Rodney Coates
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Rodney Coates is a professor of critical race and ethnic studies at Miami University.
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These false ideas promulgated the spread of white supremacy, which has contributed to terrorist attacks, state violence and propaganda campaigns in the U.S and parts of Europe.
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This is not the first period in U.S. history when white men have exercised control over women’s right to bear – or not bear – children, including during slavery.
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These events have been shown to be a form of “white backlash” working to keep Black officeholders out of power and their constituents powerless without representation.