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Jess Brooks in On Race — isms

Oct 22, 2019

“When Southern Newspapers Justified Lynching”

“Historians have paid scant attention to the role that the white Southern press played in the racial terrorism of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, which saw thousands of African-Americans hanged, burned, drowned or beaten to death by white…

Jess Brooks in On Race — isms

Aug 29, 2019

“White Settlers Buried the Truth About the Midwest’s Mysterious Mound Cities”

“Despite the preponderance of archaeological evidence that these mound complexes were the work of sophisticated Native American civilizations, this rich history was obscured by the Myth of the…

Jess Brooks in On Race — isms

May 10, 2019

“In ‘The Price for Their Pound of Flesh,’ black bodies matter”

“Berry pays systematic attention to the ways in which the enslaved sought to counteract the ruthless economic exploitation of their bodies and labor. Focusing closely on how slaves were valued from conception to their…

Jess Brooks in On Race — isms

Jul 5, 2018

“How Hollywood Whitewashed the Old West”

“Cowboy culture refers to a style of ranching introduced in North America by Spanish colonists in the 16th century — a time when most ranch owners were Spanish and many ranch hands were Native. None of the first cowboys were (non-Hispanic) white. And while…

Jess Brooks in On Race — isms

Jan 7, 2018

“The real secret to Asian American success was not education”

“Asian Americans have been part of the United States for most of its history. The first major wave of immigrants came in the 1800s, when Chinese laborers flocked to California to help build railroads. Their presence soon…

Jess Brooks in On Race — isms

Sep 29, 2017

“SKIN IN THE GAME: HOW ANTISEMITISM ANIMATES WHITE NATIONALISM”

“Within social and economic justice movements committed to equality, we have not yet collectively come to terms with the centrality of antisemitism to White nationalist ideology, and until we do we will fail to…

Jess Brooks in On Race — isms

Jan 16, 2017

“Exactly How ‘Black’ Is Black America?”

“for our African-American male guests, there has been still another astonishing fact revealed about their paternal ancestry — their father’s father’s father’s line — through their y-DNA: A whopping 35 percent of all African-American men descend from a white…

Jess Brooks in On Race — isms

Dec 5, 2016

“The Huddled Masses And The Myth Of America”

““Our founding documents were all published in German to accommodate the German-speaking populations. For most of the 19th century, instruction in public schools across the country — from Pennsylvania to Texas to Wisconsin — occurred entirely in…

Jess Brooks in On Race — isms

Aug 19, 2016

“A Future History of the United States”

“From the colonial period to the postbellum, the authors Ned and Constance Sublette cast slavery, and the slave-breeding industry, as the center of American history… Slavery, in simplest terms, was unpaid labor. Slaves were shipped from Africa to the American…

Jess Brooks in On Race — isms

Jun 2, 2016

“On slavery, 150 years later”

“I find that slavery is more of a conversation killer, than a conversation starter. My family’s history is not on the list of topics I take with me to cocktail parties or social gatherings. Well, at least not my father’s family. It’s perfectly acceptable for me to talk about…