Mass Incarceration and Its Mystification: A Review of The 13th
When prisoners in Alabama last spring proposed a national strike to protest “prison slavery,” they called out the infamous clause
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Activism
Women, Gender Politics, and Pan-Africanism: An Interview with Keisha N. Blain
In today’s guest post, Kathryn Vaggalis, the managing editor of Women, Gender and Families interviews Keisha N. Blain about the
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Black Women Athletes, Protest, and Politics: An Interview with Amira Rose Davis
The country is now recognizing black athletes as protest leaders and the sports field as a viable space for resistance and
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Teaching Quilombismo: An Afro-Brazilian Political Philosophy
In 1980, Abdias do Nascimento, one of Brazil’s greatest black activists and intellectuals, published a seminal essay titled “Quilombismo: An Afro-Brazilian
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Black Protest, White Backlash, and the History of Scientific Racism
Co-Authored by Christopher Petrella and Justin Gomer “Mainstream culture…defines threats to racial order as a form of madness that is,
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