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A Medium account of illustrated history lessons that celebrate and elevate the people excluded from our history textbooks as kids. It started as a daily history illustration series on Instagram, but the complexity and bravery of these stories deserved to be told in full. Check out the Zine page to get a physical copy of stories like these.
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Eugenics in America: The “Science” Behind Racial Superiority
In 1883, English mathematician Francis Galton presented his theories of eugenics to “raise the present miserably low standard of the human race” by “breeding the best with the best.” He believed intelligence was an inherited trait of the wealthy and was abhorred by the high birth rate of the poor.
Cointelpro: How the US Government Dissected Dissent 1956–1977
In Rage Against the Machine’s, “Wake Up,” Zack de la Rocha reads a 1968 FBI memo: “Through counter-intelligence it should be possible to pinpoint potential trouble-makers and neutralize them.” If you ever wondered what that was about, this is the story of that counter-intelligence program.
Before the wall, before the ban: Asian farmworkers were scapegoats too
Before we were labeled a “model minority,” Asian immigrants were also blamed for economic instability, just a few hundred years ago. This is the story of Asian farmworker immigration in California and the Filipino role in protecting farmworker rights.