Why Portland Is So ‘Antifa’

Emily Pothast
6 min readSep 5, 2020

Oregon’s history of radical resistance is directly linked to its racist roots

photo: Oregon Historical Society

In the first episode of the HBO series Lovecraft Country, the three main characters find themselves in a sundown town—a community where Black people could find themselves arrested, or even killed, if they were found to be outside past sundown. The phrase trended on Twitter, where many white people revealed that they were learning of the…

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Emily Pothast

Artist and historian. PhD student researching religion, material culture, media, and politics. emilypothast.com