Institutional Racism
- The Report on Race That Shook America (The Atlantic)
- “Middle Class” is a White Racial Construct (African American Intellectual History Society)
- Separating Migrant Families Is Barbaric. It’s Also What the U.S. Has Been Doing to People of Color for Hundreds of Years. (The Intercept)
- The History of Redlining (ThoughtCo)
- How White Nationalists Hide in Academia (Alternet)
- I've studied the history of Confederate memorials. Here's what to do about them. (Vox)
- What is Jim Crow? (ThoughtCo)
- The Kerner Commission: The Report That Shook America (The Atlantic)
- Racism in the English Language (Robert Moore)
White Privilege
Slavery
- The power of a song in a strange land (The Conversation)
- 'The Slaves Dread New Year's Day the Worst': The Grim History of January 1 (Time)
- What everyone should know about Reconstruction 150 years after the 15th Amendment’s ratification (The Conversation)
- Slavery: What They Didn't Teach in My High School (Real Clear Politics)
- Without Slavery, Would The U.S. Be The Leading Economic Power? (NPR)
- The Last Slave Ship Survivor Gave an Interview in the 1930s (History)
- A Brief History of Juneteenth (Time)
- Making Sense of the Violence in Charlottesville (The Atlantic)
- American slavery: Separating fact from myth (The Conversation)
- My Family's Slave (The Atlantic)
- Blacks Were Enslaved Well into the 1960s (Vice)
- Race, Freedom, and Extermination in America and the Atlantic World (African American Intellectual History Society)
- My Great-Grandfather, the Nigerian Slave-Trader (The New Yorker)
Indentured Servitude
Genocide
- The Real Truth About Lynching in America (Thy Black Man)
- Bigotry stopped Americans from intervening before the Holocaust. Not much has changed (Los Angeles Times)
- When Mass Murder Is An Intimate Affair (Smithsonian)
- Why Did It Take So Long to Expose Hans Asperger's Nazi Ties? (The Atlantic)
- Famed Doctor Hans Asperger Helped with Nazi Child Euthanasia (Live Science)
Civil Rights
- Unseen photographs of civil rights conflict in Birmingham, Alabama, 1963 (The Guardian)
- How the Black Panthers Made Breakfast a Social Justice Issue (Extra Crispy)
- Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'Letter From Birmingham Jail' (The Atlantic)
African Americans and Black Americans
- The History of Modern Mass Incarceration of African Americans (Time)
- Remembering the First African-American Teacher in San Bernardino County: Dorothy Ella Inghram, SBVC Class of ‘32 (Medium)
- Last Hired, First Fired: How the Great Depression Affected African Americans (History)
- Black Wall Street: The African American Haven That Burned and Then Rose From the Ashes (The Ringer)
- The Radical History of the Headwrap (Timeline)
- The Complicated History of African Americans in the Military (Time)
- For centuries the West has found it useful to compare black people to monkeys (Quartz)
- This white reporter from Pittsburgh dressed like a black man for 30 days to expose Southern racism (Timeline)
- If you truly knew what the N-word meant to our ancestors, you’d NEVER use it (The Undefeated)
- That Time White People Burned and Pillaged a Black Community on Election Day (Vice)
- How white Americans used lynchings to terrorize and control black people (The Guardian)
Asian Americans
- The Nail Diaspora: How Manicures Transformed the Vietnamese Immigrant Experience in America (Daily Beast)
- I Know What Incarceration Does to Families. It Happened to Mine. (The New York Times)
- When California rounded up Japanese Americans for internment camps, Monterey emerged as center of resistance (Los Angeles Times)
Hispanic Americans and Latinx Americans
- Cholos Are As American As Apple Pie (Daily Chela)
Native Americans
- Thanksgiving: The National Day of Mourning (Paper Mag)
- A 1970 Law Led to the Mass Sterilization of Native American Women. That History Still Matters (Time)
- On Indigenous Peoples Day, recalling forced sterilizations of Native American women (Minnesota Post)
- Water’s natural rhythms nourished our area’s native culture. Then came the Ballard Locks. (The Seattle Times)
White Ethnic Americans
- Whose Time is it? Whites’ Time (Context, ASA)
- The shameful treatment of Italian Immigrants during WWII show America’s propensity for xenophobic hysteria (Timeline)
- The Phenomenal Impact of Race on Poor and Working-Class Whites. (Manhood, Race, and Culture)
Immigration Experiences
- A history of American anti-immigrant bias, starting with Benjamin Franklin’s hatred of the Germans (Quartz)
- Has Citizenship Been A Standard Census Question? (NPR)
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From Mooktie to Juan: The Eugenic Origins of the “Defective Immigrant” (Nursing Clio)
Eugenics
- Unwanted Sterilization and Eugenics Programs in the United States (Independent Lens, PBS)