018

Baldwin’s Lonely Country

After MLK's assassination, James Baldwin attempted to reconcile the divide between the civil rights movement and Black Power.
by Ed Pavlic via Boston Review on March 29, 2018

Sam Harris, Charles Murray, and the Allure of Race Science

This is not "forbidden knowledge." It is America’s most ancient justification for bigotry and racial inequality.
by Ezra Klein via Vox on March 27, 2018

How Charles Koch Is Helping Neo-Confederates Teach College Students

The Koch Foundation is often praised for its higher-ed funding, but the money is going to some radical professors.
by Alex Kotch via The Nation on March 21, 2018

Still a Long Time Coming

Selma and the unfulfilled promise of civil rights.
by Elias Rodriques via The Nation on March 21, 2018
Illustration of enslaved persons singing and dancing

Teaching White Supremacy: U.S. History Textbooks and the Influence of Historians

The assumptions of white priority and white domination suffuse every chapter and every theme of the thousands of textbooks that have blanketed the schools of our country.
by Donald Yacovone via Medium on March 6, 2018
Mississippi Klan members wearing hoods.

The Media and the Ku Klux Klan: A Debate That Began in the 1920s

The author of "Ku Klux Kulture" breaks down the ‘mutually beneficial’ relationship between the Klan and the media.
by Felix Harcourt, Lois Beckett, Jesse Brenneman via The Guardian on March 5, 2018

The Whitewashing of King's Assassination

The death of Martin Luther King Jr. wasn’t a galvanizing event, but the premature end of a movement that had only just begun.
by Vann R. Newkirk II via The Atlantic on March 1, 2018

This, Our Second Nadir

Why the Trump Era demands a better understanding of how racism got us into this mess.
by N. D. B. Connolly via Boston Review on February 21, 2018

The Notorious Book that Ties the Right to the Far Right

The enduring popularity of "The Camp of the Saints" sheds light on nativists' historical opposition to immigration.
by Sarah Jones via The New Republic on February 2, 2018
Political Cartoon of Uncle Sam bringing shovels to McKinley who has one foot in the U.S. and the other in Panama, as American flags dot the globe.

The Large Policy

How the Spanish-American War laid the groundwork for American empire.
by Brenda Wineapple via The Nation on January 31, 2018
Painting of a slave auction.

Teaching Hard History

A new study suggests that high school students lack a basic knowledge of the role slavery played in shaping the United States.
via Southern Poverty Law Center on January 31, 2018

How Do We Explain This National Tragedy? This Trump?

On 400 years of tribalism, genocide, expulsion, and imprisonment.
by T. J. Stiles via Literary Hub on January 31, 2018

From Yosemite to Bears Ears, Erasing Native Americans From U.S. National Parks

150 years after Yosemite opened to the public, the park's indigenous inhabitants are still struggling for recognition.
by Hunter Oatman-Stanford via Collectors Weekly on January 26, 2018
Woman in a KKK hood holding a baby.

No, Talking About Women's Role in White Supremacy is NOT Blaming Women

Women’s role in the 1920s KKK can teach us about racism today.
by Laura Smith via Timeline on January 23, 2018
Drawing of a black man holding a shovel (out of frame).

Arlington Is More Than a Cemetery

Arlington House’s transformations mirror our own.
by Jackie Roche via The Nib on January 22, 2018

Nazi Punks F**k Off

An oral history of how Black Flag, Bad Brains, and other hardcore acts reclaimed punk from white supremacists.
by Steve Knopper via GQ on January 16, 2018

Five Decades of White Backlash

President Trump is the embodiment of over 50 years of resistance to the policies Martin Luther King Jr. fought to enact.
by Vann R. Newkirk II via The Atlantic on January 15, 2018
High school student in Shreveport.

Taking a Knee and Taking Down a Monument

The struggle over Shreveport's Confederate monument converges with talk about a national anthem protest by high-schoolers.
by Brent McDonald via New York Times Op-Docs on January 9, 2018

Lessons from the Election of 1968

Protests, populism, and progressivism all clashed in a battle royal. But what really drives election results?
by Louis Menand via The New Yorker on January 8, 2018
Map of lynchings in Virginia

Racial Terror: Lynching in Virginia

An ongoing research project telling the stories of all the known lynching victims who were killed in Virginia between 1866 and 1932.
by Gianluca de Fazio via James Madison University on January 1, 2018
KKK march in Washington in 1925.

The Second Klan

Linda Gordon’s new book captures how white supremacy has long been part of our political mainstream.
by Kevin M. Kruse via The Nation on December 13, 2017
KKK members at a night rally in Chicago ca. 1920

Ku Klux Klambakes

What does the Klan of the 1920s have to teach us about the resurgence of organized bigotry in the Trump era?
by Adam Hochschild via New York Review of Books 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

The Nationalist's Delusion

Trumpism emerged from a haze of delusion, denial, pride, and cruelty—not as a historical anomaly, but as a profoundly American phenomenon.
by Adam Serwer via The Atlantic on November 20, 2017
Stokely Carmichael talking to members of the press at the House Rules Committee (1966).

How to Fight White Backlash

What three seminal books from 1967 can teach us about fighting racism in the Trump era.
by Robert Greene II via Dissent on November 10, 2017
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