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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

Podcast, Race

A People’s Anthology: Episode Two

Jack O’Dell — “The July Rebellions and the ‘Military State’”

Rosie Gillies, Boston Review

Podcast, Race

A People’s Anthology: Episode One

Claudia Jones — “An End of the Neglect of the Problems of the Negro Woman!”

Rosie Gillies, Boston Review

Podcast, Race

A People’s Anthology

Our members-only podcast is now available to all! A reading series of radical essays and speeches, season one highlights six short texts related to Black liberation struggles in the U.S., from Claudia Jones to the Combahee River Collective.

Rosie Gillies, Boston Review

Race

Immigration Enforcement and the Afterlife of the Slave Ship

Coast Guard techniques for blocking Haitian asylum seekers have their roots in the slave trade. Understanding these connections can help us disentangle immigration policy from white nationalism.

Ryan Fontanilla

Race

“White Fragility” Gets Jackie Robinson’s Story Wrong

Robin DiAngelo’s best-selling book sells a misguided view of baseball integration to her readers and corporate clients. 

Peter Dreier

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.

Boston Review

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

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