Tweeps, what are best *scholarly* articles on history and national memory? Thank you in advance! — Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) November 16, 2020
November 17, 2020
by Judith Kilborn
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November 17, 2020
by Judith Kilborn
285 Comments
Tweeps, what are best *scholarly* articles on history and national memory? Thank you in advance! — Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) November 16, 2020
November 7, 2020
by Judith Kilborn
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Well said. pic.twitter.com/j4Y80Geh4X — Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) November 7, 2020
December 15, 2019
by Judith Kilborn
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In our remix, we cover the struggles students of color receive from implicit biases in school and school police. We talk about how the disparities of African American boys getting suspended and expelled can affect a child in the long … Continue reading
December 9, 2019
by Judith Kilborn
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According to the Associated Press (https://apnews.com/683ea46398057281596bb8ab09ee287a), A Confederate statue would be moved from a central spot on the University of Mississippi’s campus to a less prominent Confederate cemetery, under a proposal approved Friday by a state board. The cemetery is still … Continue reading
December 1, 2019
by Judith Kilborn
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In case you haven’t heard, here’s the lead of an November 30th article from NBC News: Ilhan Omar’s opponent banned from Twitter after suggesting congresswoman should be hanged “Violent rhetoric inevitably leads to violent threats, and ultimately, violent acts,” Omar … Continue reading
November 20, 2019
by Judith Kilborn
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Here are some remixes that student groups gave me permission to share (and that are publicly available on YouTube). The later examples provide the students’ paragraphs of introduction: Gender Bias in the Workplace Our group, composed of four women, worked together … Continue reading
November 4, 2019
by Judith Kilborn
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Professor Christopher Lehman will talk about his new book documenting Minnesota’s ties to slavery on Wednesday, November 6th, at 7 p.m. in Miller Center Auditorium. This St. Cloud Times’ article reveals some of this history. (I mentioned some of this information in … Continue reading
October 13, 2019
by Judith Kilborn
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A young girl prays at her bedside at a boarding school. A new book by an Ojibwe author tells the stories life for American Indian children in boarding schools designed to purge their language and culture. Here’s the lead for … Continue reading
October 12, 2019
by Judith Kilborn
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In this Washington Post podcast, “Laura Meckler goes back to her hometown of Shaker Heights, Ohio, to try to understand why integration efforts in schools there are still not closing the achievement gap” (https://www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/post-reports/why-a-suburbs-integrated-schools-are-still-failing-black-students/).
October 9, 2019
by Judith Kilborn
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MPR has an interesting story (that you can listen to via a podcast or read) about the movement among parents of multiracial families learning to dress the natural hair of their adopted children. Some of you asked me what I … Continue reading