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How Chinese Migrants Built the Transcontinental Railroad
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How Chinese Migrants Built the Transcontinental Railroad
Dominique Stewart
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The Transcontinental Railroad is hailed as one of the country’s greatest engineering feats, but the immigrants who built it have long been ignored. 

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History
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How a MENA Category Could Reverse the Whitewashing of a Community
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How a MENA Category Could Reverse the Whitewashing of a Community
Dominique Stewart
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The addition of a MENA category would recognize a community that has been rendered invisible by the government.

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Media & Culture Politics
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The Young Women Fighting to Save Chinatowns
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The Young Women Fighting to Save Chinatowns
Eileen Huang
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As Chinatowns around the world reel from racial and economic injustice, young women are organizing to save these iconic neighborhoods.

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Neighborhoods
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Ethnocentrism: The Good, the Bad, and the Racist
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Ethnocentrism: The Good, the Bad, and the Racist
Nicole Cardoza
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Recent discussions of ethnocentrism often fall short of interpreting the relationship between ethnocentrism and racism.

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Media & Culture
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A Timeline of the FBI and its Role in Political Persecution
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A Timeline of the FBI and its Role in Political Persecution
Andrew Lee
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On August 8, the FBI raided former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home on suspicion of mishandling classified documents (MSN).  When activists demanded defunding of the police, conservatives trumpeted their unconditional support for law enforcement. For the same people to now shout “defund the FBI” raises the question of whether “their love of law enforcement only…

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History Legal System
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Reject the Use of Reductive Statements in Social Discourse
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Reject the Use of Reductive Statements in Social Discourse
Dominique Stewart
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Reductive statements in political and social discourse don’t help resolve these injustices but further uphold a broken, inequitable system.

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Media & Culture Social Justice
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Building Solidarity Across Differences
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Building Solidarity Across Differences
Andrew Lee
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Solidarity amongst marginalized groups requires education, organizing, and work but is essential in dismantling white supremacy.

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History Social Justice
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How Stigmatizing Diseases Harms Public Health and Communities
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How Stigmatizing Diseases Harms Public Health and Communities
Dominique Stewart
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Biased reporting and imagery of the monkeypox outbreak reinforce homophobic and racist stereotypes and mimic a history of stigmatizing disease.

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Health
2400 1600 Dominique Stewart
Vincent Chin and the Country’s History of AAPI Violence and Discrimination
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Vincent Chin and the Country’s History of AAPI Violence and Discrimination
Nicole Cardoza
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Forty years after the racially motivated hate crime against Vincent Chin, Asian communities are still experiencing rampant hate crimes.

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Legal System Social Justice
2400 1600 Nicole Cardoza
Learn about the “one-drop rule”.

Learn about the “one-drop rule”.
Andrew Lee
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The borders of racial categories are malleable, contested, and change over time. But believing that demographic changes will inevitably cause the racial hierarchy to fade away ignores centuries of evidence to the contrary.

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History Media & Culture
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