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Philosophy & Religion, Race

Why Black Marxism, Why Now?

The threat of fascism has grown before our eyes. Black Marxism helps us to fight it with greater clarity, with a more expansive conception of the task before us, and with ever more questions.

Robin D. G. Kelley

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Race

Race

DNA and Our Twenty-First-Century Ancestors

Home DNA ancestry kits include no ancestors, instead comparing customers to other present-day people based on assumptions about race and ethnicity. So what are they actually selling?

Duana Fullwiley

Race

Poisoning Tallevast

First, segregation blocked this Florida community from equal education and other public goods. Then the military–industrial complex sickened residents and destroyed their property.

James Manigault-Bryant, Ruby Bagwyn, José Constantine

Race

Cedric Robinson and the Origins of Race

As more of Robinson’s books come back into print, reading them with Black Marxism can enrich our understanding of racial capitalism and offer additional tools for fighting our political impasse.

Minkah Makalani

Race

Race Capitalism Justice: Free Digital Copy

To celebrate Black History Month, all new newsletter subscribers receive a free digital copy of our best-selling issue.

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Race

The Logic of Eugenics Still Haunts Virginia

Elizabeth Catte’s new book examines how Virginia progressives believed the forced sterilization of poor whites would pave the way to a bright future—and how their legacy endures in national parks and prisons.

Ellen Wayland-Smith

Philosophy & Religion, Race

Whiteness Is the Greatest Racial Fraud

The Krugs and Dolezals dominate the headlines, but they are distractions from the fraud that imperils us all: believing oneself to be white.

Luvell Anderson

Politics, Race

The Fight Ahead

The Republican Party has become a white nationalist party. If old fashioned politics can’t change that, we must consider alternatives.

Bernard E. Harcourt

Race

Caste Does Not Explain Race

The celebration of Isabel Wilkerson’s ‘Caste’ reflects the continued priority of elite preferences over the needs and struggles of ordinary people.

Charisse Burden-Stelly

Race, Science & Nature

Racism and Respiration

COVID-19’s disproportionate impact on Black communities is just one of many respiratory inequities shaped by systemic racism.

Adam Gaffney

Race

Racial Identity & Racial Fraud

In this new series, philosophers reflect on the meaning of racial fraud, exploring its stakes—ethical and political, social and historical—and what it tells about the legacy and lived experience of racial injustice.

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Gender & Sexuality, Philosophy & Religion

Why We Shouldn't Compare Transracial to Transgender Identity

Unlike gender inequality, racial inequality primarily accumulates across generations. Transracial identification undermines collective reckoning with that injustice.

Robin Dembroff, Dee Payton

Politics, Race

I Don't Have to Forgive Joe Biden

We should condemn the president-elect’s record on race, but that does not foreclose hope for his administration.

Christopher Lebron

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