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Racism as Theory: A Historiography of White Supremacy Ideology

This historiography theorizes racism as applicable to an explanation of why decision-makers at major white organizations waited until the late

On April 9, 1865, Robert E. Lee (commander of the Confederate States Army) formally surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant (commander

Children at Kosciusko Swimming Pool, Brooklyn, New York, 1970 (Wikimedia Commons) In The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs

In an 1851 report to the Louisiana Medical Association, New Orleans physician Samuel Cartwright coined the term “drapetomania”—the disease that

In the midst of the Great Depression in 1931, nine Black teenage boys were falsely convicted of allegedly raping two