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Before Charlottesville

An interview with Carolyn McAllaster on the Greensboro Massacre of 1979

October 21, 2017 • by Carolyn McAllaster

Carolyn McAllaster, the Colin W. Brown Clinical Professor of Law and director of the HIV/AIDS Policy Clinic, said the events in Charlottesville and the president’s response to them sparked memories of the Greensboro Massacre in which five protestors died and 11 were injured even before news of the apology broke. ...

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Why Do You Call Us Ladies?

History, gender, and manners in public life

October 18, 2017 • by Jessica Halem and Jen Manion

Consider the story of Abigail Adams and her most famous quote. When Abigail Adams asked her husband John to “Remember the Ladies” as he drafted the Declaration of Independence, she was not advocating for the rights of American women who were predominantly poor, indentured, and enslaved. Rather, she called specifically ...

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Is it Time for the Kneeling Freedman Statue to Go?

Remolding our Political Aesthetics

October 17, 2017 • by Gordon Mantler

The contrast between the two is striking and one reason why I take students there. The Emancipation Memorial, designed by Thomas Ball, portrays a stern Abraham Lincoln standing over a kneeling, newly freed black man. In one of Lincoln’s hands is the Emancipation Proclamation; the other floats above the prone ...

Is it Time for the Kneeling Freedman Statue to Go?

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Triangulation is the Not-So-New Black

Party Coalitions, Racial Scapegoating and the Carceral State

October 10, 2017 • by Daniel Kato

Bill Clinton vilified African-Americans with his draconian crime bill while pushing for economic deregulation policies that he hoped would woo Republicans while also not upsetting the labor base of the Democratic Party too much. By the time Obama came around, African-Americans went from being vilified by the Democratic Party to ...

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March for Racial Justice and March for Black Women

Sept. 30, 2017 DC

October 4, 2017 • by Jo Freeman

Black Women First! Black Women First! Shouted several thousand people as they marched up Pennsylvania Ave. from the Capitol on September 30. They were leading two marches, which started at two different points on Capital Hill before joining to march to the Department of Justice on 10th St. There they planned to turn south to go to ...

March for Racial Justice and March for Black Women

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‘Live Through This: Surviving the Intersections of Sexuality, God, and Race’ by Clay Cane

A book review

September 23, 2017 • by Kevin Ewing

In 1991, filmmaker, educator, and gay rights activist Marlon Riggs told Outlook magazine: “When the existing history and culture do not acknowledge and address you -- do not see or talk to you -- you must write a new history, shape a new culture that will.” He called for Black lesbian and ...

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Empire, Epidemics and Visions of Racial Apocalypse

The Precursors of Contemporary Xenophobia

September 21, 2017 • by Alexandre White

In the numerous violent clashes the book depicts, like the one in which Belgian soldiers stationed in consular offices in India massacre thousands of advancing migrants, murder is depicted in orgiastic fashion while officers recite the victories of great conquerors past to raise morale -- tales of crusading knights slaying ...

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The Political Landscape Post Charlottesville

Where Should Students and Academics Stand?

September 16, 2017 • by Elena Gagovska

I had thought that the scariest sight that weekend would be the images of the “Unite the Right” rally. Men can be scary enough on their own. Men with violent ideologies are simply terrifying. The white supremacist rally was toxically masculine, looked utterly fascist and sounded like a historical period ...

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Why Colin Kaepernick Isn’t Working

Football’s Sketchy Labor History

September 7, 2017 • by Claire Potter

Football may be entertainment for most of us, but it is labor for those who play it, a kind of work that requires as much preparation and discipline as any academic or white collar professional training. In fact, many parents begin fantasizing about an NFL career when their children are ...

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Remembering Romanian Fascism; Worrying About America

Losing Our Moral Compass between Past and Future

September 3, 2017 • by Maria Bucur

Living under Ceausescu was in some ways like living with Donald Trump as president. There was a lot of nationalist swagger, posturing, and boasting about independence from the Soviets. When Ceausescu refused to send troops into Czechoslovakia in 1968 as part of the Warsaw Pact crackdown on student protests, people ...

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Before Charlottesville There Was Jamestown

An Essay

August 28, 2017 • by Mindy Fullilove, Robert Fullilove, William Morrish and Robert Sember

Nearly 400 years of division have created an apartheid society: we need a new social infrastructure to carry us through the challenges of climate change, decaying physical infrastructure, rapidly evolving jobs, underperforming schools, uneven access to health care and lack of affordable housing. Our central task is to engage as ...

Before Charlottesville There Was Jamestown

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Aristotle on Charlottesville

‘Mixed Actions’ and Exercising Judgement on Violence

August 28, 2017 • by Michael Weinman

In the opening movement of book 3 of his Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle argues that, at bottom, each and every human being is responsible for essentially every action they undertake; put another way: there is nothing a human being does for which they ought not to be praised or blamed. This ...