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How Chinese Migrants Built the Transcontinental Railroad
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How Chinese Migrants Built the Transcontinental Railroad

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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2058 1436 Dominique Stewart
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

The addition of a MENA category would recognize a community that has been rendered invisible by the government.

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2400 1350 Dominique Stewart
The Young Women Fighting to Save Chinatowns
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The Young Women Fighting to Save Chinatowns

As Chinatowns around the world reel from racial and economic injustice, young women are organizing to save these iconic 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

Recent discussions of ethnocentrism often fall short of interpreting the relationship between ethnocentrism and racism.

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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

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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Reject the Use of Reductive Statements in Social Discourse
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Reject the Use of Reductive Statements in Social Discourse

Reductive statements in political and social discourse don’t help resolve these injustices but further uphold a broken, inequitable system.

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2400 1600 Dominique Stewart
Building Solidarity Across Differences
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Building Solidarity Across Differences

Solidarity amongst marginalized groups requires education, organizing, and work but is essential in dismantling white supremacy.

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2400 1600 Andrew Lee
How Stigmatizing Diseases Harms Public Health and Communities
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How Stigmatizing Diseases Harms Public Health and Communities

Biased reporting and imagery of the monkeypox outbreak reinforce homophobic and racist stereotypes and mimic a history of stigmatizing disease.

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2400 1600 Dominique Stewart
Vincent Chin and the Country’s History of AAPI Violence and Discrimination
A person during a protest holds sign that says, "Stop AAPI hate."

Vincent Chin and the Country’s History of AAPI Violence and Discrimination

Forty years after the racially motivated hate crime against Vincent Chin, Asian communities are still experiencing rampant hate crimes.

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2400 1600 Nicole Cardoza
Learn about the “one-drop rule”.

Learn about the “one-drop rule”.

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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