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A Bad Check for Black America
Nixon’s embrace of “black capitalism” was a canny move that ultimately decimated the black community and turned the wealth gap into a wealth chasm.
Wall Street Has Been Unscathed by MeToo. Until Now.
Sara Tirschwell alleges her boss pressured her into sex. He denies it. Now discovery is underway on her $30 million lawsuit.
Joe Feagin
Wall Street Has Been Unscathed by MeToo. Until Now.
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Trump’s Free-Speech Executive Order and the Right’s Fixation on Campus Politics
The right’s victimization narrative has changed little since the nineteen-fifties, even as the conservative movement has come to wield an extraordinary amount of power in American politics and life.
Imposed Identities: Perils of Racial-Ethnic Identifiability -
Tweet In Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?, Beverly Tatum describes racial identity development as an ongoing, continuous process comparable to climbing a spiral staircase. Building on the theory of …
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Why UNC’s 'Silent Sam' Statue Was Focus Point of Protest
Demonstrators knocked down the statue Monday night
The Surprising Reason Why So Many Civil War Memorials Look Almost Exactly the Same
Find out in this clip from '10 That Changed America'
Some White Southerners Didn’t Want to Secede During the Civil War—Or Build Confederate Monuments After
The South’s Confederate statues obscured the region’s political diversity, and still do
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"The South’s Confederate statues obscured the region’s political diversity, and still do"
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What Historians of Fascism Think About the Suspected New Zealand Shooter's Declaration of Extremism
"If we don’t understand that racism was embedded in fascism from the start, we are getting an incomplete picture."
Joe Feagin
What historians of fascism think of the suspected New Zealand shooter's apparent declaration of being an "actual fascist"
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What to Know About the Origins of Fascism’s Brutal Ideology
A historian of fascism answers questions about the early history of one of the 20th century's cruelest ideas
A Legal and Moral Basis for Reparations
Unjust enrichment, and its counterpart, unjust impoverishment, give rise to the idea of restitution.
Doomed Jets Lacked 2 Safety Features That Boeing Sold as Extras
Airlines had to pay more for two optional upgrades that could warn pilots about sensor malfunctions. The company will now make one of the features standard.
Mediating Illegality: Federal, State, and Institutional Policies in the Educational Experiences of Undocumented College Students | Law & Social Inquiry
Mediating Illegality: Federal, State, and Institutional Policies in the Educational Experiences of Undocumented College Students - Laura E. Enriquez, Martha Morales Hernandez, Daniel Millán, Daisy Vazquez Vera
“Reclaiming Our Time”: Black Women, Resistance, and Rising Inequality: SWS Presidential Lecture
In this presidential address, I use the metaphor of “reclaiming my time” as a framework that highlights the ways black women are playing an essential role trans...
The New Dutch Disease Is White Nationalism
An upstart far-right party in the Netherlands threatens to entrench xenophobia in one of Europe’s most progressive countries.
Angela Davis Addresses the Whitewashing of Feminism and Islamophobia
"I want to argue for a feminist perspective that understands that we cannot simply reform institutions like prison and the police."
The real college crisis: Student debt drags down economy
The net impact is not only a drag in people's personal financial situation, but it’s also a drag on the economy as a whole.
25% of parents say they would pay college officials to get their children into a good school | YouGov
Most Americans (67%) say the education system is rigged in favor of wealthy students
Christchurch shooter's manifesto reveals an obsession with white supremacy over Muslims
The Australian mass murderer lamented the "apathetic and apolitical" nature of his country of birth, which he called an outpost of Europe.
Who gets to survive climate change?
In November, as wildfires ripped through California, Kim Kardashian hired a squad of private firefighters to protect her $50m estate in Calabasas. During the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Blackwater security guards defended the houses of...