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Martin Luther King’s “False God of Nationalism”

Today’s animus against migrants is a legacy of Jim Crow

January 9, 2018 • by Vaughn A. Booker

A version of this essay was originally published on January 9 2018. Speaking on the first black-owned radio station in the US in 1953, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. preached on “The False God of Nationalism.” In the sermon, preached at Ebenezer Baptist Church and broadcast on Atlanta-based WERD radio ...

Martin Luther King’s “False God of Nationalism”

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Confederate Statues Preserve Southern Heritage the Way Klan Billboards Did

Advertising for racial terror

January 5, 2018 • by Mark Allan Williams

“Join & Support The United Klans of America, Inc.” Those were the words next to the image of a horseman in white sheet and hood, on a large billboard in Fayetteville, N.C., not far from Fort Bragg. “Help Fight Communism and Integration!” was also printed on that billboard, which wasn’t ...

Confederate Statues Preserve Southern Heritage the Way Klan Billboards Did

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#Charlottesville: Before and Beyond

Public Seminar is launching a collection of essays that reflect on and respond to the violence in Charlottesville in August 2017

January 2, 2018 • by The Editors

These events occurred a year after a bitterly divisive election brought problems of racism, white identity politics, and America’s fraught history of racism to the fore. The violence that ensued — four casualties, including the murder of counter-protester Heather Heyer — left the country bewildered, angry, and frightened about ascendant ...

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Minority Women are Not Protected by the Law

Domestic Violence and Undocumented Women

December 4, 2017 • by Michelle Mason

This is essay is part of the OOPS course Law and Sexuality. A 2015 study by the ACLU on Domestic Violence (DV) and policing found that nationwide 88% of respondents reported that police sometimes or often do not believe victims or blame victims for the violence. This relationship of mistrust between police ...

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Life Sentences

Opening remarks from the Conference on Incarceration and the Humanities

November 30, 2017 • by N. D. B. Connolly

Now, you could imagine the horrors of a colonial prison in a black, economically depressed country like 1930s Jamaica, just as you can imagine the nightmare that the sound of wailing men might conjure in the mind of a nine-year old child like my grandfather. Even the most benign administrative ...

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An Unreasonable Standard

Reconsidering law, race and police violence

November 13, 2017 • by Jennifer M. Page

Wilcox escaped the Coburns, but 30 minutes later, was confronted by another police officer, Jesse Kidder. Wilcox left his vehicle and ran at Kidder. “Shoot me, shoot me,” Wilcox said again and again, still running forward. “I don’t want to shoot you, man,” yelled Kidder as he backed up. Wilcox ...

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What We Really Learned in Charlottesville

Finding a Way Forward

November 9, 2017 • by Andrew Boyer

By the standards of today’s whiplash news cycles, the coverage was in-depth and lasting. The media did not move on from the issue so much as it overexerted itself and wearily stumbled on to the Hurricane Harvey in Texas and Trump’s DACA repeal. When the dust settled, nearly everyone agreed ...

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#BlackLivesMatter and the Democratic Necessity of Social Movements

What active citizenship can look like and what it can accomplish

November 8, 2017 • by Deva Woodly

– Thomas Jefferson, Letter to James Madison 1787 “We who believe in freedom cannot rest.” – Ella Baker 1964[1] Social movements are often regarded as potentially hazardous disruptions, uprisings that interfere with the normal mechanisms of politics -- insurgencies that must be either repressed or swiftly re-incorporated into the regular legislative process. In ...

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Towards Our Fugitive Striving

A Note from the Editors

November 6, 2017 • by Deva Woodly and Christopher Paul Harris

The Context We understand that race is made through the brutal craft of white supremacy: a political, social, economic, and interpersonal formation that both requires and produces anti-blackness to sustain itself. Equally clear to us is that racial “knowledge,” in all its forms, continues to structure our collective experience, both in ...

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The Case for Curiosity in the Fight Against Anti-Blackness

Why We Need a Beginner’s Mind

October 26, 2017 • by Shanelle Matthews

In part, the dearth of curiosity about Black people is a direct result of the ways in which anti-Blackness and white supremacy obscure Black people’s inherent value and worth. In the face of this reality, we have to find a way to build and broaden people’s curiosity about Blackness anyway. ...

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The Virality of Patriotic Antiracism

Combat Veterans and Geopolitical Racism

October 25, 2017 • by Amir Sadeghi

Today, however, the struggle to destabilize the institutional fabric of disenfranchisement, imprisonment, and wealth inequality risks being buried by viral images of combat veterans “taking a knee,” or the children of service members killed in combat signaling their support for the “cause.” Generally speaking, it has become patriotic to stand ...

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Charlottesville, Thomas Jefferson, and America’s Fate

A response to Keval Bhatt

October 22, 2017 • by Michael Weinman

In a stirring, passionate, and bracingly clear recent contribution to the ongoing Charlottesville thread in our “Power and Crisis” vertical, University of Virginia student Keval Bhatt accounts for his decision to join others in shrouding the famous, indeed iconic, statue of Thomas Jefferson on the grounds of the University. I ...