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Jessica Viñas-Nelson

Jessica Viñas-Nelson is an assistant professor in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University where she teaches African American History. She received her PhD from The Ohio State University and studies African American intellectual debates and identity formation.

For more from Jessica Viñas-Nelson in Origins, see: 

Top Ten: White Supremacist Violence

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Crime scene with police tape
White Supremacist Violence – An Origins Top ten
The so-called "Elgin Marbles," on display in the British Museum
Classics and the Alt-Right Conundrum
IRA gunmen in Northern Ireland
From the Cold War to the War on Terror
Mushroom cloud over the Bikini Atoll
Nuclear Tensions, Nuclear Weapons, and a Long History of Nuclear War
National Memorial for Peace and Justice exhibit, Montgomery AL
Confederates and Lynching in American Public Memory
Protesters with signs in support of immigrants: "We are all here thanks to immigrants", "If you don't want immigrants, stop destabilizing their countries"; "Defend DACA"
Honduras, TPS, and U.S. Policy
People holding signs: "More Mental Health Care + Less Jail Time" and "Support Mental Health - It's the Right Thing to Do"
Mental Health and American Society
Free speech march at Ohio State University in the mid-20th century
Politics and Protest on College Campuses
Women at the Women's March in DC with signs: "Can't Believe We STILL Have to Protest", "Keep your Hands and Laws Off my Body", "RAPE CULTURE" with a line through it
The Long History of #MeToo
Royal Irish Rifles in foxhole at Battle of the Somme, 1916
Legacies of the Great War
Colin Kaepernick and teammates kneeling
The Long View of Sports Protests
Lenin waving flag in front of crowd of workers and soldiers
From Romanovs to Reds: Russia's Revolutions at 100
A rhino standing on the beach
The Sixth Extinction and Our Unraveling World
1864 depiction of the Fort Pillow Massacre in Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper
Ten Moments of White Supremacist Violence in U.S. History
Border Fence/Wall
Shifting Borders: The Many Sides of U.S.-Mexican Relations
Richard and Mildred Loving
Interracial Marriage in "Post-Racial" America
A Church in Novgorod Russia
Russia and the World
A map of the US night sky, showing points of population density
Fault Lines: The Urban-Rural Divide in America
Marchers for the Equal Rights Amount, holding banner that reads "Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex"
The Equal Rights Amendment: Then and Now
Tiger
Caged: Humans and Animals at the Zoo
Person on horseback faces line of police and military vehicles
Native Sovereignty and the Dakota Access Pipeline
Haze obscuring image of rooftops in China
The Greening of China?
Tanks and soldiers in parade in Pyongyang
North Korea: The Myth of a Hermit Kingdom
Voting booths
America's Post-Election Political Landscape

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