#Slavery

This year I've started assigning something I call "Weekly Encounters" where students get credit for telling me how they "encountered" our course content out in the wild. The goal is
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A few days ago @mrjamesob asked me if I felt vindicated bc I’ve been saying for years that they’re fascists. And I realized when I woke up this morning the
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In 1965, there were no Blks in the U.S. Senate nor any Blk governors & only 6 House of Representatives were Blk. As of 2019 there is 52 House members
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Today is the anniversary of The Donghak Revolution, a peasant-led rebellion that sought to overthrow feudalism and repel foreign imperialists competing for power in Korea. The Donghak Rebellion began on
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#Thread JASSA SINGH ALHUWALIA-WHO SAVED MARATHA WOMEN FROM AFGHANS:Jan,1761, 3rd battle of Panipat happened. Marathas lost the battle to ahmad shah abdali, because abdali was supported by three allies in
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Just say "White people."The people upset about this proposal don't factor in the racial biases of the student loan industry or how they benefit. Here's why they should be happy.A
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Just in case anyone was unaware: the Choctaw Nation chose to legalize chattel slavery within the tribe. Tribal members owned slaves of African descent and many enslaved people walked the
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This is what internalised racism looks like. She was raised to believe that her people didn’t suffer oppression and is embarrassed by the truths of our past. But as an
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The Continental Congress had the Declaration of Independence read aloud in public squares to announce their decision to “institute [a] new Government.”To many listening *at the time* what would have
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I have a lot of thoughts about today’s @CityHelpTriad Prayer Protest March, but I’ll just keep it simple. 1. Volunteers were awesome! Thank you for water and AV setup
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My take on the “cancel Aristotle debate”: what people are really demanding is a way of teaching the history of philosophy in a way that takes the sociology of philosophy
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lol someone’s favorite internet talking head is reminding us that kopmala isn’t ADOS or FBA or whatever the hell these xenophobic assholes are calling themselves these days. stick to your
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A thread of Obama's vitriol & contempt for Black Americans... During Obama's 8 years in the Oval office, Black Americans were getting slaughtered like cattle by police officers/vigilantes with impunity
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Today is a very good day to remind everyone of a chapter that isn't in the history books in the US. A racist American named William Walker invaded Nicaragua in
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'We Are Power' speech by John Trudell (July 18, 1980) https://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/trudellwearepower.htmlPlease consider reading and digesting the transcript. If it speaks to you, please consider sharing it independently
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[#NeuroRacism | Phrenology ] Phrenology was the study of head shapes and sizes. It was a pseudoscience wildly popular between 1820-1850.Surprisingly, its beginnings did not completely overlap with race. Instead,
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