Blood Sugar: A New Book on Food Justice in Black America
This post is part of my blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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Are You An Intellectual?
On December 16, 2016, I delivered the doctoral commencement address at the University of Florida. This is an amended version
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The American Revolution, Race, and the Failed Beginning of a Nation
Although forms of systemic racism had certainly not gone away prior to Donald Trump’s election, that so many Americans voted
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Imagining An Antiracist America in the Wake of Trump’s Election
In defiance of Donald Trump’s election on the platform of bigotry, and in defiance of the despair that is seemingly
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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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