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The History of White Investment in Black Suffering

April 16, 2019August 12, 2022 Stacie Mccormick race, Racial Violence, racism, white supremacy

Possessing the Black body is as popular now as it has ever been. The recent college yearbook controversies depicting students in

Hip-Hop in the Trump Era

April 12, 2019August 12, 2022 Bianki Torres black intellectual history, capitalism, music, race, racism, Resistance, white supremacy

I found out about Kanye West’s October 2018 meeting with Donald Trump through memes on social media. At first, I

Race and the Politics of Knowledge Production in African Studies

April 8, 2019August 12, 2022 Marius Kothor africa, African Diaspora, black intellectual history, black politics, Black Studies, education, Pan-Africanism, race, racism, white supremacy

In the United States, African scholars are conspicuously underrepresented in the field of African Studies. For years, Black scholars have

Working-Class Politics and the Carceral State

February 6, 2019March 31, 2019 Keelyn Bradley capitalism, Racial Violence, racism, white supremacy

In the United States, whiteness as metaphysical absence is a prerequisite for economic class neutralization, allowing the aesthetic malleability and

‘White Rebels in Black’: An Interview with Priscilla Layne

January 24, 2019January 29, 2019 Kira Thurman African Diaspora, Black Europe, Germany, race, racism, white supremacy

In today’s post, Kira Thurman, Assistant Professor of History and Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan, interviews Priscilla