Race and Ethnicity In a Historical Context

Prejudice

• The Classic Muzafer Sherif Experiment

• What if ‘prejudice’ isn’t what causes racism? (Aeon)

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

• A Maryland school discriminated against blond-haired students 50 years ago (The Oregonian)

• White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack

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)

• Historian Shows That White Women Were Deeply in the Slave Economy (The Guardian)

• 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

• America’s History of Exploiting Immigrants Is Older Than the Country Itself (The Atlantic)

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)

• The L.A. Zoot Suit Riots of 1943 were a targeted attack on Mexican and nonwhite youths (Timeline)

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)
  
• 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)