Robin D. G. Kelley

Robin D. G. Kelley is Distinguished Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair of U.S. History at UCLA and a contributing editor at Boston Review. His many books include Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination.

What Did Cedric Robinson Mean by Racial Capitalism?

A critique that anticipated the political currents of contemporary America.

  • Robin D. G. Kelley

Trump Says Go Back, We Say Fight Back

Economic anxieties are inseparable from whiteness and racism.

  • Robin D. G. Kelley

What Does Black Lives Matter Want?

The ideas in the movement’s new manifesto would enrich our practice of democracy.

  • Robin D. G. Kelley

Generating New Knowledge

Final response: Love as a creative, revolutionary force cannot be reduced to only tending to trauma.

  • Robin D. G. Kelley

Black Study, Black Struggle

The university is not an engine of social transformation. Activism is.

  • Robin D. G. Kelley
with responses from
  • Derecka Purnell
  • Randall L. Kennedy
  • Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
  • Christopher Lebron
  • Barbara Ransby
  • Shana L. Redmond
  • Charlene Carruthers
  • Aaron Bady
  • Michael Eric Dyson
  • Amanda Boston
  • Bridget Todd
  • Thabisile Griffin

Black Study, Black Struggle

  • Robin D. G. Kelley

Big, Glitzy Marches Are Not Movements

In 1963 and today, the real work happens elsewhere.

  • Robin D. G. Kelley

Neoliberalism’s Challenge

Without an anti-racist critique, challenges to neoliberalism will fail.

  • Robin D. G. Kelley

Beautiful Resistance

Revolutionary theater in Palestine.

  • Robin D. G. Kelley

Desegregation Isn’t Integration

  • Robin D. G. Kelley
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