From Sentiment to Struggle: Combating White Supremacy and Liberal Idealism
*This post is the transcript of remarks read at the recent Cornell faculty “kneel-in” against racism. Almost any expression of collectivity can
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The Subversive Praxis of Black Beauty and Wealth
Having rocked the cosmetics industry last month with her new line of products, Fenty Beauty, pop star Rihanna (née Robyn
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White Supremacy, Nazism, and the Republican Party
This past summer, hundreds of white supremacists and neo-Nazis mobilized in Charlottesville, Virginia to prove a point — that they were always here and
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The Black Press and the Ku Klux Klan
“Crouching, cringing, shrinking from both physical and intellectual light,” Chandler Owen wrote, “the Klan is a true anthropoid germ which
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Beyond Monuments: African Americans Contesting Civil War Memory
As monuments to white supremacists, slavery-defenders, and Confederate leaders continue to be torn down by politicians or by the people’s
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