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Why Engage Public Anger

A reply to Chakravarti’s Introduction to ‘Sing the Rage’

August 1, 2017 • by Michael Weinman

“Sing the Rage” is a bold title for a bold book. It is no small provocation to thus entitle a book that argues for a more robust engagement with anger in public life in today’s democratic societies. The title is a further challenge for readers who recall the proem[1] to ...

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Black Bachelorette, White Mask

The Patterns of Subjugation and Oppression in Reality TV

July 28, 2017 • by Liz Scheer

There is no more popular culture, only ways of seeing populations as nothing. -- Nina Power, Thirty-one Theses on the Problem of the Public Like many faithful members of Bachelor Nation, I have long watched my favorite television show, The Bachelorette, with a healthy dose of irony. The sheer premise -- thirty-five ...

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Sing the Rage

Listening to Anger after Mass Violence

July 27, 2017 • by Sonali Chakravarti

The words of Godfrey Xolile Yona, who appeared before the TRC in October 1996, exemplify the type of testimony that is the catalyst for my thinking about the significance of anger in testimony after mass violence and its relationship to restorative justice. Detained for his involvement with the anti-apartheid organization ...

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The Meaning of July 4th for the Negro

A speech given at Rochester, New York, July 5, 1852

July 4, 2017 • by Frederick Douglass

On July 5, 1852, abolitionist and self-emancipated slave Frederick Douglass delivered a critique of the Constitution of the United States to the nineteen members of Ladies Anti-Slavery Society of Rochester, New York and their guests. In this address, Douglass argued that the values of the Constitution existed in contradiction to the condition ...

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Radical Skin/Moderate Masks

Yassir Morsi

June 13, 2017 • by Public Seminar

Pre-book launch event with Australia-based race critical scholar, Yassir Morsi in discussion with Arun Kundnani, author of 'The Muslims are Coming.' Co-hosted by the Zolberg Institute for Migration Studies and the Department Sociology at The New School. The event also launched the Rowman and Littlefield International Book Series, Challenging Migration Studies (edited ...

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Mayoral Statements on Confederate Memorials

Misrepresentation and Misrecognition, yet again (Part Two)

June 12, 2017 • by Michael Weinman

In this second part of further reflections on misrepresentation and misrecognition building on posts from earlier this year, I explore this rhetorical practice with reference to the current debate concerning the removal of statues of and to “Confederate heroes.” These debates have centered on the removal of four statues in ...

Mayoral Statements on Confederate Memorials

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An Interview with Justin Leroy

Racial finance and the question of moral progress

May 24, 2017 • by Narender Strong and Aaron Neber

On Wednesday, March 29th, Justin Leroy, an Assistant Professor at the University of California, Davis, delivered a presentation entitled “Race, Finance, and the Afterlife of Slavery,” as part of the 2017 Whitney Biennial, the seventy-eighth installment of the longest-running survey of American art. Leroy’s talk, which drew from an article ...

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Russia is Our Friend

The Alt-Right, Trump and the Transformation of the Republican Party

May 17, 2017 • by Sanford Schram

Looking behind recent events, there are troubling developments occurring behind the scenes underscoring how Donald Trump’s relationship to the Alt-Right is transforming the Republican Party. In more ways than one. There were already signs that the Republican Party had gone beyond dog-whistling about race to being the Party of white ...

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Fame, Truth, and Justice

A Review of Raoul Peck’s I Am Not Your Negro

May 17, 2017 • by Simone Lewis

“…The general reaction to famous people who hold difficult opinions is that they can’t really mean it. It’s considered, generally, to be merely an astute way of attracting public attention, a way of making oneself interesting...”- James Baldwin, No Name in The Street James Baldwin was more than a writer and ...

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The Whiskey Rebellion, Political Crisis, and the Sociology of Elite Interpretation

From the early modern to the contemporary USA, part 2

May 10, 2017 • by Isaac Ariail Reed

Among the grievances that fueled the rebels we can include an early modern version of a bailout. Government issued bonds had been used to pay the soldiers in the Continental Army during the revolutionary war. During the economic depression of the 1780s, speculators had bought these up for pennies on ...

The Whiskey Rebellion, Political Crisis, and the Sociology of Elite Interpretation

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Escaping the Logic(s) of White Supremacy

The practice of oppositional thought

May 10, 2017 • by Mitchell Kosters

In her article “Indigeneity, Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy,” Andrea Smith advances the argument that there is no monolithic white supremacy. Rather, white supremacy should best be understood as a phenomenon “constituted by separate and distinct, but still interrelated, logics.” [1] She identifies three different racial schematics, corresponding to the different ...

Escaping the Logic(s) of White Supremacy

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Football, Slavery, and Song

On Not Standing for the National Anthem

May 8, 2017 • by Joseph Heathcott

On August 14, 2016 during a pre-season game, San Francisco 49er quarterback Colin Kaepernick remained seated while his teammates stood for the National Anthem. At first it was unclear why he stayed on the bench. But a few weeks later, Kaepernick made his reasons known to journalists, linking the anthem ...