Tag: Race

It's at the heart of what makes The Black Jacobins a classic.

How a little-understood feature of urban finance—municipal bonds—fuels racial inequality.

The late South African intellectual and activist—imprisoned on Robben Island alongside Nelson Mandela—fought for a world without race and class. His writings remain essential.

The novel Kindred reminds us—emphatically, gruesomely—that white supremacy is us too.

N'Kosi Oates speaks with J.T. Roane about Philadelphia's spatial politics and resistance to racial containment.

Thelonious Monk lost (and found) in Paris.

Financial Times commentator Martin Wolf says "it's the economy, stupid." The truth is more complicated.

What does it mean for those living in the diaspora to remain attached to the land they left behind?

Revisiting When Affirmative Action Was White, nearly two decades on.

Institutional reform is no match for pervasive structural inequality.

In the Black existentialist tradition, freedom lies in the constant struggle for liberation.

When Desmond Tutu reconciled African theology and Black theology.

A sharp uptick in challenges to U.S. antidiscrimination laws threatens decades of progress in extending civil rights to all.

Historian Gerald Horne has developed a grand theory of U.S. history as a series of devastating backlashes to progress—right down to the present day.

Robin D. G. Kelley on the midterm elections.

A posthumous collection tracks Noel Ignatiev’s commitment to class struggle, abolishing whiteness, and finding a vision of freedom in the minds and actions of working people.

The recent electoral success of a party with Nazi origins must be understood as part of the long history of white Swedes’ desire for racial homogeneity.

Harm reduction strategies, like those pioneered by queer men of color, have the best chance of stopping this disease.

Freedom means a world where how I parent is simply mundane rather than overburdened with meaning. 

And what today’s organizers can learn from them.

Draconian individual punishment distracts from systemic change and reinforces the cruelest and most racist system of incarceration on the planet.

Robin D. G. Kelley published his pathbreaking history of the Black radical imagination in 2002. Where are we two decades later?

The strategy of “leaderless resistance” has allowed white power activists to disguise the extent of their organizing.

Its illegitimacy goes far beyond the war on drugs.

The language of universal rights can be a powerful tool for advancing social justice.

Younger voices are using technology to respond to the needs of marginalized communities and nurture Black healing and liberation.

David Hogg and Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz discuss replacement theory, the gunman’s manifesto, and how we organize against violent white supremacy.

Though a means of escaping and undermining racial injustice, the practice comes with own set of costs and sacrifices.

Pioneering Afro-Brazilian geographer Milton Santos sought to redeem the field from its methodological fragmentation and colonial legacies.

A recording and transcript of our event on inequities in medicine and child welfare.

King could not accomplish what philosophers and theologians also failed to—distinguishing moral from immoral law in a polarized society.

Kemi Alabi’s Against Heaven answers generations of spiritual violence and threatened damnation with reclamation, repopulation, and a redefinition of heaven.

By casting doubt on multiracial working-class solidarity, Jay Caspian Kang's critique of professional identity politics fails on its own terms.

The system's roots aren't in rescuing children, but in the policing of Black, Indigenous, and poor families.

Laws controlling what schools teach about race and gender show an awareness that classrooms are sites of nation-building. During the Cold War, El Paso public schools knew this too when they taught the children of former Nazis how to be white Americans.