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CSPAN3 Punishment In The Jim Crow South February 14, 2016

Southerners, politicians are using gendered rhetoric. We talked about the white demagogues and how sexuality and race were used to create support. We talked about the myth of the black rapist. The idea that white women were passive and virtuous, outside of the maledominated political sphere, the rape of white women was seen as an assault on white honor. We sat through all of birth of a nation. That includes the classic trope. We looked at the mythology of reconstruction. There is the scene where the white daughter of the southern family is stocked by gus, the former Union Soldier and black criminal. She throws herself off the cliffs rather than be raped. The the klan comes to rescue. That movie we were looking at an example of that trope. Today what i would like to talk about is the way in which women themselves participated in that dialogue. Some people want to know what did southern white women have, particularly in the 1890s whe ....

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MSNBC Melissa Harris-Perry August 10, 2013

Some of the old stereotypes about the cold war contest between the United States and russia and ive encouraged mr. Putin to think forward as opposed to backwards on those issues, with mixed success. That was president obama yesterday during a press conference at the white house, capping off a week where the news has been all about u. S. russian relations. On wednesday, the president announced that he would skip a planned oneonone meeting with russian president Vladimir Putin. That was scheduled for next month. But the white house said that there has not been enough progress on major issues like nuclear arms and human rights to make a president ial meeting worthwhile. They also cited russias decision to give asylum to u. S. Leaker, Edward Snowden. The meeting was supposed to take place in moscow before the g8 economic summ ....

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Ida B. Wells-Barnett | Biography, Lynching, & Facts

Ida B. Wells-Barnett, American journalist who led an anti-lynching crusade in the United States in the 1890s. She later was active in promoting justice for African Americans and founded (1910) what was possibly the first Black women’s suffrage group, Chicago’s Alpha Suffrage Club. ....

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Black lives, Palestinian people and the voices of the oppressed

OPINION: It is possible to mourn the victims of Hamas violence and support the rights of the Palestinian people. Silencing those voices is a tool of oppression ....

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