Bringing Archives of Death and Life into the Classroom
This fall I am teaching African American History Since 1863, starting with the event of Emancipation as a legal-juridical happening
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Higher Education
African Americans and the Classics: An Introduction
The history of African American engagement with Classical history, literature, and philosophy has been fraught with controversy and complexity. Much
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White Fragility, Anti-Racist Pedagogy, and the Weight of History
by Justin Gomer and Christopher Petrella On July 3, The Boston Globe published a controversial, if predictable, op-ed entitled “In
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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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On Government Handouts: Sports Stadiums or Schools?
*Co-authored by Justin Gomer and Jackson Hille This March, the Oakland Raiders of the National Football League (NFL) finalized a
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