This is the grave of Jim Jeffries. Born in 1875 in Carroll, Ohio, Jeffries grew up in Los Angeles. His family moved there in 1882, which was well before LA became a boom town. He was a working class guy and got a job as...
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I wonder if or when Americans will really wake up to just how far this administration is willing to go on the issue of white supremacy. For years, a National.
There is a legitimate way to take shots at the Diversity/Equity/Inclusion departments on campuses. It is that they are cynical attempts to "solve" racism through hiring more administrators instead of,.
In our latest podcast, we interviewed Samantha Seeley of the University of Richmond about her recent book Race, Removal, and the Right to Remain: Migration and the Making of the United States. This is a fantastic book about the idea of free migration as central...
One thing that contemporary American racial politics does is to create incentives to make sharp definitions on race that don't really make sense in, say, Canada or Mexico, not to.
In recent years, discussions of Eli Whitney have noted that despite claims that he "invented" the cotton gin, it was almost certainly the slaves of the Rhode Island revolutionary hero.
I am never sure if systems of racism like the U.S. are worse, what with their own hatred and discrimination, or if systems of racism like Brazil are worse, where everyone just denies that racism exists even though the end result is that white people...
For our latest podcast, we talked to Megan Asaka, a historian from the University of California-Riverside, about her new book Seattle from the Margins: Exclusion, Erasure, and the Making of.
As Scott points out, the Supreme Court is going to throw out Biden's student loan relief program based on the solid Constitutional principle of "Fuck Democrats." While I don't think.
Ira Katznelson published his critically important When Affirmative Action Was White in 2005. It's one of the most important books published on historical topics in the early 21st century. Katznelson thinks back to the book's major themes eighteen years later in this long Boston Review...
Scene between the National Guard and Black men, Chicago Race Riot, 1919
I recently read Charles Blow's new book, where he urges Black northerners to move back South to concentrate their political power. It's a super book and LGM readers should check.