Racism – Brewminate: We're Never Far From Where We Were https://brewminate.com Fri, 02 Oct 2026 20:13:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://brewminate.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/cropped-BrewBLogo01-32x32.jpg Racism – Brewminate: We're Never Far From Where We Were https://brewminate.com 32 32 Slavery and Dutch Art: Reckoning with the Colonial Legacy of the Canon https://brewminate.com/slavery-dutch-art-colonial-legacy/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 20:13:11 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=198245 Dutch and Flemish art cannot be separated from slavery’s legacy. Black scholarship and artists offer ways to challenge

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]]> Peter Burnett: California’s First Governor and the Politics of Racial Exclusion https://brewminate.com/peter-burnett-california-governor-racial-exclusion/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 19:58:54 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=195726 California’s first governor, Peter Burnett, sought to exclude Black residents despite the state’s ban on slavery. His career

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]]> The Emancipation Proclamation: Lincoln’s Decree and the Long Fight for Equality https://brewminate.com/emancipation-proclamation-freedom-equality/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 19:38:02 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=199421 Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation helped turn the Civil War into a fight against slavery. Its limited reach and enduring

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]]> How Alpine Singing Helped Repackage Blackface Minstrelsy in the 19th Century https://brewminate.com/alpine-yodeling-blackface-minstrelsy/ Sat, 26 Sep 2026 03:24:10 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=196108 Alpine singers inspired American folk-singing families, whose harmonies blackface troupes adapted in the 1840s. The borrowed style helped

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]]> How ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’ Became a Great American Novel https://brewminate.com/how-uncle-toms-cabin-became-a-great-american-novel/ Sat, 26 Sep 2026 02:16:59 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=198287 Uncle Tom’s Cabin captivated readers before the Civil War. Its changing reception reveals how an antislavery bestseller became

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]]> The Tuskegee Syphilis Study and the Suppression of Medical Truth https://brewminate.com/tuskegee-syphilis-study-medical-deception-public-health/ Tue, 10 Mar 2026 14:00:00 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=270883 The Tuskegee Syphilis Study reveals how the suppression of medical information by government researchers eroded trust, exposed ethical

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]]> When Nature Speaks for Power: Aristotle and the Moral Laundering of Domination https://brewminate.com/when-nature-speaks-for-power-aristotle-and-the-moral-laundering-of-domination/ Tue, 10 Feb 2026 15:34:06 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=269916 What makes Aristotle’s logic especially dangerous is its respectability. When authority borrows the voice of nature, it speaks

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]]> Classifying the Human: Carl Linnaeus and the Birth of Modern of Scientific Racism https://brewminate.com/classifying-the-human-carl-linnaeus-and-the-birth-of-modern-of-scientific-racism/ Tue, 10 Feb 2026 15:33:07 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=269930 Because of the work of Linnaeus and others, entire populations were positioned as less rational, less capable, and

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]]> How Civil Rights Leader Mary McLeod Bethune Sought to Unify the African Diaspora https://brewminate.com/how-civil-rights-leader-mary-mcleod-bethune-sought-to-unify-the-african-diaspora/ Wed, 03 Dec 2025 18:05:34 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=235256 How an archivist came to see Bethune as a global figure. Introduction When I first landed an internship

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]]> The Black Women Soldiers Who Demanded Opportunities during World War II https://brewminate.com/the-black-women-soldiers-who-demanded-opportunities-during-world-war-ii/ Sun, 30 Nov 2025 01:44:49 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=196164 Four women went on strike at Fort Devins to do skilled jobs instead of ‘maid work’. In late

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