Tag: racism and xenophobia
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Quotation: Dana Milbank on warped notions of freedom and community.
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“The Children Were Watching,” dir. Robert Drew and Richard Leacock, USA 1961, 25 min. — This documentary doesn’t feel as old to me as I wish it did. In part that’s because I watched it in Trump’s America during an especially difficult year, but something deeper is at play. The…
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Minnesota Governor Walz’s assertion that ongoing riots are no longer about George Floyd ring true in a way. But were they ever about one man? Floyd’s death was certainly no one-off. The protests—and the participation of so many young people—should give pause to those leaders who would gloss over this…
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Political cartoon from Puck about nativism in Congress in 1916. The cartoonist employs the metaphor of a fortress wall to make his point about a proposed literacy test for immigrants.
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This 1899 map’s legend makes sense within a late-nineteenth-century imperialist framework, and the brutality of its seemingly objectively portrayed vision is unmistakable.
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Jeet Heer’s provocative commentary in the New Republic is worth a read: “America Has Always Been Angry and Violent.” The historical rhetoric he offers is startling. I definitely need to read more U.S. history.
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Quotation by Heather Gilligan on German Jewish refugees who found themselves at historically black colleges in the U.S. South.
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YouTube Video: U.S. War Department film showing a young man nearly sucked in by racism and xenophobia until a Hungarian American narrator uses recent history to talk him out of it.
