Ob ein Film einen Oscar gewonnen hat, und wenn ja, wie viele, interessiert mich in der Regel höchstens am Rande. Bei diesem Roadmovie interessierten mich vor allem die hervorragenden Darsteller. Und mit diesen lohnt sich dieser Trip durch den rassistischen Süden der USA wirklich. (ARD, Wh)

History school books History school books
in the U.S. in the rest of the world

#uspol #politics #segregation #JimCrow #JimCrowLaws #Project2025 #MAGA #TrumpAdministration #TrumpAdministration2025 #SecondTrumpadministration #Trump #DonaldTrump #LindaMcMahon #DepartmentOfEducation #Pseudohistory #HistoricalNegationism #HistoricalDenialism #EpsteinFilesRelease #EpsteinCoverup

So worth reading about the three featured lives and their communities.

The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson

#Migration
#JimCrow
#bookstdon
#NewYorkTimesContemporaryLiterature

Today in Labor History December 18, 1865: US Secretary of State William Seward proclaimed the adoption of the Thirteenth Amendment, prohibiting slavery throughout the USA. However, the thirteenth amendment included the following clause: “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States.” Jim Crow laws in the past and racial profiling today result in large numbers of African Americans and poor people being incarcerated and subjected to legal slavery. Some were even rented out to the same plantations that had used chattel slaves in the past. But with the U.S. having both the world’s highest number of incarcerated people (2.1 million) and the highest incarceration rate (665 per 100,000), there are plenty of people from all ethnicities who continue to be subjected to legal slavery.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #constitution #slavery #freedom #prison #PrisonIndustrialComplex #jimcrow #racism

Consider what happened in Texas in 2010. As part of a highly publicized revamp of the state social studies curriculum, the Republican-controlled Texas Board of Education removed slavery as the central cause of the Civil War and replaced it with states' rights and secession, with Republican board member Patricia Hardy calling slavery "an after issue." The Republican members also considered referring to the slave trade as the "Atlantic Triangular Trade" before finally settling on "Transatlantic Slave Trade."

The new curriculum was silent on the KKK during Reconstruction and failed to mention the Jim Crow era at all. It also equated Confederate President Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln.

In addition, the curriculum claimed that Joseph McCarthy was correct when he said the U.S. government had been infiltrated by communists in the 1950s, included lessons on why the U.S. needs to return to the gold standard, and asserted that the United Nations, International Criminal Court, and global environmental initiatives undermined U.S. sovereignty. And it scrubbed any mention of Thomas Jefferson's role in U.S. history because he advocated for the separation of church and state.

https://www.facingsouth.org/2019/04/twisted-sources-how-confederate-propaganda-ended-souths-schoolbooks

#confederacy
#confederate
#LostCause
#UnitedDaughtersOfTheConfederacy #UDC
#slavery
#education
#textbooks
#censorship
#BookBans
#Lincoln
#Jefferson
#McCarthyism
#UN
#JimCrow
#Texas
#KKK
#ICC
#Reconstruction
#redemption
#racism
#WhiteSupremacy
#GoldStandard (yes, the clamour for the gold standard is part of white supremacy OMG no-one told me)