Revolutionary Optimism in Despicable Times
This post is part of our online forum, “Black October,” on the Russian Revolution and the African Diaspora “Life is not an
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Author: Russell Rickford
From Sentiment to Struggle: Combating White Supremacy and Liberal Idealism
*This post is the transcript of remarks read at the recent Cornell faculty “kneel-in” against racism. Almost any expression of collectivity can
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Neo-McCarthyism and the Radical Professor
It is never easy to be a critical intellectual in a bourgeois democracy—a society that professes egalitarian values while aggressively
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A Reverence for Hope: On Struggle, Faith, and Persistence
“Poetry is not a luxury.” — Audre Lorde America horrifies me. Its savagery and vulgarity. Its appetite for racial terror.
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Radicalizing the Resistance in the Age of Trump
Who knew an act of civic engagement could produce such exhilaration and ambivalence? A few weeks ago I attended a
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