Helen Andrews
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author @SentinelBooks, site https://t.co/MCWPKMEbtF
Washington, DC
Joined April 2009
Buy the book now, there’s no better time than pub day:
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"Baby Boomers (and I confess I am one): prepare to squirm and shake your increasingly arthritic little fists. For here comes essayist Helen Andrews."--Terry Castle With two recessions and a...
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Further firsthand accounts of DC schools during this period:.
“People have asked me how my white children and colored children got along together… When the colored children first came over, my white children treated them as guests, and they would go and get them desks and chairs and give them pencils and look at them as if to say, ‘Are you
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The book has zero ratings on Goodreads, so in light of its obscurity, here are some excerpts, from the notes I took when I read it several years ago:. “In continuing the analysis of the motives of whites in withdrawing from Negro schools, I think it might be useful to illustrate
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“Danger in Washington: The Story of My Twenty Years in the Public Schools in the Nation’s Capital,” now there’s a deep cut.
(to this list I’d add most recently “Danger in Washington,” a retrospective written by the school superintendent who worked to desegregate Washington, D.C.’s schools)
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RT @G0ADM: I would really encourage everyone that hasn’t to read this - really impressive writeup that exposes just how much the UK got wro….
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RT @pegobry_en: Some right wing billionaire needs to fund a large history of this. I am talking 10+ volumes, each volume 1000+ pages, with….
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It is impossible to imagine any living historian, popular or academic, writing such a book. Every incentive in their profession is against it. So what then?.
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It’s a serious question: Imagine a smart Zoomer, who has been taught that our cities look the way they do because of redlining or something, asked you what he should read to get the true story. What book could you give him? Is there one? Not a polemic, just a basic history.
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I’ve said this before, but it really is bizarre that the basic facts of the demographic transformation of our cities, one of the most consequential events of the last hundred years, are found in viral threads and other online “rabbit holes” and not history textbooks.
During Covid I went down so many rabbit holes. For example I had no idea that whites were ethnically cleaned from cities. Liberal academics of the day documented it. One book was on Rosedale (?) or something like that. It read very much like South Africa today. Just the facts.
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Personally I think white flight from elite institutions is not a good response to this development, but that does seem to be the trend.
@NatHalberstadt Southern colleges are seeing a surge in applications for exactly this reason. Families want their kids to enjoy college, not assimilate into grind culture. This isn’t the only factor but many of these schools have very different demographics than northeastern or California
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More Asians than whites in the Harvard freshman class, assuming whites are 31 percent as arithmetic suggests. And if Asians are overrepresented among the 8 percent of students not reporting a race, their share could be higher than the 37 percent stated below.
BREAKING: Not a single solitary incoming freshman self-identified as White in the Harvard Class of 2028. Or maybe I'm missing something.
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“Master and Commander” gets all the love as a box office failure turned cult favorite, but “In the Heart of the Sea,” Ron Howard’s flop about the whaleship Essex, is equally great. Really starting to believe in the critical conspiracy to deprive us of seafaring movies.
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RT @MelancholyYuga: HR forcibly removing me from the medieval musicology department for asking colleagues if they were gurdying hurd or hur….
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Pakistan is second-to-last globally in percentage of the population that can swim? Interesting. No idea why Rwanda is dead last.
@ursine_meeting Not sure about tout le monde but it hadn't really occurred to me. I think it might be more pronounced with Pakistanis than with the average immigrant in France.
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RT @horvick: Portland Public Schools updated its enrollment forecast. Here is the current forecast compared to past forecasts. The new for….
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RT @CptHastings1916: This feels like one particular genie that isn't going back in its bottle, unless Two-Tier Harmer decides that he wants….
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RT @PenguinSix: DC Police release photo of additional suspect in the DOGE employee "Big Balls" attempted carjacking case. .
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RT @j_a_dill: "Pope is studying German" is the new "pizza joints near the Pentagon are busy".
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RT @arctotherium42: This is a pretty good history of the Ivory Coast, but I found the immigration framing hilarious. "Yes, it led to multip….
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