by Rich Wandschneider | Feb 20, 2023 | Maxville, racism, Rail routes West. Pacific railroads, railroads
There was a short interview on NPR this morning about a new book about Black women and trains. I didn’t catch much of it, but the book was written by a scholar, and she talked about the importance of trains as both a part of and a symbol of the country’s Westward...
by Rich Wandschneider | Nov 2, 2020 | assimilation, Ibram X. Kendi, Indians in unexpected places, Philip J. Deloria, racism, Stamped from the Beginning
One of the first axioms of White-Indian relations I remember hearing from Alvin Josephy was that from the moment Europeans hit the North American shore, indigenous peoples had three choices: they could move away; they could become white; or they could die....
by Rich Wandschneider | Sep 23, 2020 | Alvin Josephy, assimilation, Ibram X. Kendi, original sin, racism, slavery, white supremacy
“No adverse impact visited on the 1492 voyage of “discovery” was more profound in its consequences in every nook and cranny of the Americas than Columbus’s introduction of Western European ethnocentricity to the Indians’ worlds....
by Rich Wandschneider | Sep 21, 2020 | assimilation, GI Bill, Ibram X. Kendi, Jim Crow, racism, Relocation program, segregation, Termination act, white superiority
Ibram X. Kendi’s book, Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, is an exhaustive catalog of religious, social, and economic attitudes and policies that began with the importation of African slaves and continue to this day. The...
by Rich Wandschneider | Nov 22, 2019 | assimilation, immigration, Manifest Destiny, racism, Stephen Miller
And immigration too. If we think about it, we, as individuals, families, communities, and a nation are conflicted about both race and immigration, and always have been. This came to mind this week with news that White House advisor Stephen Miller was exposed as having...
by Rich Wandschneider | Mar 22, 2018 | Jackie Robinson story, racism, women and children
Recent studies show that African-American women with similar economic and educational backgrounds to white counterparts die more often in childbirth, and at younger ages overall. After ruling out all of the geographic and sociological factors they can, researchers...
