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“This refers to the largest ethnic groups of Jews. (Note: there are a lot of different ethnic/racial divisions among Jews .) The Ashkenazi was a group of Jewish people who migrated North from the Middle East to Eastern Europe about 1000 BC. In turn, this group immigrated heavily to the United…”
“In microcosm, this is the story of a single event – a fashion show outside Paris in 1973 that was over in about three hours. But if you take a longer view, it’s a story of the history of fashion to that point, and its intersection with race in America. The Palace of Versailles is where the last…”
“This might be the Whitest thing I could ever say, but I just didn’t get it. I understand the point of this book – it’s a cry of protest, meant to be a reminder of how far we have to go as a society in terms of racial equity, lest we get too impressed with ourselves. Stylistically, the book can be a…”
“This is a (presumably) mildly racist term mean to describe a low-paid member of the working class of a race other than the speaker. In most cases, the speaker is White, and the worker is either Black or Hispanic. Wikipedia specifies Asians: is a term for a low-wage laborer, typically of South Asian…”
“I had trouble connecting with this book. It describes Grand Prix and rally racing of the 1930s – the ‘Golden Age of Auto Racing,’ this era is called. Racing, especially then, is, by nature, visceral and sensory, and I felt disconnected from it. The central theme is that Hitler and the Nazis used…”
“A slave in the antebellum South could be a ‘field negro’ or a ‘house negro.’ The former worked as a laborer in the fields, the latter worked as a servant in the house, and usually had an easier workload and better working conditions. However, to work in the house, a slave had to be compliant and…”
“…maybe? The Huns were a nomadic civilization in Eastern Europe. They’re mainly known for their King Atilla (‘Atilla the Hun’). The area in which they roamed and ruled very closely corresponds to the area of modern-day Hungary. The Huns were active in 300-400 AD. The country of Hungary was declared…”
“A new word, coined in 2008 by Moya Bailey , it means a prejudice or dislike of Black women specifically. She wrote : I was looking for precise language to describe why Renisha McBride would be shot in the face, or why The Onion would think it’s okay to talk about Quvenzhané the way they did, or the…”
“This book explains (it doesn’t ‘claim,’ it just explains) that Black humans are generally better athletes than White humans. It goes deep into the different regions of Africa, and shows how significant portions of athletics are simply dominated by athletes from those regions. In particular, the…”
“One of those books which you know is Very Significant, but that which you wouldn’t read for any other reason. The dialect (emancipated slaves in Florida at the turn of the century) is hard to read, and the story moves slowly. It gets a little more compelling toward the end, when there’s a crisis…”
“I don’t really feel like this book is that groundbreaking. It was a little controversial at the time because is evaluated and analyzed ethnic groups, which is never popular. The authors (a married couple, both law professors at Yale), say that the ‘success’ of a community or group depends on three…”
“This is a novel from 1851 designed to reveal the horrors of slavery. And it worked – it caused outrage across the United States and pushed the country toward the Civil War. The author, Harriet Beecher Stowe, was prompted to write the novel by the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which…”
“This was the depiction of East Asians as an existential threat to the Western World, mainly during the late 1800s and early 1900s. Asians were used as antagonists in movies, novels, and comic books, often portrayed as criminal masterminds bent on taking over the world. This was partially due to…”