Why the Academic Achievement Gap is a Racist Idea
“Standardized tests have become the most effective racist weapon ever devised to objectively degrade Black minds and legally exclude their
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Why are Trump Supporters Trying to Spark another Civil War?
As outrageous new events on the campaign trail assault us every day, it is becoming easy to accept the absurdities
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Teaching Quilombismo: An Afro-Brazilian Political Philosophy
In 1980, Abdias do Nascimento, one of Brazil’s greatest black activists and intellectuals, published a seminal essay titled “Quilombismo: An Afro-Brazilian
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Haiti and the Atlantic World: An Interview with Julia Gaffield
This month, I interviewed Julia Gaffield about her new book, Haitian Connections in the Atlantic World: Recognition after Revolution (University
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Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive: An Interview with Marisa Fuentes
In this interview, guest blogger Emily A. Owens sits down with Marisa Fuentes to discuss her new book, Dispossessed Lives:
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