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Tag: Race

During the Cold War, El Paso public schools knew this too when they taught the children of former Nazis how to be white Americans.

Jonna Perrillo

The mystical connection between white Southern nostalgia, the global family values movement, and Russia.

Bethany Moreton
A “woke” remake that peddles in symbolic representation is not the film Puerto Ricans deserve.
Éric Morales-Franceschini

The war in Ukraine is shaped by global neoliberalism, sexism, and racism—not just Cold War dynamics.

Ileana Nachescu
A history of imperial forgetting.
David Roediger
After Roe v. Wade, Angela Davis wrote about how the reproductive rights movement was failing women of color. As Roe is dismantled, her diagnosis is more crucial than ever.
Sara Matthiesen

The authors of Abolition. Feminism. Now. discuss why racialized state violence and gender-based violence have to be fought together.

nia t. evans, Beth E. Richie, Erica R. Meiners, Gina Dent, Angela Y. Davis
Racial redress should be modeled on the global anticolonial tradition of worldbuilding.
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

Robin D. G. Kelley and Bongani Madondo honor the writer's life, work, and legacy.

Bongani Madondo, Robin D. G. Kelley

The militarization of gun culture in the United States reflects an increasingly energetic defense of white rule.

Chad Kautzer
The field is reckoning with a long legacy of racial exclusion, despite its universalist claims.
Douglas Shadle

A recording of a virtual roundtable to honor the life and work of Charles W. Mills.

Derecka Purnell discusses her new book Becoming Abolitionists, how she came to join the movement against policing and prisons, and what a just world looks like.

Derecka Purnell, nia t. evans

Though the organization’s legacy has been domesticated, its grassroots leadership embraced the global fight for freedom.

Dan Berger
A recording of our virtual literary event with three generations of Black women writers.

New York State Rifle & Pistol v. Bruen may give the right—and its politics of racial resentment—a major win,  at the cost of gun control laws known to prevent shootings.

Jonathan M. Metzl

Haitian migrants have been subjected to decades of brutal mistreatment by the U.S. government, much of which unfolded at Cuban detention facilities.

Jeffrey S. Kahn

Imagining a more just society.

Derecka Purnell

Even as they carve out space for Black scholarship, established universities remain deeply complicit in racial capitalism. We must think beyond them.

Jared Loggins, Andrew J. Douglas

Images seized from enslaved people are not private property to be owned but ancestors to be cared for.

Ariella Aïsha Azoulay

Education is not inherently liberatory: it has always been an arena for broader struggles over who has access to knowledge and to what ends learning is put.

Victoria Baena

Toni Morrison’s novels imagine a society governed by an ethic of care, devoted to restoring and repairing those who have been harmed, and giving them the space for transformation.

Farah Jasmine Griffin

A veteran AIDS activist looks back on the 1990s.

Andrew Spieldenner

Gender rarely lives up to our expectations, and a lot of what we think of as gender actually has more to do with race and money.

Kathryn Bond Stockton

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