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Revisiting When Affirmative Action Was White, nearly two decades on.
Historian Gerald Horne has developed a grand theory of U.S. history as a series of devastating backlashes to progress—right down to the present day.
In her new book, historian Kelly Lytle Hernández makes the case for why U.S. history only makes sense when told as a binational story.
Robin D. G. Kelley published his pathbreaking history of the Black radical imagination in 2002. Where are we two decades later?
Though a means of escaping and undermining racial injustice, the practice comes with own set of costs and sacrifices.
King could not accomplish what philosophers and theologians also failed to—distinguishing moral from immoral law in a polarized society.
Laws controlling what schools teach about race and gender show an awareness that classrooms are sites of nation-building. During the Cold War, El Paso public schools knew this too when they taught the children of former Nazis how to be white Americans.
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