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A Conversation with Dr. Peniel Joseph

December 1, 2016 by efs429

By Edward Shore Dr. Peniel Joseph, an accomplished scholar, teacher, and a leading public voice on race in the United States, holds a joint professorship appointment at the LBJ School of Public Affairs and the History Department at the University of Texas-Austin. This past January, Dr. Joseph inaugurated the Center for the Study of Race […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: African Americans, Black History, Civil Rights, Op-eds, Race, Racial Inequality

Refusing to Forget

August 26, 2016 by efs429

By Edward Shore White terror and racial strife inflamed the Texas-Mexico border at the turn of the twentieth century. Historians estimate that police officers, Texas Rangers, vigilante groups, and ordinary civilians alike massacred between several hundred and five-thousand people of Mexican descent residing in the southern Texas borderlands between 1910 and 1920. The victims included […]

Filed Under: Archive: Featured Projects and New & Noteworthy, Featured Tagged With: Historical Memory, Mexican-Americans, Race, Texas, Violence

East Avenue

August 12, 2016 by efs429

Before Interstate Highway 35 divided Austin, East Avenue was the line that separated white and non-white Austin. Whites lived west of the East Avenue and African Americans and Mexican Americans occupied the area to the east. But before that, before the 1930s, black Austinites resided in enclaves throughout the city, says Eric Tang, Associate Professor of […]

Filed Under: Archive: Featured Projects and New & Noteworthy, Featured Tagged With: African Americans, Eastin Austin, Housing, Race, Racial Inequality, Segregation, Texas

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