Viewed in that lens, what matters isn’t that the case ends with Tubman going on the $20 bill, but that U.S. Scholars in international relations and related fields have long taken seriously how official symbols, like stamps, public architecture, and coins and currency, reflect the institutions that produce them-and the ideas that animate those institutions. There’s another way to look at this story, though. Placing Tubman on the currency-and overturning a Trump decision to block it- will not fix racial wealth disparities or end unjust policing practices, but it is a visible symbol of the administration’s policies and its commitment to the Black women who helped Joe Biden win. Besides measures like canceling the Keystone XL pipeline and rejoining the Paris climate agreement, the administration’s Treasury Department announced that it would speed up the production of $20 bills featuring the 19th-century abolitionist Harriet Tubman, reinstating an Obama administration plan that Trump officials had tried to kill by slow-walking.įor the Biden administration, the decision makes perfect political sense. President Donald Trump’s legacy both substantively and symbolically. In its first week in office, the Biden administration made a series of measures designed to undo former U.S.
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