Jon Breitenbucher

Here’s Ta-Nehisi Coates’s article on the history of state-sanctioned housing discrimination,”Case for Reparations.”

Here’s a critique of Coates, “Case Against Reparations” by Kevin Williamson

Blacks Still Face a Red Line on Housing

By the Editorial Board
“For generations of white American families, homeownership has been a fundamental means of accumulating wealth. Their homes have grown in […]

I write to share an announcement for an exciting lecture next Thursday, April 19 at 7:30.

 
We are excited to host a multidisciplinary panel on “Feminist (im)mobilities and Liquid […]

Come join us for the WGSS Week Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon this Thursday, April 12th from 11am to 1pm in the Andrews Library CoRE.

Modern Brazil Students who come participate and register the articles they’ve […]

“Oprah Winfrey brings 60 Minutes cameras into a new memorial dedicated to the thousands of victims of lynching that took place over a 70-year period following the Civil War. It will be the first time the […]

Students, please consider supporting this important effort to help clean water projects in Central America by attending Soup & Bread next Wednesday, April 11 from 5-7pm in Kittredge.   I share Nate Addington’s m […]

United States History since 1877
Professor Jeff Roche

Here’s some recent context for Katie’s blog post.

Boston. Racism. Image. Reality
To our readers:
​The Spotlight Team began this project ​on race ​with deep humility. ​Taking on​ ​this topic ​has to be one of […]

“Red-State Teachers Unrest Just Keeps Spreading” by Ed Kilgore
“Eight Kentucky school districts — including those in Louisville and Lexington — are closed today as teachers stay home to protest the GOP leg […]

I hope you all attended Kathleen Cleaver’s talk. You’ll all have to tell me what you learned on Thursday evening. We will cover some of this in class, but not in depth. Here’s a documentary, The Black […]

As a follow-up to Thursday’s discussions of Marielle Franco’s assassination, I wanted to share this letter signed by international activists, artists, and writers calling for her death to be fully investigated and […]

Recently, I got a few wildlife cameras for my “Natural History of the Vertebrates” class. We deployed them out at Fern Valley Field Station for about a month (January and February 2018). The great thing about the […]

As we discussed again Schuyler’s socialist views in the 1920s and eventually his shift to conservatism, I meant historian Leah Wright Riguer’s book, The Loneliness of the Black Republican and this provocative […]

“Race, Racism, and Southern Myths”

by William Sturkey

“In 2010, two historians edited a collection of thirteen essays written by white historians about “The Myth of Southern Exceptionalism.” Admittedly, I a […]

Manisha Sinha “Today’s Eerie Echoes of the Civil War” 
“In 1858, Abraham Lincoln launched his campaign for the Senate seat from Illinois with his now famous “A House Divided” speech. While he did not predict disu […]

“Fifty years after the federal Fair Housing Act banned racial discrimination in lending, African Americans and Latinos continue to be routinely denied conventional mortgage loans at rates far higher than their […]

Tennessee School Removes Confederate Flag, lynching murals
“A painting of a Confederate flag and a mural depicting a lynching have been removed from the walls of a Tennessee school gymnasium.

The mural […]