Resistance Now and Then
February 1, 2017
—Gerald Horne
African American history provides a textbook for resistance against oppressors and points in a similar direction: that is, to be effective in the U.S., resistance—dialectically—must be global.
Category: African American Studies
All I ever needed to know about election 2016 I learned in Newark
November 17, 2016
—Andra Gillespie
When I reflect on the class debates that are often the subtext of politics in Newark, I see strong parallels between the black nationalist populism of Newark and white working class populism that ushered Donald Trump into the presidency.
Notes for a Film: On Dalton Trumbo’s Johnny Got His Gun and Huey P. Newton; Or, How do you marry thinking about existing social relations alongside categories of reflection if you have no eyes?
September 30, 2016
Jeremy M. Glick on problems of thinking “the whole” in radical thought, and how to calibrate categories of reflection suitable to think about imperialist war.
How racism came to be called a mental illness — and why that’s a problem
June 22, 2016
— James M. Thomas and W. Carson Byrd
Few would disagree that racism deserves condemnation, or that racist people shouldn’t change their views. But arguing that racism constitutes an actual mental illness goes a step further. Racism has long been considered the product of economic, social and political forces, not a mental health disorder. What changed?
Environmental racism Q&A recap
May 4, 2016
On May 3rd, we chatted with Carl Zimring about environmental racism. Here’s a recap of our conversation!
Environmental racism Twitter chat with Carl Zimring
May 2, 2016
On Tuesday, ahead of the President’s visit to Michigan, we will discuss developments in the Flint water crisis and environmental racism with Carl Zimring on Twitter.
Reflections on religion and the Civil Rights Movement
April 5, 2016
—Carolyn Dupont
Racial inequality continues to plague the United States, and most popular civil rights history mythologizes it in ways that hinder the full realization of the movement’s goals.
Tragedy and the Proper Name
March 18, 2016
So much of the way I think about tragedy as a genre and political category comes from the work of Raymond Williams’s Modern Tragedy, in which the critic labors to show how flawed the elitist linguistic divide separating tragedy as a high art (the tragedy of Comparative Literature, English, and Classics curriculums) versus tragedy’s everyday use as signifying a grave event, a calamitous lost.