Black Study in a Time of Trouble: A Reading List
June 4, 2020
—Joshua M. Myers
The beauty of Blackness is its capacity for regard and wonder, even in the times of trouble. It is how we have lived.
Category: Race & Ethnicity
Excerpt from Antiracism: An Introduction by Alex Zamalin
Read several excerpts from Alex Zamalin’s book Antiracism: An Introduction
A Lesson for Zoom Elementary
June 3, 2020
—Candis Watts Smith
This is the last week of COVID crisis-schooling for many of us, and there’s one more lesson that we should teach our children and remind ourselves before we move into a camp-less summer: racism isn’t over there or back then, it’s right where you live, right now.
Fear of Muslims in American Society
October 31, 2019
—Ann Gordon, L. Edward Day, Christopher D. Bader, and Joseph O. Baker
The authors of Fear Itself pull data from their Chapman University survey on American fear of Muslim Americans and Islam
Fear of Immigration
October 30, 2019
—Ann Gordon, L. Edward Day, Christopher D. Bader, and Joseph O. Baker
The authors of Fear Itself pull data from their Chapman University survey on American fear of Immigration
Trump, Warren & the Native Origins Controversy: White Racial Politics Right and Left
September 24, 2019
—Enid Logan
This controversy provides a window into several different dimensions of the US racial landscape at this time, refracted through the lens of electoral politics.
The Links between Slavery, Policing, and Racism
July 30, 2019
—Jennifer E. Cobbina There is a long and mainly unresolved history of government using violence to establish and maintain relations of racial domination and subordination. However, as a nation, we… READ MORE
Fat Phobia Affects Everyone
May 15, 2019
—Sabrina Strings
Today, there is no community in America that can claim to be untouched by the twin regulatory forces of thin privilege and fat stigma.