Michael Lansing Profile picture
@AugsburgU He/him, https://t.co/uDYGikDip6, writing histories of Mpls PD and nutrition capitalism. Half Mugwump/60% New Dealer/90% Populist dirt-roads historian
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May 27, 2020 18 tweets 4 min read
Here's a singular and incomplete historical perspective on the events here in Minneapolis, which reflect both national trends of white supremacy and a particular, local history of the same. A thread. (1) George Floyd's murder took place in the historic Southside neighborhood, a Black working and middle-class neighborhood on the south side of Minneapolis created by housing segregation (via racial covenants) in the 1920s and 1930s and 1940s. @MapPrejudice (2)