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Andrea Pitzer

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‘Some Suburb of Hell’: America’s New Concentration Camp System

The longer a camp system stays open, the more likely it is that vital things will go wrong.

by Andrea Pitzer via New York Review of Books on June 21, 2019
America’s Dangerously Shallow Understanding of the Holocaust

It’s treated as an all-purpose symbol of evil, not a series of historical events to be reckoned with.

by Andrea Pitzer via Vox on May 4, 2017
The Bitter History of Law and Order in America

It has stifled suffrage, blamed immigrants for chaos, and suppressed civil rights. It's also how Donald Trump views the entire world.

by Andrea Pitzer via Longreads on April 6, 2017
Trump Revives a Shameful Tradition: Targeting a Minority Group with Crime Reports

The president's executive orders and inflammatory rhetoric follow a predictable path.

by Andrea Pitzer via Longreads on February 8, 2017

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Why Historical Analogy Matters

If the idea of historical incommensurability is right, then analogical reasoning in history becomes an impossibility.

by Peter E. Gordon via New York Review of Books on January 7, 2020

Immigration Enforcement and the U.S.-Mexico Border

A microsyllabus on the history of the U.S.-Mexico border, refugees, and deportation.

by Adam Goodman, Maddalena Marinari, Evan Tarapata, María Cristina García via The Abusable Past on September 11, 2019

A Crime by Any Name

The Trump administration’s commitment to deterring immigration through cruelty has made horrifying conditions in there inevitable.

by Adam Serwer via The Atlantic on July 3, 2019

Why It’s Fair to Compare the Detention of Migrants to Concentration Camps

Not every concentration camp is Auschwitz. The term is much older.

by Jonathan M. Katz via Slate on June 20, 2018

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