Jill Lepore discusses the wave of book bannings that is sweeping the country, and how the “anti-anti racism” movement is like the anti-evolution campaign of the 1920s. Listen here.
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,” seems like a backlash against the heightened racial consciousness of the post-George Floyd era. The historian and staff writer Jill Lepore sees these conflicts as the continuation of an old dynamic. She relates today’s “anti-anti-racism” movement to the anti-evolution campaign of the nineteen-twenties, which included the prosecution of a Tennessee teacher for teaching Darwin’s theory in a high-school class.
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