Christopher F. Petrella

Resurrecting the Radical Pedagogy of the Black Panther Party

July 3, 2017July 5, 2017 Christopher F. Petrella Black Panther Party, Black Panthers

Not long ago I had the opportunity to visit The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture’s Black Power! exhibition,

Wealth, Slavery, and the History of American Taxation

April 20, 2017April 22, 2017 Christopher F. Petrella taxes, wealth

Only a few days after Tax Day, many Americans still have Uncle Sam on their minds. Though the vast majority

Race, Belonging, and Unconditional White Amnesty

March 15, 2017March 18, 2017 Christopher F. Petrella Abraham Lincoln, Civil War, Donald Trump, Post-Civil War, reconstruction, white supremacy

At a raucous 2016 campaign rally in Phoenix, Arizona, then-candidate Donald Trump outlined his plan to curb “illegal immigration” and

Race, History, and the #ScienceMarch

January 30, 2017March 13, 2017 Christopher F. Petrella black politics, Donald Trump, Politics, Trumpism

Donald Trump is an anti-science president. In fact, his entire raison d’être—perhaps unsurprisingly—stands at cross-purposes with the scientific method, systematic

The Constitutional Convention, 1787. Source: history.com.

Slavery, Democracy, and the Racialized Roots of the Electoral College

November 14, 2016July 1, 2017 Christopher F. Petrella Constitution, electoral politics, Politics

At 11:45 p.m. on November 6, 2012, Donald Trump tweeted that “the electoral college is a disaster for a democracy.”

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