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Managed Democracy and the Illusion of Politics

October 23, 2016October 22, 2016 Russell Rickford 2016 Presidential Election, democracy, electoral politics, Politics

Now that another sordid election cycle is almost behind us, the pundit class has begun to issue the customary pleas

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Mass Incarceration and Its Mystification: A Review of The 13th

October 22, 2016July 12, 2017 Dan Berger carceral state

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

October 20, 2016October 20, 2016 Ibram X. Kendi racism

“Standardized tests have become the most effective racist weapon ever devised to objectively degrade Black minds and legally exclude their

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Not Another Slavery Movie

October 18, 2016October 17, 2016 Janell Hobson Black film, black protest, Nate Parker, slavery, The Birth of a Nation

Even before controversial director Nate Parker debuted his Nat Turner movie, The Birth of a Nation, black voices emanated from Black

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Women, Gender Politics, and Pan-Africanism: An Interview with Keisha N. Blain

October 17, 2016February 7, 2017 Kathryn Vaggalis #WomenandPanAfricanismSeries, black nationalism, Pan-Africanism

In today’s guest post, Kathryn Vaggalis, the managing editor of Women, Gender and Families interviews Keisha N. Blain about the

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