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Social Death and Insurgent Discourses in Jordan Peele’s “Get Out”

March 27, 2017March 31, 2017 J. T. Roane Black film, film, Racial Violence, racism

*Editor’s Note: This essay contains spoilers* As Jordan Peele’s blockbuster hit Get Out progresses, Chris Washington (Daniel Kaluuya) discovers that

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Opening the Racist Closets of History: Seven Well-Meaning Americans

March 21, 2017March 25, 2017 Ibram X. Kendi Assimilationism, racism

It seems as if everyone—except his racist supporters—are recognizing the obvious: Donald Trump is a racist. But racism extends far

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Zora Neale Hurston’s Radical Black Love

March 18, 2017March 21, 2017 Guest Poster Harlem Renaissance

by Ayesha Hardison and Randal Maurice Jelks When Zora Neale Hurston published Their Eyes Were Watching God in 1937, she

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The Fugitive Slave Margaret Garner and Tragedy on the Ohio

March 17, 2017March 20, 2017 Nikki Taylor Gender, rape, sexuality, slavery

This is an excerpt from the fourth chapter of Driven Toward Madness: The Fugitive Slave Margaret Garner and Tragedy on

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Race, Belonging, and Unconditional White Amnesty

March 15, 2017March 18, 2017 Christopher F. Petrella Abraham Lincoln, Civil War, Donald Trump, Post-Civil War, reconstruction, white supremacy

At a raucous 2016 campaign rally in Phoenix, Arizona, then-candidate Donald Trump outlined his plan to curb “illegal immigration” and

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