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The Centrality of Whiteness in Modern Sports

September 25, 2019September 17, 2019 Jermaine Scott culture, Gender, masculinity, race, sports, white supremacy

Modern sport is racial. This statement has become obvious with the recent protests in the NFL, NBA, and WNBA around

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Race and the Paradoxes of the Night

September 16, 2019September 8, 2019 Celeste Henery criminal justice system, environment, race, racism, urban history, white supremacy

In 2001, John Bortle, an experienced, American amateur astronomer, created a scale to measure the darkness of a night’s sky.

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Elite Activism: Survival and Resistance in the Ivies

September 11, 2019September 16, 2019 Shirletta Kinchen #AAIHSRoundtable, #UpendingTheIvoryTower, Activism, black politics, Black Power, education, race, W.E.B. Du Bois, white supremacy

*This post is part of our joint online roundtable with the Journal of Civil and Human Rights on Stefan M. Bradley’s Upending the Ivory

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Freedom Without Citizenship, Reconciliation without Reparations

September 3, 2019August 30, 2019 Westenley Alcenat black politics, capitalism, civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, economic justice, Jim Crow, race, Race and Economic History, racism, slavery, white supremacy

This post is part two of a two-part commentary/analysis on Black citizenship after Reconstruction. Read part one here: “Deferred Freedom

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Against Multiracial Authoritarianism

July 15, 2019July 15, 2019 Dan Berger black politics, black protest, civil rights, nation, Politics, race, white supremacy

Concluding her stunning essay on the racist and sexist representations of Anita Hill’s testimony against Clarence Thomas as he alighted

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