Is Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome Stamped from the Beginning?
This post was inspired by Professor Ibram X. Kendi’s insightful AAIHS critique of Professor Joy DeGruy’s equally insightful book Post
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Racism
Making Jokes and History in An Octoroon
Last weekend I saw a performance of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins‘ play An Octoroon, which is a reimagining of Dion Boucicault’s The
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Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome is a Racist Idea
For a generation of open-minded Americans, the original Roots miniseries in 1977 uprooted fields of racist ideas of backward Africa,
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Why We Must Remember: Reflecting on the Charleston Massacre One Year Later
On June 17, 2015, a white supremacist walked into the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church in Charleston, South Carolina,
Read moreThe Pre-History of President Clinton’s Racist (and Antiracist) Liberalism
About a week ago, former President Bill Clinton once again had to defend his 1994 crime bill at an event
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