July 2020
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As the California Department of Education (CDE) works to finalize the Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum it is facing efforts to exclude Arab American studies from the final Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum, and it seems that Palestine and Palestinians are at the core of the issue. Please consider supporting this effort to keep Arab American studies…
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Links to Recent Articles of Interest “A Brief History of Dangerous Others” By Richard Kreitner and Rick Perlstein, NYR [New York Review of Books' Daily, posted July 27 On the long history of “outside agitators” in the US, from slavery days to today's Black Lives Matter protests. Richard Kreitner writes for The Nation and has…
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Dear Friends, At a time when the outlook for covid is anything but positive in the United States, it's helpful to read this article by H-PAD member Pat Manning. One of the key lines in it is, “Common people are supporting each other with energy and imagination.” https://www.21global.ucsb.edu/global-e/june-2020/let-s-revive-economy-we-contained-covid Margaret Power and Van Gosse Share List
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Links to Recent Articles of Interest “History Shows That Sustained, Disruptive Protests Work” By Kevin A. Young, Yes! magazine, posted July 8 Uses examples from abolitionism, the civil rights movement, and the Vietnam antiwar movement. The author teaches history at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. “The Story Behind the Lee Statue in Richmond, Virginia” By…
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Historians for Peace and Justice, Newsletter #4 H-PAD Members and Supporter, H-PAD Occasional Newsletter #4–which focuses on resources and reports for H-PAD related activities during the current crisis—is attached. Please send feedback on Newsletter #4, and suggestions for our next newsletter to Andor Skotnes, skotna@sage.edu, or Kevin Young, kayoung@umass.edu. And check out the…
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Links to Recent Articles of Interest “Why It's Right That the Theodore Roosevelt Statue Comes Down” By Nick Mirzoeff, Hyperallergic, posted June 30 On the historical background of the Roosevelt statue, with its racial hierarchy, at the American Museum of Natural History. The author is a scholar of visual culture who teaches in the Department…