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Tag: Race

Lewis Gordon and Nathalie Etoke discuss the space for freedom opened up by Black existentialist thought.

Nathalie Etoke, Lewis Gordon

Melvin Rogers and Neil Roberts discuss the difficulty of keeping faith in a foundationally anti-Black republic.

Neil Roberts, Melvin Rogers

Mie Inouye and Daniel Martinez HoSang discuss the challenges of organizing in a society that tears groups apart.

Daniel Martinez HoSang, Mie Inouye

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

David Scott

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

Clark Randall

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

Salim Vally, Enver Motala

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

Junot Díaz

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

J.T. Roane, N’Kosi Oates

Thelonious Monk lost (and found) in Paris.

Robin D. G. Kelley

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

Kenda Mutongi

When Desmond Tutu reconciled African theology and Black theology.

Panashe Chigumadzi, Cornel West

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

Louise Melling

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.

David Waldstreicher

An interview with Robin D. G. Kelley.

Robin D. G. Kelley, Deborah Chasman

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.

Mike King

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.

Tobias Hübinette

Harm reduction strategies have the best chance of stopping this disease.

Joshua Gutterman Tranen

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