Reflections on Race, Diaspora, and Nation
“People of African descent, wherever they reside, should always be mindful that national struggles can never be disentangled from diasporic
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The Ruth Simms Hamilton African Diaspora Series: An Interview with Quito Swan and Glenn Chambers
In today’s post, I sit down with Professors Quito Swan and Glenn Chambers to discuss their book series on the
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First Strike: A New Book on Educational Enclosures in Black Los Angeles
This post is part of a blog series I am editing, which announces the release of selected new works in African
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Mass Incarceration and Its Mystification: A Review of The 13th
When prisoners in Alabama last spring proposed a national strike to protest “prison slavery,” they called out the infamous clause
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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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