Understanding Blackness Online: Race and Cyberculture
André Brock, Jr., aims to expand the study of Black digital practices beyond the simplistic oppression-resistance dialectic.
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Featured Review
Explore select racial justice titles through long-form reviews.
Featured Reviews consider how a title exposes racist systems and inequities or proposes means of dismantling them. These important works from valuable perspectives are of use to undergraduates, faculty, and anyone interested in learning more about racism and racial inequalities.
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Slaveholder Republic: Gerald Horne Unravels the Dark Roots of Texas’s Statehood
Driven by the desire to maintain slavery, the Texas Revolution of 1836 ultimately led to the institution's expansion.
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Power in Numbers: Liza Taylor Explores the Potential of Intersectional Feminist Movements
Taylor combines political and feminist theory to flesh out a nuanced understanding of intersectionality and how it developed over time through the collective work of women-of-color theorists.
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An Enduring Social Malaise: Eduardo Bonilla-Silva’s Seminal Text Re-Examines Racism’s Persistence
Bonilla-Silva provides a thought-provoking analysis of contemporary racial dynamics, uncovering the subtler forms of racism that exist in society.
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A Complicated Homecoming: Lawrence Jackson Dissects Baltimore’s Racist Legacies in “Shelter”
Jackson’s Quest for Home in a Segregated City Offers Insights into Painful Racial Legacies and Opportunities for a More Hopeful Future.
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A Transnational History of Pan-Africanism: Robin J. Hayes Details Liberation Struggles Across the Atlantic
Activists on both sides of the Atlantic collaborated to build global anti-racist movements, laying the foundations for future racial justice movements.
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Making the Ordinary Extraordinary: George Nesbitt’s Powerful Memoir Details the Personal Struggle for a Better World
Nesbitt recounts his experiences of Black life in the United States with humor, wit, sadness, irony, and occasionally anger.
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Racialization in the War on Terror: Aziz Highlights America’s Racial-Religious Hierarchy
In a racialized society, the securitized gaze of the state extends even to religious minorities in gatekeeping whiteness.
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Contending with America’s Original Sin: Jonathan Scott Holloway Traces African Americans’ Complicated History
Even many years after abolition, the horror of chattel slavery continues to leave a lasting mark on American society.
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Navigating the Spatial Complexities of Race: Elijah Anderson Exposes the Dangers of Daily Interactions
Anderson spotlights the complex politics that Black people must navigate in spaces that are predominantly populated by white people.
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Conceptualizing Humane Immigration: Recognizing Borders as Violent Tools of Racial Ordering
Harsha Walia problematizes claims that borders and walls keep nations safe, revealing the complex ways in which they actually reify colonial relationships of exploitation.
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The Indomitable Fannie Lou Hamer: A New Biography Chronicles Her Lifelong Struggle for Justice
Kate Clifford Larson renders a touching portrait of Hamer as a truly organic intellectual and charismatic leader who championed women's rights, voting rights, and equality for all.
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