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Get Out & The Horror of White Pleasure

An Examination of Jordan Peele’s 2017 Film

April 12, 2017 • by Ella Myers

The terrific film Get Out -- which writer and director Jordan Peele aptly dubs a “social thriller” -- is a smash hit and critics’ favorite. Many glowing reviews converge on a key claim: the film is a gripping exposé of “white liberal hypocrisy.” And it is. But it is also, and ...

Education

White Supremacy, Elitism, and the Future of Liberal Education

A response to Tim Lacy’s ‘Great Books Socialism’

April 12, 2017 • by Michael Weinman

In his extended essay, “Great Books Socialism?,” recently published on Public Seminar, Tim Lacy makes a compelling case for adapting the practice -- suggested by Molly Worthen in an Op-ed for the New York Times -- of deploying the great books as ideological tools established by conservative foundations and institutes ...

Education

Decolonizing Epistemologies: Part 2

Race Critical and Decolonial Sociology

April 11, 2017 • by Alana Lentin

This blog post is republished with the permission of the author, Alana Lentin, from her blog, alanalentin.net. This discussion is a continuation of the discussion begun in the last post, Decolonizing Epistemologies: part 1. Decolonial approach The decolonial approach to the discussion of the relationship between modernity and coloniality and how this continues ...

Education

Decolonizing Epistemologies: Part 1

Race Critical and Decolonial Sociology

April 10, 2017 • by Alana Lentin

This blog post is republished with the permission of the author, Alana Lentin, from her blog, alanalentin.net . What are the possibilities for social and political critique opened up by the decolonial approach? I shall examine the interconnections between postcolonial theory and the Decolonial, uncovering the trajectory that began with Indian subaltern studies ...

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Anthony Wayne, Distributed Sovereignty, and the Bodies of the Republic

From the early modern to the contemporary USA, part 1

April 10, 2017 • by Isaac Ariail Reed

Is Wayne -- from his uncouthness to his ruthlessness to his success -- useful to think with today? There are certainly ways he haunts our present. Historians, for example, have often seen him as a forbearer of Andrew Jackson’s Indian removal policies. And as such he connects, via a recent, ...

Anthony Wayne, Distributed Sovereignty, and the Bodies of the Republic

Race

America As It Really Was

The Black Power Mixtape: 1967 – 1975

April 7, 2017 • by Ryan Ross

The Black Power Mixtape: 1967 – 1975 (2011; Producer: Annika Rogell; Director: Göran Olsson) is a collection of largely unseen and unused footage captured by Swedish photojournalists during the Black Power movement. Their aim, as stated in the beginning of the documentary, was “to understand and portray America – ...

Education

Black Study, Black Struggle

Race Critical and Decolonial Sociology

April 6, 2017 • by Alana Lentin

This blog post is republished with the permission of the author, Alana Lentin, from her blog, alanalentin.net In April 2016, the Free University of Western Sydney was launched by a group of local people -- activists, teachers/educators and students -- critical of the neoliberal university’s capacity to be a site for ...

Feature

Misrepresentation and Misrecognition

Steve King’s American Exceptionalism and its Ties to the “Slaves were Immigrants, too” Thesis

March 30, 2017 • by Michael Weinman

I don’t want to spend much time on King’s comments themselves, but let’s note here the way that “American civilization” is equated with “Western civilization”. Let’s also note that other civilizations are inferior to this civilization, precisely because other civilizations “produce very little freedom,” while “our” superior civilization produces more. ...

Education

Race Critical and Decolonial Sociology

Syllabus

March 16, 2017 • by Alana Lentin

The syllabus below comes from a graduate course offered by Alana Lentin during her Hans Speier Visiting Professorship at The New School in New York (Spring 2017). The syllabus and subsequent blog posts are republished with the permission of the author from her blog, alanalentin.net. Race, critical, and decolonial sociology is premised ...

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(Not) Coming to Terms with the Past

Race, Injustice and Social Policy in “Postracial” America

March 15, 2017 • by Michael Weinman

A week later, on March 6th, Ben Carson, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), waded into similarly troubled waters when he claimed -- in an address to HUD employees -- “That’s what America is about. A land of dreams and opportunity. There were other immigrants who came here in ...

Race

A Blog for Black Millenials

A Review of The Root

March 14, 2017 • by Sofia Thompson

Long before social media mobilization and the Age of Trump, Black millennials and their allies have used blogging to mobilize and protest the issues that galvanized Civil Rights icons. Although outright segregation is a thing of the past, police brutality and inequality continue. Media outlets like The Root have therefore ...

Activism

Punching Nazis in the Face

A philosopher makes the case for violent resistance

March 6, 2017 • by Eric Anthamatten

My human dignity lay in this punch to the jaw... —Jean Améry, At The Mind's Limits As white supremacist Richard Spencer was being interviewed on camera, a masked protester punched him square in the jaw. Many conservatives looked at this as evidence of "cry-baby” liberalism: unable to handle alternative points of view, ...