Imane Khelif and the history of masculinizing Black and brown women

Banned Histories of Race in America

America was named after Amerigo Vespucci, an Italian explorer, pimp and con man. Make of that what you will, but Amerigo was also one hell of a storyteller. And he never let the truth get in the way of a good story, or an effective one, anyway. Like, in 1502, he wrote to his famous patron Lorenzo de’ Medici about meeting a group of native women somewhere off the coast of what is now South America: