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On the Laughable Origins of the Far Right’s Beloved “Great Replacement Theory”
How a fringe idea made its way from rural France to the heart of American power.
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Ibram X. Kendi
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Literary Hub
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March 18, 2026
'Working Class' Does Not Equal 'White'
What it means to be a Black worker in the time since slavery.
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Ibram X. Kendi
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Blair LM Kelley
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The Atlantic
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August 7, 2023
The American Nightmare
To be black and conscious of anti-black racism is to stare into the mirror of your own extinction.
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Ibram X. Kendi
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The Atlantic
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June 1, 2020
The Hopefulness and Hopelessness of 1619
Marking the 400-year African American struggle to survive and to be free of racism.
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Ibram X. Kendi
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The Atlantic
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August 20, 2019
A Lynch Mob of One
The assault rifle has enabled racists to act alone.
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Ibram X. Kendi
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The Atlantic
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August 8, 2019
What to an American Is the Fourth of July?
Power comes before freedom, not the other way around.
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Ibram X. Kendi
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The Atlantic
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July 4, 2019
A House Still Divided
In 1858, Lincoln warned that America could not remain “half slave and half free.” The threat today is as existential as it was before the Civil War.
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The Atlantic
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September 13, 2018
The Soul of W. E. B. Du Bois
Reflecting on the tremendous impact of "The Souls of Black Folk," on the 150th anniversary of Du Bois' birth.
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Ibram X. Kendi
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The Paris Review
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February 14, 2018
Trump Sounds Ignorant of History. But Racist Ideas Often Masquerade as Ignorance.
The White House's fumbling about slavery and the Civil War fits a long pattern in American politics.
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Ibram X. Kendi
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Washington Post
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November 13, 2017
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What Would Jefferson Say About White Supremacists Descending Upon his University?
Jefferson had a complicated relationship with white supremacy.
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Ibram X. Kendi
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Made By History
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August 13, 2017
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The Civil Rights Act was a Victory Against Racism. But Racists Also Won.
The bill unleashed a poisonous idea: that America had defeated racism.
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Ibram X. Kendi
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Made By History
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July 2, 2017
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Chain of Ideas
: The Origins of Our Authoritarian Age
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2026
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Stamped From the Beginning
: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
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2016
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One of the Nation’s Leading Scholars of Racism, Says Education and Love Are Not the Answer
A profile of Ibram X. Kendi, the founder of American University's new anti-racism center.
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Lonnae O'Neal
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Andscape
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September 20, 2017
Can Standardized Testing Escape Its Racist Past?
High-stakes testing has struggled with overt and implicit biases. Should it still have a place in modern education?
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Deborah Blum
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UnDark
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December 14, 2022
Race and Enlightenment: The Story of a Slander
A rebuttal to Ibram X. Kendi's assertion that modern racism had its origins in the 1690 writings of John Locke.
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Holly Brewer
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Liberties Journal
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October 5, 2021
Sam Harris, Charles Murray, and the Allure of Race Science
This is not "forbidden knowledge." It is America’s most ancient justification for bigotry and racial inequality.
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Ezra Klein
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Vox
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March 27, 2018
Bridging the Gap
A new book portrays five American historians who published popular books that sacrificed neither intellectual depth nor political bite.
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Michael Kazin
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New York Review of Books
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June 5, 2025
Zora Neale Hurston’s Rediscovered Novel
A new publication obscures the canonical writer.
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Tiana Reid
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The Yale Review
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March 11, 2025
Popular History
What role do we really want history to be playing in our public life? And is the history we have actually doing that work?
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Scott Spillman
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The Point
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September 29, 2024
The Texas Historical Commission Removed Books on Slavery From Plantation Gift Shops
An agency spokesperson claimed that the move had nothing to do with politics. Internal emails show otherwise.
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Steven Monacelli
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Texas Monthly
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December 7, 2023
Howard Zinn and the Politics of Popular History
The controversial historian drew criticism from both left and right. We need more like him today.
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Nick Witham
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The Chronicle of Higher Education
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July 17, 2023
Structures of Belonging and Nonbelonging
A Spanish-language pamphlet by Cotton Mather explodes the Black-versus-white binary that dominates most discussions of race in our time.
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Joseph Rezek
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Los Angeles Review of Books
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February 1, 2023
‘Hell, Yes, We Are Subversive’
For all her influence as an activist, intellectual, and writer, Angela Davis has not always been taken as seriously as her peers. Why not?
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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
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New York Review of Books
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September 1, 2022
A Usable Past for a Post-American Nation
We are living through a time when we cannot take our shared identity—and therefore our shared stories—for granted.
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Johann N. Neem
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The Hedgehog Review
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July 8, 2022
Market Solutions to Ancient Sins
Freedom and prosperity are the most effective cure for the scars of slavery and racism.
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Jason Jewell
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Law & Liberty
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June 28, 2022
Why Teachers Are Afraid to Teach History
The attacks on CRT have terrified our educators. But the public school system has always made it hard to teach controversial subjects.
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Rachel Cohen
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The New Republic
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March 28, 2022
What the 1619 Project Means
Nothing could be more toxic to our ongoing effort to build a multiracial democracy than to cast any race as a perennial hero or villain.
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Helen Andrews
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First Things
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January 23, 2022
The 1619 Project and the Demands of Public History
The ambitious Times endeavor reveals the difficulties that greet a journalistic project when it aspires to shift a founding narrative of the past.
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Lauren Michele Jackson
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The New Yorker
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December 8, 2021
Inside the Fight Over What Kids Learn About America's History
The debate over how to teach the history of race in the U.S. is entangling local school boards and engulfing national politics.
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Olivia B. Waxman
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TIME
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July 16, 2021
Jan. 6 Was a "Turning Point" in American History
Pulitzer-winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed reflects on the battle for the past and the fragile state of American democracy.
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Annette Gordon-Reed
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Chauncey DeVega
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Salon
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July 12, 2021
To Understand the History Wars, Follow the Paper Trail
The history of racism, slavery and its impacts on American society is essential and appropriate for school history classes.
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James Grossman
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Jeremy C. Young
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The Hill
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July 5, 2021
American Journalism’s Role in Promoting Racist Terror
History must be acknowledged before justice can be done.
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Channing Gerard Joseph
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The Nation
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April 19, 2021
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