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The Art of Domination: On Decolonizing the Curriculum

May 16, 2017May 18, 2017 Jordanna Matlon education, education reform, racism, teaching

Those professors among us who teach from the perspective of the oppressed are often tasked with un-teaching what our students

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How Public Artists Are Exploring the History of Segregation in Baltimore

May 16, 2017May 19, 2017 Joshua Clark Davis art, Baltimore, Jim Crow

How should America publicly acknowledge its history of legal segregation? For many people, the intricate system that required whites and blacks

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Theorizing Race in the Americas: An Interview with Juliet Hooker

May 5, 2017May 8, 2017 Francisco Herrera Frederick Douglass, Latin America, racism, W.E.B. Du Bois

In today’s post, Francisco Herrera, an MA student in Latin American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, interviews

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Historical Amnesia and the Burden of the Euro-American Past in the Age of Trump

April 29, 2017May 2, 2017 Westenley Alcenat Donald Trump, racism, racist ideas, Trumpism

In the last 100 days since he began his presidency, President Trump’s administration has unleashed a powerful nativist movement anchored

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Women Picturing Revolution: An Interview with Lesly Deschler-Canossi and Zoraida Lopez-Diago

April 21, 2017April 24, 2017 L. Jonathan Collier Black women, Public History, racism

This month I interviewed Lesly Deschler Canossi and Zoraida Lopez-Diago about their event Women Picturing Revolution: Focus on Africa and

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