Jorge Rodriguez (UTS): The Hermeneutic of Hegemony: The Conflation of Faith and Ideology and the Perpetuation of United States Slavery. From Common-place, a special issue on the Civil War at 150: Memory and meaning. Harry M. Hipler (Lenox): Lincoln’s Vision of Free Labor: Was Universal Opportunity, Education, and Economic Nationalism Enough to Enhance Freedmen's' Rights after the Civil War? Whet Mosen on how housing discrimination created the idea of whiteness, setting the stage for stories like “The Case for Reparations” today. From Vox, an interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates on American racism and reparations (and more and more). Ta-Nehisi Coates on how racism invented race in America: A narrative bibliography. With Atlantic article on reparations, Ta-Nehisi Coates sees payoff for years of struggle. Ta-Nehisi Coates has no plans to lead a political fight for reparations. David Frum on the impossibility of reparations: How would it work? Matthew Yglesias on how slavery reparations are workable and affordable. Kathleen Geier on racial inequality and the economics of reparations. Cutting through the nonsense on reparations: Some critiques of reparations manage to be both absurd and offensive. Isaac Chotiner went on a conservative radio show to talk about slavery reparations — this absurd, hilarious debate ensued. Eric Levitz on how the conversation about reparations reveals the right’s twisted morality. Gene Demby on how to tell who hasn't read the new Atlantic cover story. Tressie McMillan Cottom on why college isn’t the answer — reparations are. Rep. James Clyburn on “the case for reparations”. N. D. B. Connolly on the case for repair (and part 2). Jelani Cobb on what we talk about when we talk about reparations. Xuan-Thao Nguyen on China’s apologetic justice: Lessons for the United States?
