Posted in History, Race Relations, Racialism on Aug 23rd, 2008
By 1855, only five states in the Union had not restricted the voting rights of free negroes: Maine, Massachusetts, Vermont, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire. In other words, New England. This and many other entries have been added to the American Racial History Timeline.
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Posted in History, Race Relations, Racialism on Jul 22nd, 2008
I have restarted the American Racial History Timeline. Feel free to add contributions.
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Posted in Racialism, White Nationalism on Jul 17th, 2008
Jim Kalb has some thoughts this morning about White Nationalism:
The basic problem with the approach, of course, is that “whiteness” doesn’t have much to say about what life is about, so it can’t serve as the basis of social order. That’s why the extreme nationalists and racists of the last century relied so much on theatrics [...]
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