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Politics, Race

The War on Critical Race Theory

Turning a blind eye to the realities of racial injustice, the highly orchestrated right-wing attacks cast a body of scholarship about race in the law as a great threat to American society.

David Theo Goldberg

Race, Science & Nature

Race, Policing, and The Limits of Social Science

Studying the social world requires more than deference to data. In some cases, it may even require that we reject findings—no matter the prestige or sophistication of the technical apparatus on which they are built.

Lily Hu

Race

Police and the License to Kill

Detroit police killed hundreds of unarmed Blacks in response to the civil rights movement. Their ability to get away with it reveals why most of today’s proposals to make police more accountable are bound to fail, and how we can do better.

Matthew D. Lassiter

Class & Inequality, Race

“Progress for People of Color Doesn’t Come at White Folks’ Expense”

A conversation with Heather C. McGhee about the zero-sum thinking that has long dominated American attitudes to race and wealth—and how to organize to secure public goods for everyone.

Heather C. McGhee, Archon Fung

Race

Slave Rebellions and Mutinies Shaped the Age of Revolution

Several recent books offer a more complete, bottom-up picture of the role sailors and Black political actors played in making the Atlantic world.

Steven Hahn

Arts in Society

Women Who Fly: Nona Hendryx and Afrofuturist Histories

A Sun Ra tribute concert by a member of the pathbreaking pop group Labelle leads to reflections on how Black women artists and scientists have often been at the vanguard of their disciplines—though most are still awaiting due recognition.

Emily Lordi

Politics

Decolonizing Politics

In his latest book, famed African political philosopher Mahmood Mamdani considers how to restore the full benefits of citizenship to permanent minorities in post-colonial societies.

Hari Ramesh

Race, Science & Nature

An Antiracist Agenda for Medicine

Colorblind solutions have failed to achieve racial equity in health care. We need both federal reparations and real institutional accountability.

Bram Wispelwey, Michelle Morse

Race

Who Is Afraid of Race?

There is a cost to advancing caste as the preeminent analytic in place of race—we lose the precision that comes with naming our affliction a problem of anti-Blackness. We mistake the map for the territory, the skin for the bones, and the bones for the skin.

Panashe Chigumadzi

Race

Why Cornel West’s Tenure Fight Matters

I wrote letters for West’s hire and renewal at Harvard. The school’s administrators completely miss the point of tenure.

Robin D. G. Kelley

Podcast, Race

A People’s Anthology: Episode Six

Assata Shakur — “Women in Prison: How It Is With Us”

Rosie Gillies, Boston Review

Podcast, Race

A People’s Anthology: Episode Five

The Combahee River Collective Statement

Rosie Gillies, Boston Review

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