Russell Rickford - AAIHS

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

It is never easy to be a critical intellectual in a bourgeois democracy—a society that professes egalitarian values while aggressively

“Poetry is not a luxury.” — Audre Lorde America horrifies me. Its savagery and vulgarity. Its appetite for racial terror.

Who knew an act of civic engagement could produce such exhilaration and ambivalence? A few weeks ago I attended a

This post is part of our online forum, “Remembering Malcolm,” edited by Garrett Felber. “No problem can be solved from the same