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How Donald Trump Brought (Some of) Us Together – Keli Goff / The Daily Beast
Race/Related: The non-white vote, explained / NYT
Legacy of bloody election day lingers in Florida town – Andrew Maraniss / The Undefeated
Behind 2016’s Turmoil, a Crisis of White Identity – Amanda Taub / NYT Magazine
Call it the crisis of whiteness. White anxiety has fueled this year’s political tumult in the West: Britain’s surprising vote to exit the European Union, Donald J. Trump’s unexpected capture of the Republican presidential nomination…
Over six million Americans can’t vote due to felony convictions, including one in 13 black people – Stephen Wolf / Daily Kos
Net worth of white households in D.C. region is 81 times that of black households – Perry Stein / Wash Post
The Ku Klux Klan makes it official, endorses Donald Trump saying ‘Make America Great Again’ – Jen Hayden / Daily Kos
How Trump Has Helped the Christian Right Return to Its White Nationalist Roots – Brian Tashman / Right Wing Watch via AlterNet
A Region That Sees Racism as a Threat to Its Economy – Alexia Fernandez Campbell / The Atlantic
American Indians Killed by Cops at Highest Rate in the Nation, but They’re Invisible in the Media – Meteor Blades / Daily Kos via AlterNet
We Can’t Stop Looking at These Unforgettable Images of the Black Panthers – Mark Murrmann / Mother Jones
For the 50th anniversary of the Black Panther Party, two exceptional new books take on the legacy and history of one of the most powerful and controversial community empowerment movements in America. One book offers…
How America’s Past Shapes Native Americans’ Present – Alexia Fernandez Campbell / The Atlantic
White armed occupiers were acquitted. Native American activists were tear gassed – Laurel Raymond / ThinkProgress
A majority of Donald Trump supporters think everything has been terrible since the 1950s – Matthew Roza / Salon
Booked: When Slaveholders Controlled the Government, with Matthew Karp – Timothy Shenk / Dissent
The age of Trump largely exists because of a resurgent white racial identity – Eric D. Knowles and Linda R. Tropp / The New Republic
Many political commentators credit Donald Trump’s rise to white voters’ antipathy toward racial and ethnic minorities. However, we believe this focus on racial resentment obscures another important aspect of racial thinking. In a study of…
Segregation Begins in Pre-K – Michelle Chen / The Nation
Red Lines, Black Lives – How Housing Discrimination Created Inequality – Colin Gordon / Dissent
When Ta-Nehisi Coates’s made his influential “Case for Reparations” in the pages of the Atlantic in 2014, his focus, perhaps surprisingly, was not on slavery. It was on housing discrimination—all of the measures that, from…
