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White skin privilege was not a given here for whites; Pacific Islanders and local Asians, even Japanese Americans, enjoyed authority in civic life.
Adria L. Imada • Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire
Michelle Alexander in The New Jim Crow.
Ijeoma Oluo • So You Want to Talk About Race
His was merely the first white face to gaze upon the Mississippi. That’s why most American history textbooks include
James W. Loewen • Lies My Teacher Told Me
Moreover, Harriet Stowe had made a black man her hero, and she took his race seriously, and no American writer had done that before. The fundamental fault, she fervently held, was with the system. Every white American was guilty, the Northerner no less than the slaveholder, especially the churchgoing kind, her kind.
David McCullough • Brave Companions
The broken oasis is a motif in the post-emancipation South. Wilmington is but one example. Others include Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Rosewood, Florida. And Little Hayti, not the one in Miami but the long-lost Black town near Durham, named after the first Black republic and birthplace to Vogue’s André Leon Talley. And Zora Neale Hurston’s Eatonville, Flor
... See moreImani Perry • South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act
Elaine Tyler May • Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era
The title of Dewey’s first lecture in China was “Democratic Developments in America.” More than a thousand attended, and soon the American was being hailed as a “second Confucius.”