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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

Fire Suppression, the Carceral State, and Black Ecological Knowledge

November 12, 2020November 9, 2020 Celeste Henery black, Black Ecologies, carceral state, environment, literature, poetry, prisons, race, racism

As I write, major wildfires burn in the state of California. A mixture of droughts, human-altered landscapes, dense vegetation, 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

Black Lives Matter, Hip Hop, and Fighting Racism in The Netherlands

November 10, 2020November 9, 2020 Thomas van Gaalen Activism, African Diaspora, black internationalism, black lives matter, black protest, capitalism, music, racism

The Black Lives Matter protests have sparked many responses from Black musicians—and not just in the United States. On the

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