A Critique of Black Capitalism in an American Horror Film
The film, Candyman (1992), is a Blaxploitation film, a reactional Black revenge story that seeks to challenge white racism, privilege,
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Enshrining Black Countermodernism & New Deal Skepticism
J.J. Butts’ new work, Dark Mirror: African Americans and the Federal Writers’ Project, provides a close reading of the ways …
Black Administrative Politics and the Question of the US State
In his book Administering Freedom, labor organizer and historian Dale Kretz asks how formerly enslaved Black people made freedom meaningful through …
The Legal History of Travel Discrimination
Many of us take for granted the ease of our particular American-style mobility. We can go wherever we want to, …
