Thread by @AmericanStudier

I've written a good bit over the years about the #TulsaRaceMassacre, as I (like so many of us) have finally started to learn more about what was sadly not at all a singular event, but certainly an extreme example of our ubiquitous history of racial terrorism. Here's a few:

My first such focused piece was for @werehist in 2015. I didn't know nearly enough about the massacre & its contexts yet, but did have the chance to share my single favorite quote from American lit as part of framing such an event.
werehistory.org/tulsa-riots/

Last year for the massacre's centennial I wrote for my @SatEvePost Considering History column on some of the many layers I've been able to learn & that we all need to engage.
saturdayeveningpost.com/2021/01/consid…

& for the blog I wrote about that stunning, justifiably well-known opening sequence of @watchmen:

americanstudier.blogspot.com/2020/07/july-1…

For a lot more, last year's @BlkPerspectives @AAIHS series on the centennial was full of vital work, starting here:
aaihs.org/the-1921-tulsa…

PS. One definite thing I'd change in that 2015 piece--my title reference to the "Tulsa Riots." The more I've thought about it, the more I think we need to challenge all such "riots" or "race riots" frames for white supremacist violence.
talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/race-riots