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Oct 29, 2019

“The Names of the Enslaved People who Built the University of North Carolina”

“The joint efforts of researchers, archivists, historians, students, and administrators has resulted in the identification of more than 100 enslaved people who built and labored at the University…

Jess Brooks in On Race — isms

Sep 29, 2019

“Phoenicia: an imaginary friend to nations in need of ancestors”

“In 1919… These ‘Lebanists’ emphasised the natural symbiosis between the mountain and the coast: for them, the proposed new country was already a coherent whole; it just needed a distinctive history to justify its…

Jess Brooks in On Race — isms

Aug 25, 2019

“How a Nearly Successful Slave Revolt Was Intentionally Lost to History”

“Official accounts at the time spun the fiction that the revolt was nearly a band of “‘brigands’ out to pillage and plunder,” writes Wendell Hassan Marsh for The Root. But this was the story of the victors…

Jess Brooks in On Race — isms

Aug 5, 2019

“In Winston Churchill, Hollywood rewards a mass murderer”

“During World War II, Churchill declared himself in favor of “terror bombing.” He wrote that he wanted “absolutely devastating, exterminating attacks by very heavy bombers.” Horrors such as the firebombing of Dresden were the…

Jess Brooks in On Race — isms

Apr 12, 2019

“What happened to Chicago’s Japanese neighborhood?”

“The answer to Irene’s question is directly tied to a Chicago immigrant experience like no other. Japanese-Americans didn’t end up in Chicago of their own accord: The U.S. government forcibly resettled 20,000 of them to the city from World…

Jess Brooks in On Race — isms

Feb 4, 2019

“It wasn’t just Greece: Archaeologists find early democratic societies in the Americas”

“Tlaxcallan is one of several premodern societies around the world that archaeologists believe were organized collectively, where rulers shared power and commoners had a say in the…

Jess Brooks in On Race — isms

Jan 27, 2019

“Thomas Pynchon Shows Us How White Writers Can Avoid Appropriation”

“You learn about the way the Germans tortured the Hereros, the way they killed them — and you learn it from the point of view of a German character, Kurt Mondaugen. This deliberate choice is part of Pynchon’s…

Jess Brooks in On Race — isms

Jan 13, 2019

“After 200 years without land title, Nova Scotia black communities offered hope”

“The problem can be traced back two centuries, when the government gave plots of land to Black Loyalists for their support during the American Revolutionary War and to Black Refugees, former…

Jess Brooks in On Race — isms

Dec 9, 2018

“A weekend with the United Order of Tents, a semi-covert organization of black women”

“It is an organization made up of dozens of chapters all over the South and Northeast, with hundreds of members currently. It was founded on the ideals of freedom, independence, and…

Jess Brooks in On Race — isms

Oct 3, 2018

“Civil Warfare in the Streets”

“Missouri’s slaveholding class represented exactly what they had detested in the old country, exactly what they had wanted to escape: a swaggering clique of landed oligarchs. By contrast, the Germans prided themselves on being, as an Anzeiger editorial rather smugly put it…