Bringing Back Walter Rodney
In view of the tasks ahead – if we want to build a forceful movement against racism and imperialist interests – we should reacquaint ourselves with the Guyanese theorist.
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Racism
We Will Bring About Our Own Liberation
“Everything we need is already inside of us as black people. It’s absolutely necessary that we recognize our very rich history of rebellion in this country, one that we can learn from and build off of, and that we can use right now in this moment.
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Orientalism: Hate, Lies, and Hegemony
If you go to a bookstore today, right now, you can find a copy of Seven Pillars of Wisdom in the fiction section. That’s exactly where it belongs.
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Race and Class, Intertwined
To fully understand the racial wealth gap and wealth inequality in general in the United States, we’ve got to understand how wealth was created.
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Thanksgiving Reflections on Standing Rock
What I observed at Standing Rock is symbolic in the sense that so many people—white, Native, young, poor—are disaffected, disenfranchised, alienated, and seek a sense of purpose. They seek empowerment through finding community in caring for each other and in direct action.
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The Neoliberal “Common Sense” of Racist Police Violence
We have to understand the violence of policing within a long continuum of ongoing, foundational, colonial, imperial, racist violence that produces the US political economy.
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“There will always be another Jungle.”
Observations of a visitor to the (in)famous refugee encampment the week of its “eviction.” It’s not what you think; it’s worse than you think.
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Left Transformation and the Movement for Black Lives
Do these social movements have the means to put over their vision of the future? Not right now. They’re not strong enough. But they are producing extraordinary insights and information that helps guide the way forward.
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How We Got So Racist
The scientific revolution and the Enlightenment racialized and whitened freedom, civilization, rationality, and beauty.
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Silopi in Ruins
When we told the two co-mayors how shocked we were at the destruction in Cudi, they laughed bitterly: “Cudi? That’s nothing compared to Zap, Basak, and Barbaros.”