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In the Time of Monsters

Watchmen is a sophisticated inquiry into the ethical implications of its own form—the flash and bang, the prurience and violence of comic books.
by Namwali Serpell via New York Review of Books on March 19, 2020

The Roots of Anti-Racist, Anti-Fascist Resistance in the US

Robin D.G. Kelley on the predecessors to Antifa.
by Robin D. G. Kelley via Literary Hub on March 6, 2020
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A Founder of American Religious Nationalism

On Rousas Rushdoony's political thought and lasting influence on the Christian right.
by Katherine Stewart via HNN on March 3, 2020
Statue of Hannah Duston frowning, pointing, and wielding an axe.

The White Heroine Who Legitimized Racial Aggression

White racial violence in America has never been a random collection of individual or unrelated crimes of passion against minorities.
by Gregory Rodriguez via Contra Mundum on February 29, 2020

Did Medgar Evers’ Killer Go Free Because of Jury Tampering?

Jerry Mitchell revisits a dark episode in the struggle for civil rights.
by Jerry Mitchell via Literary Hub on February 24, 2020
A man wearing a white shirt with a black "L," with people holding flags in the background

How Nazism’s Rise in Europe Spurred Anti-Semitic Movements in the US

On the growing tide of racial animosity in 1930s Los Angeles.
by Donna Rifkind via Literary Hub on February 7, 2020

Impossible Contradictions

Even Donald Trump’s most draconian and violent immigration policies are still circumscribed by the interests of capital.
by Brendan O'Connor via The Baffler on February 4, 2020

The Real Story of the 49ers

The reality of the early gold-rush prospectors was not nearly as benevolent as the mascot’s wide smile may suggest.
by Bruce Barcott via The Atlantic on February 2, 2020

Slavery, and American Racism, Were Born in Genocide

Martin Luther King Jr. recognized that Imperial expansion over stolen Indian land shaped and deepened the American Revolution’s relationship to slavery.
by Greg Grandin via The Nation on January 20, 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

By Bullet or Ballot: One of the Only Successful Coups in American History

David Zucchino on the white supremacist plot to take over Wilmington, North Carolina.
by David Zucchino via Literary Hub on January 9, 2020

White Supremacy in the Academy: The 1913 Meeting of the American Historical Association

The historical interpretations crafted by the men of the Dunning School might now be largely discredited and discarded. But their legacies remain.
by Bradley D. Proctor via The Activist History Review on December 6, 2019

The Original Southerners

American Indians, the Civil War, and Confederate memory.
by Malinda Maynor Lowery via Southern Cultures on November 27, 2019

An Unfinished Revolution

A new three-part PBS documentary explores the failure of Reconstruction and the Redemption of the South.
by James Oakes via New York Review of Books on November 21, 2019

Making Impeachment Matter

Democrats need to face up to their constitutional duty without fear.
by Alex Pareene via The New Republic on November 21, 2019
Crowd of people at the counting of Electoral College votes in the U.S. Congress.

The Electoral College’s Racist Origins

More than two centuries after it was designed to empower southern white voters, the system continues to do just that.
by Wilfred Codrington III via The Atlantic on November 17, 2019

The Legend of Big Ole

How one monument came to be at the center of Minnesota’s imagined white past.
by Rachel Boyle via Belt Magazine on November 14, 2019

Civility Is Overrated

The gravest danger to American democracy isn’t an excess of vitriol—it’s the false promise of civility.
by Adam Serwer via The Atlantic on November 12, 2019

The Greensboro Massacre at 40

Forty years after the Greensboro Massacre, a survivor talks about that day, and why organized workers are such a threat to the powerful.
by Rosalyn Pelles, Jordan T. Camp via Boston Review on November 1, 2019

Who Was Tank Kee?

He wanted to be an ally of the Chinese immigrant. By pretending to be one himself.
by Christopher Decou via Contingent on October 28, 2019
African-American cowboys in Bonham, Texas, circa 1913

The Real Texas

What is Texas? Should we even think about so large and diverse a place as having an essence that can be distilled?
by Annette Gordon-Reed via New York Review of Books on October 24, 2019
A rope used to lynch Raymond Byrd.

So You Want to Talk about Lynching? Understand This First.

If you are unwilling to do this work — and it is work — then leave that word alone.
by Michele Norris via Washington Post on October 23, 2019
Demonstrators at a Black Lives Matter rally.

Five Years Later, Do Black Lives Matter?

Five years since its inception, a look at what the Black Lives Matter movement accomplished and the important work it left unfinished.
by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor via Jacobin on October 9, 2019

Why is the Army Still Honoring Confederate Generals?

Confederate Statues aren't the only reminder of the Civil War - the US Army still has major bases named for Confederate soldiers.
by James Risen via The Intercept on October 6, 2019

The Ghosts of Elaine, Arkansas, 1919

In America’s bloody history of racial violence, the little-known Elaine Massacre may rank as the deadliest.
by Jerome B. Karabel via New York Review of Books on September 30, 2019

UVA and the History of Race: When the KKK flourished in Charlottesville

Charlottesville and the UVA were enthusiastic participants in the national resurgence of public and celebratory white supremacy.
by Ashley Schmidt, Kirt von Daacke via UVA Today on September 25, 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

Reflections on a Silent Soldier

After the television cameras went away, a North Carolina city debated the future of its toppled Confederate statue.
by Robin Kirk via The American Scholar on September 3, 2019
Illustration of white Quakers with enslaved Africans in the background.

Slavery in the Quaker World

Christian slavery and white supremacy.
by Katharine Gerbner via Friends Journal on September 1, 2019
Malcolm X

Reflections on Malcom X

What we can learn from him and his legacy.
by Nathan J. Robinson, Oren Nimni via Current Affairs on August 28, 2019
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