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We’ve been here: Selections from 6+ years of anti-racist internet reading

Recognizing and responding to racism is a journey. If you find yourself in a dramatically different place from where you were in 2014, or…
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“ICE Came for a Tennessee Town’s Immigrants. The Town Fought Back.”

“the day Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents raided the Southeastern Provision plant outside the city and sent dozens of workers to…
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Jess Brooks

“White People Are Noticing Something New: Their Own Whiteness”

“So long as we aren’t hanging out with white nationalists, marrying into a family of color or chuckling over jokes about our dancing, we…
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“How Faculty of Color Hurt Their Careers Helping Universities with Diversity”

“The failure of many top schools to make significant progress on diversity can mean that institutions are relying too heavily on a tiny…
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Jess Brooks

“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…
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Jess Brooks

“What The Kanye Controversy Can Teach Us About Black Voters”

“What White and and three other researchers found in a recent study is that social pressure from other black people is how this Democratic…
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Jess Brooks

“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…
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Jess Brooks

“How to not photograph Nigerian women… again”

“Despite the stated goals of this project — to recapture on film the dignity of these young women — in the end what we get are 83…
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Jess Brooks
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