Calvin Schermerhorn
Author of The Plunder of Black America: How the Racial Wealth Gap Was Made (2025) @yalepress. From Southern Maryland🍂. Teaches history in Arizona 🌵
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- Thanks @ashleyrparker.bsky.social for the requiem of The Washington Post. I too grew up reading it-and delivering it-in MD as a kid. My Dad would read aloud the Style invitational, book reviews & animal stories. I'll miss what Bezos wasted but treasure what it was www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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- Thank you @joelegoza.bsky.social for a brilliant review in the L.A. Review of Books: lareviewofbooks.org/article/raci...
- "The stories hit on almost all of the factors that contribute to our nation’s imbalance in racial wealth....this list takes on the flesh and blood of family life—stats become stories, & we must reckon not simply with what happened but also with the real people it happened to"-@joelegoza.bsky.social
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- Out now, The American Revolution and the Fate of the World by @rickbell.bsky.social A wide angle view of a global event that never loses focus on the Revolution itself. Check it out! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/752265...
- Now out! Without Fear: Black Women & the Making of Human Rights — Keisha Blain’s brilliant new book tells a 200-year history of Black women who fought for human rights from enslavement through the activists against police violence in our time. Check it out: wwnorton.com/books/978039...
- Congratulations and happy Pub Day to @ktgerbs.bsky.social "Archival Irruptions" tells a new history of Obeah, an Afro-Caribbean religion that was criminalized in 1760 after the largest slave revolt in the 18th century British Empire www.dukeupress.edu/archival-irr...
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- "the only way to understand this country—the only way to love this country—is to tell the truth....that chattel slavery,which lasted in the British American colonies & then the American nation for nearly 250 years, was indeed quite bad" @clintsmithiii.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
- "the only way to understand this country—the only way to love this country—is to tell the truth about it. . . . chattel slavery, which lasted in the British American colonies and then the American nation for nearly 250 years, was indeed quite bad." -Clint Smith www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
- “every apparent step forward is matched by a quiet reversion—each gain followed by a new, more elusive form of loss. Redlining gives way to ‘predatory inclusion’….School desegregation in the cities sparks white flight“ -Idrees Kahloon on The Plunder of Black America www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
- Reposted by Calvin SchermerhornOne reason so many American hospitals are struggling? Investors buy them up, then suck them dry, charging such high rents that services are gutted. Reveal explores what happened to one Louisiana hospital when Medical Properties Trust came to town. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
- Reposted by Calvin SchermerhornLooking for heroes, you say? Let us introduce you to the abortion rights activists who took on Alabama's attorney general—and won. So many lessons here for the post-Roe era. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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- “Morrison came to appreciate the power of directly exploring the inner and outer dimensions of Black life….Morrison’s mode was to be relentlessly demanding—of herself, her authors, and her Random House colleagues.” —@clintsmithiii.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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- When Canada was the Promised Land: What Canada Taught America about Freedom and Inclusive Democracy "From Canada, black authors were able to read, write, & proclaim injustices free from persecution in America" #BlackPast #Canada #BlackHistory @yalepress.bsky.social yalebooks.yale.edu/2025/06/04/w...
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- “If a billionaire bought one of your local haunts,renamed it,humiliated the employees,brought back ppl who’d been banned for harassing other regulars,eliminated basic rules of decency..taking your business elsewhere wouldbe perfectly rational”@cwarzel.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
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- I taught Reed and Story's "Fifteen Cents on the Dollar" in my class on the history of racial economic inequities in America. It's a brilliant yet challenging book; its subtle message is that the centuries-long racial wealth and income divide is extremely hard to narrow as their subjects discovered.
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- @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social excerpts "The Plunder of Black America: How the Racial Wealth Gap Was Made" in a recent substack: www.americaamerica.news/p/plundering... Full disclosure: I wrote the book and thank Steven tremendously for the piece!
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- Reposted by Calvin SchermerhornApril 28, 2025: Migrants are making SOS signs out of their bodies so drones can see them at our country's concentration camps.
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- What did racism have to do with the Eaton fire's destruction in California? I dug into the city's history with a little help from UCLA's Bunche Center, which explored the data: chicagodefender.com/how-racism-f... @theconversation.com
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- Revealing: the work of enslaved carpenters whose expertise is revealed 250+ years later at Mount Vernon during a renovation. I wrote about one of them, Morris, who worked on George Washington’s 1759 reno and managed Dogue Run farm for 20 years all while enslaved. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
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- How racism fueled the Eaton Fire’s destruction in Altadena. In the fire prone city, homeowner groups blocked Black buyers, who gained a toehold in the 1960s-70s before being priced out in the 90s. Older homes on smaller lots with aging owners were likelier to burn theconversation.com/how-racism-f...
- Reposted by Calvin SchermerhornMark my words and please understand: They erase your history so that they can erase your rights.
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- Reposted by Calvin Schermerhorn🔥 OBAMA: “IMAGINE IF I HAD DONE ANY OF THIS… I say this not on a partisan basis. This has to do with something more precious — who are we as a country, and what values do we stand for?” 🇺🇸
- If you’re not following @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social or reading his substack America, America! it’s time…
- Check out Mississippi Free Press. A great follow!
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