Yellow-Faced Minstrelsy
Monday, February 6, 2012
Since Barack Obama became president in 2009, some Republicans have gone seriously retro - like the woman at the Newt Gingrich rally who congratulated the candidate for putting a black journalist \"in his place,\" or the Georgia Congressman, Lynn Westmoreland, who in September 2008 described Oba.. .. read more..
Little Pink Ribbons For You And Me
Saturday, February 4, 2012
The Susan G. Komen Foundation has officially become the \"New Coke\" of breast cancer charities. This satirical letter from the leaders of the Komen Foundation is making the rounds on Facebook: Normal 0 0 1 224 1280 University of Texas 10 2 1571 11.1539 0 0 0 \"We want to apologize to the American.. .. read more..
Palin, I Wish We Hardly Knew Ye
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
If you needed any further evidence of how completely irrelevant Sarah Palin has become, note that she urged Florida Republican voters to support Gingrich and they said no. By the way, ratings for Fox when she\'s on are pretty bad and her reality show bombed. Unless she says something that causes rea.. .. read more..
A Note About Black History Month
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
I always tell my students that black history is American history -- that African Americans were central players from the beginning and in virtually every major national drama since. I don\'t do anything special for the month, because I think that anyone who teaches history and doesn\'t bring the stor.. .. read more..
Where Are You, Tim Tebow?
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
According to The Raw Story, the International Labor Rights Forum (ILRF) will run an ad on a jumbotron screen just outside Lucas Oil Stadium In Indianapolis during the Super Bowl called “Hershey’s Chocolate: Kissed by Child Labor. ” The ad will highlight Hershey\'s exploitation of child slave la.. .. read more..
Intellectual Theft
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
The band Rage Against the Machine wants their cool back, Sarah Palin. Michael Phillips is the author or co-author of the following books: “White Metropolis: Race, Ethnicity and Religion in Dallas, Texas, 1841-2001” (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006). “The House Will Come to Order: How the Tex.. .. read more..
Books You Might Have Missed: A Review of \"Mean Things Happening in this Land: Th..
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Normal 0 0 1 513 2927 University of Texas 24 5 3594 11.1539 0 0 0 MeanThings Happening in this Land: The Life and Times of H. L. Mitchell, Co-founderof the Southern Tenant Farmers Union . ByH. L. Mitchell (1979; rev. ed., Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2008. Pp.xviii, 403. Index. $19.95 pape.. .. read more..
How Did Black People Become Democrats and Republicans Racists? Part III
Monday, January 30, 2012
Here is the third and final installment on the origins of GOP racism. As he plotted his political comeback in 1968, former Vice President Richard Nixon watched with intense interest and fear the career of segregationist Alabama Gov. George Wallace, who had performed surprisingly well in Northern De.. .. read more..
How Did Blacks Become Democrats and Republicans Racists? Part II
Saturday, January 28, 2012
The last time African Americans in significant numbers seriously considered voting for a Republican candidate was in the 1960 showdown between Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy. Both candidates largely overlooked the civil rights struggle in the 1960 election. Several signs pointed to a.. .. read more..
Books You May Have Missed: Review of \"Yeoman, Sharecroppers, and Socialists: Pla..
Saturday, January 28, 2012
Normal 0 0 1 510 2910 University of Texas 24 5 3573 11.1539 0 0 0 Yeoman, Sharecroppers, andSocialists: Plain Folk Protest in Texas, 1870-1914 . By Kyle G. Wilkison. (College Station: Texas A&M University,2008. x,297, pp. Paper, $40, ISBN-13:978—1-60344-065-3.) Supplementing exhaustive archivalrese.. .. read more..
How Did African Americans Become Democrats and Republicans Become Racists?
Thursday, January 26, 2012
I have created a new blog called the \"Internet Republican Racism Database.\" Below is the first post on that blog. I will continue to cross-post between The Red State Blues and the Database until the November election. This site is devoted to one thesis: that in the age of Obama, the Rep.. .. read more..
Earl Rudder And Breaking The Color Barrier at Texas A&M
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Normal 0 0 1 4536 25856 University of Texas 215 51 31752 11.1539 0 0 0 A Texas farm boy, James Earl Rudder becameinternationally famous as a D-Day hero. A deeply conservative man wholacked the proper academic credentials, he nevertheless ruled as president ofTexas A&M when the tradition-bound.. .. read more..
Re; Obama\'s State of the Union Speech
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Normal 0 0 1 359 2050 University of Texas 17 4 2517 11.1539 0 0 0 I wish Obama had made this State ofthe Union address three years ago. He’d be in much better shape today if he had been this assertive. I likedthe call tonight to punish unfair trading practices by China, to reward companiesfo.. .. read more..
Earl Rudder and the Era of \"Radical Change\" at Texas A&M
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
A Texas farmboy, James Earl Rudder became internationally famous as a D-Day hero. Adeeply conservative man who lacked the proper academic credentials, henevertheless ruled as president of Texas A&M when the tradition-boundschool underwent sweeping reforms. Under Rudder, A&M changed itsn.. .. read more..
Keep up the pressure
Friday, January 20, 2012
I think the pressure from Progressives who didn\'t vow their support for Obama in 2012, no mater what, has had an important effect in the last two weeks on the president\'s new order to close Guantanamo, his decision to halt (for now at least) the Keystone Pipeline, and his decision today to not allow.. .. read more..
Completely Newt-ered
Friday, January 20, 2012
So in India, to protest the often brutal custom of grooms\' families demanding dowries from brides, a Mumbai dating service has created an app called \"Angry Brides\" based on the popular game \'Angry Birds.\" I\'m designing a game based on Newt Gingrich called \"Angry Ex-Wives.\" Michael Phillips is the au.. .. read more..
Gender Desegregation: Earl Rudder and When Texas A&M Became Co-Ed
Saturday, January 14, 2012
A Texas farm boy, James Earl Rudder became internationally famous as a D-Day hero. A deeply conservative man who lacked the proper academic credentials, he nevertheless ruled as president of Texas A&M when the tradition-bound school underwent sweeping reforms. Under Rudder, A&M changed its name, des.. .. read more..
Earl Rudder, Hypermasculinity, and the Culture of Texas A&M University
Friday, January 13, 2012
A Texas farm boy, James Earl Rudder became internationally famous as a D-Day hero. A deeply conservative man who lacked the proper academic credentials, he nevertheless ruled as president of Texas A&M when the tradition-bound school underwent sweeping reforms. Under Rudder, A&M changed its name, des.. .. read more..
New Hampshire Mittwits
Monday, January 9, 2012
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney was rushed to a New Hampshire hospital today after experiencing what doctors later described as a \"brief but potentially dangerous moment of sincerity.\" Campaign insiders said this was likely brought on by a brutal schedule that left Romney little time to sleep... .. read more..
Scandal, 1950s Texas Style: Allan Shivers, Earl Rudder and the Veterans Land Swi..
Monday, January 9, 2012
A Texas farm boy, James Earl Rudder became internationally famous as a D-Day hero. A political outsider, he cleaned house as Commissioner of the Texas General Land Office after one of the messiest scandals in the state\'s often corrupt political history. A deeply conservative man who lacked the prope.. .. read more..