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Articles in Race tagged with History

Long decried by liberals and conservatives alike, the Martinican psychiatrist remains one of the most piercing critics of colonialism.

Sam Klug

A tragedy in Birmingham and the making of a radical.

Ed Pavlić

Melvin Rogers and Neil Roberts discuss the difficulty of keeping faith in a foundationally anti-Black republic.

Neil Roberts, Melvin Rogers

It's at the heart of what makes The Black Jacobins a classic.

David Scott

Jeanne Theoharis speaks with Margaret Burnham on her work in reconstructing Jim Crow terror, within and outside the law.

Margaret A. Burnham, Jeanne Theoharis

Revisiting When Affirmative Action Was White, nearly two decades on.

Ira Katznelson

Historian Gerald Horne has developed a grand theory of U.S. history as a series of devastating backlashes to progress—right down to the present day.

David Waldstreicher

In her new book, historian Kelly Lytle Hernández makes the case for why U.S. history only makes sense when told as a binational story.

Jonna Perrillo

Robin D. G. Kelley published his pathbreaking history of the Black radical imagination in 2002. Where are we two decades later?

Robin D. G. Kelley

Though a means of escaping and undermining racial injustice, the practice comes with own set of costs and sacrifices.

Meena Krishnamurthy

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