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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. Transcript for Race in 1920s America: Hellfighters, Red Summer, and Restrictive Immigration Written and Read more…

By Elizabeth Garner Masarik, 2 months2 months ago
Race

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, 2 months2 months ago
Rosa Parks Being Finger Printed During the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Bad Women

Rosa Parks: Myth & Memory in the American Civil Rights Movement

The popular image of Parks is one of quiet, and demure respectability. When we were in elementary school, we were taught that Parks was a tired old woman, whose feet hurt after a long day on the job. Because she was a Black woman living in the south, she was Read more…

By Elizabeth Garner Masarik, 5 months2 months ago
LULAC members
Borders

LULAC, Adela Sloss-Vento, and the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement

Historian Cynthia Orozco has a new book out titled Agent of Change: Adela Sloss-Vento, Mexican-American Civil Rights Activist and Texas Feminist, which excavates the importance of a feminist figure of the Mexican American Civil Rights movement, adding to the scholarship that unearths the “forgotten” history of women’s importance in major Read more…

By Elizabeth Garner Masarik, 11 months7 months ago
Drugs

Mother’s Little Helper: Psychiatry, Gender, and the Rise of Psychopharmaceuticals

For centuries, psychiatrists searched for the cure to mental illness, frustrated that medical doctors seemed to be able to find the “magic bullet” medications to fight disease and infection. In the mid 20th century, though, a series of new major and minor tranquilizers revolutionized the world of psychiatry. Doctors doled Read more…

By Sarah Handley-Cousins, 1 year7 months ago
W.I.T.C.H. counterprotesters
Witches

WITCH: Women’s International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell

On a brisk autumn day in New York City, 1968, roughly 13 women spent the morning of October 31st dressing in black cloaks and dresses. They stuck feathers, leaves, and furs in their long hair.  One woman grabbed her enormous hat, roughly in the shape of a costume witch hat, Read more…

By Elizabeth Garner Masarik, 2 years7 months ago
A man poses in front of a gray gekrat bus
Eugenics

Life Unworthy of Life: The Nazi Programs to Kill People with Disabilities

At the beginning of the 20th century, eugenics – the belief that the human population could be manipulated through selective breeding – was on the cutting-edge of modern science. Following the example set by American eugenic sterilization and anti-miscegenation laws, and empowered by the rise of the ultra ethno-nationalist Nazi Read more…

By Sarah Handley-Cousins, 3 years7 months ago
The Great Wave of Kanagawa Katsushika a Japanese painting of a blue and white wave overtaking several boats
Environment

Trees that Fight Back: Shinto & the Environment in Japan

Shinto – In Japan, recognizing the spirit of all things – from trees to mountains to interestingly shaped rocks – is part of Shinto. Older than writing in Japan, Shinto is the root of Japanese values and ways of thinking. Shinto is why the concepts of purity and impurity govern Read more…

By Averill Earls, 4 years7 months ago
A wedding party standing on the steps of a court house
Womyn

Marriage in America: A Brief History

Marriage – the word alone is loaded. Marriage is the butt of jokes, the “old ball and chain,” the end of fun. Marriage can also bring up images of fear, of abuse, of control. And marriage can invoke images of happy couples, of new beginnings, and of really really expensive Read more…

By Elizabeth Garner Masarik, 4 years7 months ago
A black and white photo of a Igbo man surrounded by many women
Womyn

King Ahebi Ugbabe: Sex, Gender, and Power in Colonial Nigeria

King Ahebi Ugbabe was unique among the men of Igboland in colonial Nigeria. There weren’t many kings in Igboland at all. But the infrequency of kingship is not what set Ugbabe  apart: more importantly, in a world dominated by councils of old men, where political, social, economic, and spiritual roles were Read more…

By Averill Earls, 4 years10 months ago

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