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Germany, Genocide, and Gaza

Why, critics ask, aren’t Germans forcefully condemning Israeli action in Gaza and the West Bank as genocide?

March 6, 2024 • by Andrew I. Port

What about German responses to the claim that Israeli policies toward the Palestinians constitute genocide? Many Germans are understandably wary to use that charged term when it comes to the Middle East because of their own history—the same reason why German officials have kept a tight rein on pro-Palestinian demonstrations ...

Europe & Central Asia

Never Again Should Be for Anybody

Germany is on the wrong side of genocide, again

March 6, 2024 • by Zukiswa Wanner

As an aside, and as an African, I wish the German government exhibited the same regret for their history in Namibia with the Herero-Nama genocide and for the genocide during the Maji Maji Rebellion in Tanzania....

Film & Performing Arts

Horror and Humor in Hulu’s The Other Black Girl

The genre-bending drama challenges the white workplace

February 26, 2024 • by Kelby Clark

Based on the bestselling novel by Zakiya Dalila Harris, The Other Black Girl dissects the horror of insidious racism in white workplaces...

Horror and Humor in Hulu’s <em>The Other Black Girl</em>

Genocide

Preventing Genocide

Large-scale killings of identity groups do not happen overnight

February 14, 2024 • by Kerry Whigham

An increasing number of scholars and practitioners are advocating for new ways of understanding and approaching atrocity prevention. ...

Colonization

The US Should Only Support a Multiethnic, Nonsectarian Israel

If Israel chooses to continue its current course, it should do it alone, without our funding

February 13, 2024 • by Stephen Zacks

Whether or not it sways Netanyahu, we should certainly withhold military funding now and make our support contingent on clearly stated humanitarian objectives and an ultimate governing framework that conforms to our ideas of justice....

The US Should Only Support a Multiethnic, Nonsectarian Israel

Film & Performing Arts

American Fiction Offers a New Spin on the Challenges Facing Black Artists

Director Cord Jefferson tackles Percival Everett’s 2001, novel Erasure

February 12, 2024 • by Zenzelé Soa-Clarke

Cord Jefferson’s American Fiction is garnering praise this awards season for its satirical approach to Black representation...

<em>American Fiction</em> Offers a New Spin on the Challenges Facing Black Artists

Film & Performing Arts

Netflix Revives the Genre of the “Blaxploitation” Film to Attract Black Subscribers

They Cloned Tyrone tries to turn the colonization of Black Americans into a LOL comedy

December 18, 2023 • by Zenzelé Soa-Clarke

As a genre, Blaxploitation films were often morally ambiguous: though made for and by Black filmmakers and audiences, and sometimes depicting a kind of dead-end domestic colonialism, the films often normalized misogynistic treatment of Black women and uncritical ideals of Black capitalism....

Netflix Revives the Genre of the “Blaxploitation” Film to Attract Black Subscribers

Colonization

Beyond Colonialism in a Sentimental Mood

Éric Vuillard’s new book punctures the curious French nostalgia for Indochina

December 4, 2023 • by Albert Nguyen

Empires tend to create a rosy picture of the past, conveniently ignoring the atrocities they inflicted. Vuillard avoids this trap, in a witty manner. ...

Beyond Colonialism in a Sentimental Mood

Media

What Does It Mean to Be “Latino”?

From ads to academia, which box do we check?

November 21, 2023 • by Kevin Anzzolin

From historical influences to contemporary marketing, Kevin Anzzolin explores the evolving nomenclature of the diverse "Latino" community....

Middle East & North Africa

Have We Scholars of Anti-Semitism Failed to Facilitate Empathy for Its Victims?

What we can learn from scholars of anti-Black racism

October 18, 2023 • by Magda Teter

For almost a century, most of us have focused on dissecting anti-Semitic ideas and ideologies. But—with the very important exception of those studying the Holocaust—we have not paid enough attention to the impact these ideas, images, and actions have on Jews as human beings....