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Race in 1920s America: Hellfighters, Red Summer, and Restrictive Immigration

In today’s episode we’re going to explore race in the 1920s and dig into a few key moments and movements to see how race and ethnicity played a key role in shaping the American interwar years. CLICK HERE for Corresponding Lesson Plan for this Episode Transcript for Race in 1920s Read more…

By Elizabeth Garner Masarik, 12 months2 months ago
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Apartheid in South Africa: A History

During WWII, South Africa’s United Party failed to enforce segregation laws with the vigor that most Afrikaners thought was necessary. As a result, war time was accompanied by growing fears of racial mixing and prophecies of racial doom for white South Africans. Afrikaners placed much of the blame for the Read more…

By Marissa Rhodes, 1 year4 months ago
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The Long History of Abolition in America

We’ve discussed the end of American slavery many, many times here on DIG. We’ve talked about abolition in the context of Reconstruction, in the context of refugees sometimes called “contraband,” in the context of Black military service, in the context of the Black Codes and Jim Crow – just to Read more…

By Sarah Handley-Cousins, 1 year1 year ago
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The Windrush Generation and the Mystique of British Anti-Racism

Over the last five years the British government has been reckoning with more recent expressions of the anti-immigration and anti-Black sentiments among its elected officials. The “Windrush scandal” broke in 2017, revealing that the British Home Office systematically and intentionally denied citizenship privileges (like access to the National Health Service, Read more…

By Averill Earls, 1 year1 year ago
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