History

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Rosewood

 

“Rosewood was a Black town in the American state of Florida that was burned to the ground in 1923 by Whites. The state of Florida says eight died: six Blacks, two Whites. Survivors say between 40 to 150 died, nearly all of them Black. Several eyewitnesses saw a mass grave of Blacks with maybe 27 bodies, but to date it has not been found.

 

No Whites were ever charged with a crime, ”

 

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

If you click through to the full article, make sure to read the last line.

 

People to this day still try to blame Black and Brown people for problems that are not caused by Black and Brown people.

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The 7 kinds of American racism in the 2010s

 

Left to right: David Duke (Jim Crow), Charles Murray (race realist), Amy Chua (colour-blind), Barack Obama (Islamophobic), Clarence Thomas (internalized), Antonin Scalia (institutional). Not shown: historical racism.”

 
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Isabel Wilkerson’s Sweeping ‘Warmth of Other Suns’

In “The Warmth of Other Suns,” Isabel Wilkerson documents the sweeping 55-year-long migration of black Americans from the South.

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

The awesome book documents the migration of African Americans from the South of the U.S. to the North and West of the U.S. once they had the freedom to move after slavery was abolished.

See on www.nytimes.com

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Case Study: History, Myth, and Public Schools

 

“The following is a review sheet with answers exactly as sent to the parents of 5th grade students by the social studies teacher at a school near where I live. My analysis and thoughts follow the three centered diamond icons. Be sure to see the last paragraph for my full analysis. ”

 

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

It shows a sample of how poor of an education some of our students receive.

 

At least the topic is being taught though. Some school districts like in Phoenix canceled ethnic studies for fear that the students would become radical.

See on andrewpegoda.com

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Howard Zinn on honesty in history

Segment from Democracy Now aired May 13th, 2009 featuring the great Howard Zinn.

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

Many will not take history classes in college, or even go to college, so children need to learn as much truth about history as they can.

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Undocumented: How Immigration Became Illegal eBook: Aviva Chomsky

 

Explores what it means to be undocumented in a legal, social, economic and historical context

Immigrant rights activist Aviva Chomsky shows how “illegality” and “undocumentedness” are concepts that were created to exclude and exploit. With a focus on US policy, she probes how and why people, especially Mexican and Central Americans, have been assigned this status—and to what ends. Blending history with human drama, Chomsky explores what it means to be undocumented in a legal, social, economic, and historical context. She also unmasks how undocumented people live—how they work, what social services they’re eligible for, and how being undocumented affects the lives of children and families. Undocumented turns a fresh lens onto one of today’s most pressing debates.

 
See on www.amazon.com

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The Origins of the Asian American Model Minority Myth

 

“Historian Ellen Wu’s The Color of Success: Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority just might be the best examination of the roots of the model minority stereotype in print.

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No doubt the enthusiasm among many Asian Americans to accept model minority stereotyping was a reflection of the fact that the menu of choices where stereotypes were concerned appeared to be restricted to either “model minority” or “yellow peril.” And the stakes were high. The “yellow peril” stereotype had been used to justify wars in Korea and Vietnam, the mass internment of Japanese Americans during WWII, anti-communist persecution of Chinese Americans under the McCarran Act, and no small amount of racial exclusion and terrorism.”

 

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

“As long as U.S immigration policy has a preference for the highly educated, the U.S. will continue to bring in ‘model minorities’.

 

The term ‘model minority’ is based on a bias for educated people.

 

Latinos are also ‘model minorities’ in that they are compliant workers who harvest the crops and work in the slaughter houses, but they are not ‘sold’ by the media in those terms because on average they are not the highly educated workforce.”

 

@getgln

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Person Of The Day: Malcolm X

 

Malcolm X was assassinated on this day, dying in a hail of bullets right before addressing the Organization of Afro-American Unity in Manhattan’s Audubon Ballroom. Several accounts of the stories have been told, with many pointing to the NOI being responsible for the leader’s death.

 
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