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How Immigrants Became Scapegoats in the United Kingdom

November 13, 2020November 9, 2020 Gabrielle Mauriello African Diaspora, Blacks in Britain, book review, immigrant, Immigration, race, racism

In Hostile Environment: How Immigrants Became Scapegoats, Maya Goodfellow sets out to explain how decades of restrictive British policies and

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Keepin’ It Real in Contemporary Conversations on Race

November 6, 2020November 9, 2020 Omi McCadney black politics, blackness

Elwood David Watson’s Keepin’ It Real: Essays on Race in Contemporary America is a collection of essays analyzing tumultuous racial politics

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“Report from the Bahamas”: The Legacies of Colonialism and White Supremacy

November 5, 2020October 31, 2020 Amelia Moore #BlackEcologies, African Diaspora, Black women, Caribbean, class, colonialism, Gender, literature, race, racism, tourism

*This post is part of our series on Black Ecologies edited by Justin Hosbey, Leah Kaplan, & J.T. Roane. Thirty-eight years

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The Visual Documentation of Racist Violence in America

November 4, 2020October 31, 2020 Mary Niall Mitchell Civil War, photography, race, racism, slavery

Speaking to a Washington Post reporter recently, attorney Ben Crump (who represents the families of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Sean

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Making the Revolution Irresistible: An Interview with Aishah Shahidah Simmons

October 26, 2020November 9, 2020 Keelyn Bradley LGBT

Editor’s note: In honor of LGBTQ History Month, this week we’re revisiting pieces published on Black queer history, thought, and/or

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