Roundup

This page features brief excerpts of stories published by the mainstream media and, less frequently, blogs, alternative media, and even obviously biased sources. The excerpts are taken directly from the websites cited in each source note. Quotation marks are not used.

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• SOURCE: TIME
  1/26/2023
  

  Why "Woke" is Such a Convenient Dog Whistle for the Right

  by Samuel L. Perry and Eric L. McDaniel

  The term hints at evoking demonized populations—Black and LGBTQ Floridians, for instance—while maintaining enough ambiguity to foster deniability about the consequences of legislation. It also has the auxiliary function of trolling white liberals. 

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• SOURCE: Yes!
  1/26/2023
  

  Why We Need Pirates

  by Paul Buhle, Marcus Rediker and David Lester

  Though vilified in popular culture, the history of piracy shows that many crews were egalitarian bands of maritime workers escaping their exploitation at the hands of merchant companies and navies. A new graphic adaptation of a recent history of piracy tells the story. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  1/29/2023
  

  Mass Shootings Reflect the Narcissism of Young Men

  by Tom Nichols

  The injured grandiosity of "failed to launch" young men is pushing them to seek outsize revenge, often using the readily available guns. 

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• SOURCE: The Bulwark
  1/27/2023
  

  Kids Could Teach Republican Pols a Lesson About Handling the Harsh Truth

  by Margaret McMullan

  "Decades after she first walked into Little Rock Central High, Elizabeth Eckford said, 'True reconciliation can occur only when we honestly acknowledge our painful, but shared past'."

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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  1/29/2023
  

  The Real Failures of January 6

  by Karen J. Greenberg

  Despite surface similarities, the attack on Brazil's government buildings earlier this month differed from January 6, 2021 in one key respect: the transfer of presidential power had already been accomplished. The contrast is sobering—for America. 

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  1/28/2023
  

  The Police Killing of Tyre Nichols Was Heinous, but not an Aberration

  by Simon Balto

  Americans must not continue to presume that violent incidents are external to the basic role and function of policing in society. 

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  1/30/2023
  

  Regina Twala's Stolen Life Work Highlights Colonialism Inside the Historical Profession

  by Joel Cabrita

  Regina Twala performed the intellectual labor that supported another intellectual's published work on African religious practices; her obscurity was the foundation of his fame. 

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  1/30/2023
  

  Fear of a Black Studies Planet

  by Roderick A. Ferguson

  A scholar whose work was named in Florida's decision not to support the AP African American Studies course discusses a long history of conservative efforts to control textbooks and teaching and, failing that, to create politically useful hysteria about indoctrination. 

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• 1/27/2023
  

  The Roundup Top Ten for January 27, 2023

  The top opinion writing by historians and about history from around the web this week. 

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  1/24/2023
  

  Some Escaped Slavery Without Escaping the South

  by Viola Franziska Müller

  The majority of people escaping slavery before Emancipation never crossed the Mason-Dixon line, finding a measure of freedom in southern cities. 

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• SOURCE: The Baffler
  1/24/2023
  

  Bolsonaro's Long Shadow

  by Nara Roberta Silva

  The recently departed president is only the latest, and probably not the last, avatar of antidemocratic impulses in Brazilian politics, generally reflected by the elite recruiting the anxieties of the middle class to thwart broader social rights for the nation's poor. 

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  1/23/2023
  

  Nobody Has My Condition But Me

  by Beverly Gage

  Presenting with unusual autoimmune symptoms tied to a thus-far unique genetic mutation placed a reseacher and biographer on the other side of being studied. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  1/23/2023
  

  Miami-Dade has Lurched Right, but Still Loves "Obamacare"

  by Catherine Mas

  Even though conservative Latinos in Miami are generally suspicious of "socialism", the long history of local government support for medical access means that many carve out a big exception for the Affordable Care Act. 

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• SOURCE: TIME
  1/21/2023
  

  What My Mother's Activism Before Roe Shows Us about the Upcoming Fights after Dobbs

  by Felicia Kornbluh

  "The first thing we’ve missed about Roe is that it was merely the final scene in a drama whose origins lay far from the U.S. Supreme Court... a movement that resembled the movement for abortion rights today, centered on policy change in individual states and localities."

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• SOURCE: Inquest
  1/24/2023
  

  Family Histories where Black Power Met Police Power

  by Dan Berger

  Fighting back against mass incarceration today means learning from the stories of Black Power activists who fought against the expansion of police power and surveillance since the 1960s. 

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  1/24/2023
  

  College Faculty: After K-12, Curriculum Laws are Coming For You

  by James Grossman and Jeremy C. Young

  State colleges involved with concurrent enrollment programs that allow high school students to take classes for credit are already susceptible to laws purporting to fight "indoctrination" in the secondary school curriculum. More intrusions on academic freedom are coming. 

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  1/25/2023
  

  Atlanta's BeltLine Project a Case Study in Park-Driven "Green Gentrification"

  by Dan Immergluck

  Although the ambitious combination of multiuse trails and apartment complexes "was designed to connect Atlantans and improve their quality of life, it has driven up housing costs on nearby land and pushed low-income households out to suburbs with fewer services than downtown neighborhoods."

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• SOURCE: Nursing Clio
  1/26/2023
  

  Margaret Bingham Stillwell, Women Archivists, and the Problem of Archival Inclusivity

  by Amanda E. Strauss and Karin Wulf

  Two scholars who are the first women leaders of their institutions reflect on the ongoing lessons of a pioneering woman archivist and rare books librarian for understanding how archival practices can be made to include or exclude. 

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  1/25/2023
  

  Beyond Mythbusting, What Should Historians Tell the Public?

  by Steven Mintz

  The success of the new "Myth America" collection shows a public appetite for confronting historical myths, but historians have to offer the public more than debunking. 

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• SOURCE: La Voz
  1/15/2023
  

  The History of Mexican Americans in Austin

  by Cynthia E. Orozco

  A historian works to develop a chronicle of Mexican American community events in the city of Austin with a local community newspaper.