Tag: American History

The Story of America is a Failed Group Project

.Reading time 8 minutes.

America was never a group project. In fact, in practice, the country acted independently of those indigenous to Turtle Island and created laws to ensure that Africans and African Americans could not contribute. This democratic project remains restricted to a particular demographic: men racialized as white. There have always been competing visions of inclusion, unity […]

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America is a Big White Lie

.Reading time 6 minutes.

America is turning 250 in a few months and the Trump administration is taking its citizens down memory lane.  Kidnapping and killing citizens and immigrants, converting warehouses to concentration camps, rolling back women’s rights, suppressing votes, and reengraving the hierarchies of race and gender, executive actions all taken to get the country back to its […]

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