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Celebrating 50 years of Boston Review
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Reflecting on the late Cedric Robinson’s analysis of racial regimes through D. W. Griffith’s masterful propaganda, Robin D. G. Kelley offered a frame for thinking through the last half century’s march toward “the rewhitening of America.” Today the essay feels prophetic. Economic security was hardly the prevailing message of the Trump campaign; instead, it championed ethnic cleansing and mass deportation—a racial regime fueled by white rage and power.
—nia t. evans, journalist, on “Births of a Nation” (2017)
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Our 50th anniversary issue, on the responsibility of intellectuals, journalists, and all of us in the age of fascism and genocide.
Robin D. G. Kelley leads a special section with David Waldstreicher, Jennifer Zacharia, and Martin O’Neill. Plus Vivian Gornick on Shulamith Firestone, Elaine Scarry on Plato and the poets, Joelle M. Abi-Rached on Gaza, and more.
Israel and Palestine
“The War on Terror expanded presidential authority, severely curtailed civil rights, and made a mockery of the Constitution. Today we are living out the latest chapter of this story.”
—Noura Erakat, “The Boomerang Comes Back”
“Defeating fascism requires more than defeating the current administration. We need to stand in solidarity and fight for others as if our lives depended on it.”
—Robin Kelley, “The Responsibility of Intellectuals in the Age of Fascism and Genocide”
“A much more promising path to abundance is to embrace a twenty-first-century New Deal. That is the tried-and-true model for a ‘liberalism that builds’ in the United States.”
—Sandeep Vaheesan, “The Real Path to Abundance”
“When Edward Said wrote of the ‘vocation for the art of representing,’ he could have been speaking about Palestinian journalists.”
—Jennifer Zacharia, “Israel’s War on Journalists”
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