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During the Cold War, El Paso public schools knew this too when they taught the children of former Nazis how to be white Americans.
The mystical connection between white Southern nostalgia, the global family values movement, and Russia.
The war in Ukraine is shaped by global neoliberalism, sexism, and racism—not just Cold War dynamics.
The authors of Abolition. Feminism. Now. discuss why racialized state violence and gender-based violence have to be fought together.
Robin D. G. Kelley and Bongani Madondo honor the writer's life, work, and legacy.
The militarization of gun culture in the United States reflects an increasingly energetic defense of white rule.
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.
Though the organization’s legacy has been domesticated, its grassroots leadership embraced the global fight for freedom.
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.
Haitian migrants have been subjected to decades of brutal mistreatment by the U.S. government, much of which unfolded at Cuban detention facilities.
Even as they carve out space for Black scholarship, established universities remain deeply complicit in racial capitalism. We must think beyond them.
Images seized from enslaved people are not private property to be owned but ancestors to be cared for.
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.
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.
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.
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