What the Myth of Enslaved Irish People Tells Us About Whiteness and Resistance
Though Irish people suffered from colonization, the “Irish were slaves first” story is used to attack the struggle for racial justice.
read moreThough Irish people suffered from colonization, the “Irish were slaves first” story is used to attack the struggle for racial justice.
read moreThe U.S. legal system played a vital role in constructing the country’s understanding of race and whiteness, as was the case of Bhagat Singh Thind.
read moreWhoopi Goldberg’s Holocaust comments on The View inaccurately claimed that the genocide of millions of Jews was not about race. During the Holocaust, Jewish people were labeled as an “inferior race” by the Nazis, echoing similar eugenicist beliefs held in the U.S. during that time.
read moreTwo trending videos on Tiktok reignite conversations about the horrors inflicted due to white women tears.
read moreBut race is a social construct, and social constructs have social histories. Our modern understanding of race was created at a specific historical juncture in colonial Virginia. Prior to that, it did not exist.
read moreHistorically, interpretations of classical art are based on preconceived notions of anti-blackness when whiteness is seen as the standard.
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