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How Immigrants Became Scapegoats in the United Kingdom

November 13, 2020November 9, 2020 Gabrielle Mauriello African Diaspora, Blacks in Britain, book review, immigrant, Immigration, race, racism

In Hostile Environment: How Immigrants Became Scapegoats, Maya Goodfellow sets out to explain how decades of restrictive British policies and

Black Radical Activists and the Dangers of the Police State

November 11, 2020November 9, 2020 Denise Lynn Black political thought, black politics, class, Communism, police brutality, police violence, policing, prisons, race, Racial Capitalism, racism

During recent anti-police brutality protests and marches across the United States, American police forces have displayed the very behavior that

Online Roundtable: Garrett Felber’s ‘Those Who Know Don’t Say’

November 9, 2020November 17, 2020 AAIHS Editors #ThoseWhoKnow, carceral state, mass incarceration

November 16-20, 2020 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is collaborating with the Journal of Civil

From Duvalier to Trump: Authoritarian Rule and Transfers of Power

October 22, 2020October 21, 2020 Patrick D. Bellegarde-Smith Donald Trump, Trumpism

My PTSD seems to be back. I can scarcely watch the news. In the day, I easily spent five to

A Black Immigrant Experience during the COVID-19 Pandemic

October 15, 2020October 15, 2020 Jasmaine Brathwaite #Autoethnographies, African Diaspora, COVID-19, immigrant, New York

Editor’s note: This essay is part of our two-week blog series, featuring eight autoethnographies from students at Brooklyn College. Read