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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

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Booker T. Washington and the White Fear of Black Charisma

March 2, 2017March 6, 2017 Jeremy C. Young Barack Obama, black politics, black protest, W.E.B. Du Bois

First, the crowd gathered at the Atlanta Exposition on September 18, 1895, heard the band play “Dixie”; then they listened

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Black Protest, White Backlash, and the History of Scientific Racism

October 5, 2016October 4, 2016 Guest Poster 2016 Presidential Election, Colin Kaepernick

Co-Authored by Christopher Petrella and Justin Gomer “Mainstream culture…defines threats to racial order as a form of madness that is,

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Black Intellectuals and White Audiences

July 27, 2016July 26, 2016 Guest Poster blackness, Kenneth Clark, Ta-Nehisi Coates

This guest post was originally published on Public Books and is reprinted here with permission. The author, Matthew Clair, is

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White World Order, Black Power Politics: An Interview with Robert Vitalis

March 3, 2016March 4, 2016 Paul Hébert black internationalism, W.E.B. Du Bois

This month, I had the wonderful privilege of interviewing Professor Robert Vitalis on his recent book, White World Order, Black

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