Race Inquiry Digest (July 25) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – How Should Democrats Counter Racist Politics? By making it the central moral issue of their campaigns. By Mary Harris / Slate Podcast
Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Racism Comes Out of the Closet. The dog whistle days are apparently over. By Paul Krugman / NYT
Trump’s Tweets Prove That He Is a Raging Racist. By Charles Blow / NYT
Jon Meacham: Trump Now Tied For ‘Most Racist President In American History.’ By Ed Mazza / HuffPost
‘The agenda of white nationalists’: AOC, other congresswomen respond to Trump’s attacks. By Dareh Gregorian and Adam Edelman / NBC News
READ: Here’s The Resolution Condemning Trump’s Racist Comments About Congresswomen. By Brian Naylor / NPR
Am I an American? By Ibram X. Kendi / The Atlantic
Against Multiracial Authoritarianism. By Dan Berger / AAIHS
How to Close Heirs’ Property Loopholes. What to consider to avoid losing land that has been passed down through generations without a will and is shared among heirs. By Lizzie Presser / ProPublica
The Postcolonial Case for Rethinking Borders. By Tendayi Achiume / Dissent
William Barr’s decision in Eric Garner’s case is a disgrace. By Joey Jackson / CNN
North Carolina Gerrymandering Trial Could Serve As Blueprint For Other States. By Jeff Tiberii / NPR
Democrats’ not so secret weapon to fix America’s insanely rigged election map. By Danielle McLean / ThinkProgress
New York is second state to ban discrimination based on natural hairstyles. By Janelle Griffith / NBC News
He Emerged From Prison a Potent Symbol of H.I.V. Criminalization. By Emily S. Rueb / NYT
“White Identity Politics” and white backlash: How we wound up with a racist in the White House. By Chauncey DeVega / Salon
Race Inquiry Digest (July 22) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – Trump revives the idea of a ‘white man’s country’, America’s original sin. By Nell Painter / The Guardian
It Can Happen Here: The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s decision to speak out against Holocaust analogies is a moral threat. By Timothy Snyder / Slate
They Called Us Enemy By George Takei (A Review)
Why No One Is Discussing the Rise in Africans Migrants Piled at U.S.-Mexico Border. By David Love / AtlBlackStar
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee Honors KKK Grand Wizard With Proclamation. By Andy Campbell / Huff Post
Trump tells Ocasio-Cortez and other female progressives to ‘go back’ to ‘original’ countries. By Martin Pengelly / The Guardian
Buttigieg Proposes Broad Plan To Counter Racial Inequality. By Rachel Martin and Josh Axelrod / NPR
Is Hawaii’s Racial Harmony a Myth? By Moises Velasquez-Manoff / NYT
How White Nationalists See What They Want to See in DNA Tests. By Heather Murphy / NYT
McConnell’s boyhood town shows the lasting impacts of slavery. By Sandy Mazza / USA Today
The forgotten history of segregated swimming pools and amusement parks. By Victoria W. Walcott / The Conversation
