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Education

Undocumented in the Ivory Tower

An excerpt from “Counternarratives from Women of Color Academics”

May 23, 2019 • by Alessandra Bazo Vienrich

Counternarratives from Women of Color Academics: Bravery, Vulnerability and Resistance documents the lived experiences of women of color academics who have leveraged their professional positions to challenge the status quo in their scholarship, teaching, service, activism, and leadership. By presenting reflexive work from various vantage points within and outside of the ...

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No ‘Fringe’ About It: An Interview with Arte Público Press

The NBBC award-winning press on publishing Latino authors in the United States

May 4, 2019 • by Virginia Valenzuela

In March 2019, The New School hosted the National Book Critics Circle awards, which honor literature published in the United States in the previous year. The awards are presented in six categories -- autobiography, biography, criticism, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry -- and are the only U.S. literary awards chosen by ...

No ‘Fringe’ About It: An Interview with Arte Público Press

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Braids: a Memoir

The lessons I missed out on as a mixed kid living in a mostly white town in Central Florida

April 25, 2019 • by Jasmine Respess

I never really learned to braid. I can do a simple three strand braid, but nothing more. This is one of the lessons I missed out on as a mixed kid living in a predominantly white town. Growing up, I spent most of my time outside. By the swamp, in the ...

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Lorraine Hansberry and the Long Black Freedom Struggle

Imani Perry’s ‘Looking for Lorraine’ Review

April 5, 2019 • by Robert Greene II

The play A Raisin in the Sun is one of the most recognizable stage productions in the last 60 years of American history. Many Americans have encountered it -- whether on Broadway, at a local production, in film, or in a high school or college classroom. Yet, the person who wrote it, ...

Lorraine Hansberry and the Long Black Freedom Struggle

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The People’s Organizer

Mindy Thompson Fullilove on a new edition of Homeboy Came to Orange

April 3, 2019 • by Mindy Fullilove and Evangeline Riddiford Graham

Homeboy Came to Orange: A Story of People’s Power is Ernest’s tale of his life in organizing, written with his daughter, New School professor Mindy Thompson Fullilove. First published in 1976, a new edition of the Homeboy Came to Orange was released by New Village Press last year, and features a new foreword ...

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The Globalization of White Supremacy

Countering the Spread of South African Apartheid Rhetoric

April 1, 2019 • by Zeb Larson

In classrooms, apartheid is often depicted as the last gasp of old-school racism, a throwback to an earlier era of European imperialism that took too long to die. Sometimes it’s compared to other racist systems, such as Jim Crow in the United States or the racial hierarchy in Nazi Germany. ...

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Reflections of a Federal Judge from Jim Crow Mississippi

A Jo Freeman Review of ‘Won Over’

March 23, 2019 • by Jo Freeman

When I was working in Mississippi for SCLC in 1966, I would not have believed that any of the young white men I saw on the streets (mostly harassing us) would ever reject white supremacy. They appeared as dedicated to its domination as sports fans are to their clubs. William Alsup writes that ...

Reflections of a Federal Judge from Jim Crow Mississippi

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The African American Poet as Historian

Poets do history — just not in the way that historians conceive of it

March 21, 2019 • by Holly Genovese

What is history? Not the past, but the creation of “history,” the writing of history, the teaching of history? Is it only something someone formally trained as a historian can do, even though scholars of literature and African American studies, and high school teachers and writers engage with the past, ...

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Can Behavior Genetics Free Itself From Racial Supremacy?

An excerpt from “Misbehaving Science”

March 13, 2019 • by Aaron Panofsky

Behavior genetics has always been a breeding ground for controversies. From the “criminal chromosome” to the “gay gene,” claims about the influence of genes like these have led to often vitriolic national debates about race, class, and inequality. In Misbehaving Science, Aaron Panofsky traces the field of behavior genetics back to its ...

Can Behavior Genetics Free Itself From Racial Supremacy?

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What To Do About Racial Supremacy in Behavior Genetics?

An interview with Aaron Panofsky

March 12, 2019 • by Aaron Panofsky and Josh Maserow

Behavior genetics has always been a breeding ground for controversies. From the “criminal chromosome” to the “gay gene,” claims about the influence of genes like these have led to often vitriolic national debates about race, class, and inequality. In Misbehaving Science, Aaron Panofsky traces the field of behavior genetics back to its ...

What To Do About Racial Supremacy in Behavior Genetics?

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Banned for Life – from Mississippi

Review of Brenda Travis, written with John Obee

February 28, 2019 • by Jo Freeman

At age 17 Brenda Travis was banned from the state of Mississippi, or so she was told. Forced to leave family and friends behind because she got involved in the civil rights movement she spent most of her life someplace else, but always felt like an exile. Brenda was just 16 ...

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Reconsidering the History of Race through Peyote

How categories of belonging are made in Mexico

January 31, 2019 • by Alexander S. Dawson

Loyalties begin with a sense of belonging, a sense of who is on the inside and who is on the outside. I suppose that historians almost invariably interrogate notions of loyalty as we imagine our historical subjects; how they experienced their connections and obligations, and how this in turned shaped ...