Category: politics

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+ donald trump, election, higher education, JD Vance, politics, project 2025

What Does Project 2025 Say About Higher Education?: Part II

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As I began discussing in my previous post, Project 2025 will have a damaging impact on individuals’ access to higher education. This has been a long standing goal of conservatives, as Fabiola Cineas points out at Vox. The goal is to limit access to universities and to return them, in many ways, to places that will, as Lauren Lassabe Shepherd mentions when speaking with Cineas and describing … Read More What Does Project 2025 Say About Higher Education?: Part II

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+ brown v board of education, civil rights, history, politics, slavery, william faulkner

We Are Not Removed from Our Past

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Over the past week or so, I have seen multiple people on my social media feeds post this timeline. I don’t know who originated it, or who wrote it. However, I do know that almost every semester I construct my own timeline and break it down in class, usually going back to the end of the Civil War. When doing this, I break it … Read More We Are Not Removed from Our Past

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+ fascism, pauli murray, politics, song in a weary throat

The Smoldering of Fascism

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Throughout Song in a Weary Throat, Pauli Murray highlights the intersections between Jim Crow segregation and Nazi Germany. Specifically, Murray uses the term “fascism” in these comparisons, drawing attention to the ways that the United States, while working to promote and save democracy abroad nevertheless allowed fascism to grow and spread in the United States, not just in the South. This, of course, is something … Read More The Smoldering of Fascism

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+ history, killers of the dream, lillian e smith, politics, southern history

The Importance of Lillian Smith’s “Killers of the Dream” 75 Years Later in 2024

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This year marks the 75th anniversary of the initial publication of Lillian Smith’s Killers of the Dream, and as I reread it this past week, I kept thinking about its continued relevance today, especially during 2024, a year which, and I do not feel this is hyperbole, carries within it a huge deal of historical significance for the United States and our democratic experiment. Countless … Read More The Importance of Lillian Smith’s “Killers of the Dream” 75 Years Later in 2024

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+ american history, christianity, history, jimmy carter, martin luther king, jr, politics, religion, ronald reagan

Genteel Racism” in “America’s Providential History”

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Mark Beliles and Stephen McDowell’s America’s Providential History, which I started writing about in my pervious post, has been used in Christian schools and in the home-schooling movement since its initial publication in 1989. In American Fascists, Chris Hedges points out that the authors of this textbook define “‘liberty’ as fealty to ‘the Spirit of the Lord.’” Working towards “liberty” means freeing oneself from … Read More Genteel Racism” in “America’s Providential History”

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