Category: Race and Ethnicity

Ethnopluralism: An Inherently Anti-Racist Concept

By Constantin von Hoffmeister12 October 2023No Comments Constantin von Hoffmeister explores ethnopluralism, a philosophy advocating the inherent value of every culture, as exemplified historically by empires like Rome and the Soviet Union. The essay was originally published here. In today’s interconnected global society, conversations about cultural and racial […]

Ethnic Diversity and Social Trust: A Narrative and Meta-Analytical Review

Annual Review of Political Science Vol. 23:441-465 (Volume publication date May 2020) First published as a Review in Advance on March 9, 2020 https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-polisci-052918-020708 Peter Thisted Dinesen,1 Merlin Schaeffer,2 and Kim Mannemar Sønderskov3 1Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen, DK-1353 Copenhagen K, Denmark; email: ptd@ifs.ku.dk 2Department of […]

Obama The Disappointer

On race in America, I miss his former nuance, balance, and hope. Andrew Sullivan Jul 7, 2023 Barack Obama speaks at a 2008 presidential rally in Selma, Texas. (Win McNamee/Getty Images) In the old days, I called myself an Obamacon. Horrified by my misjudgment on Iraq, sickened by […]

That All Men Are Created Equal

By David Pan  ·  Wednesday, July 5, 2023 In spite of the divided opinions concerning the Supreme Court’s ruling against affirmative action in college admissions,[1] there is still solace in realizing that there is an underlying consensus that racial discrimination has no place in U.S. society. The primary dispute is […]

BREAKING: SCOTUS Ends Affirmative Action, Panel DEBATES

Krystal and Emily are joined by Michael Starr Hopkins and Delano Squires to react and debate SCOTUS ruling against affirmative action. Michael Starr Hopkins: https://twitter.com/Theonlyhonest Delano Squires: https://twitter.com/DelanoSquires TIMESTAMPS: (00:00)Intro (0:33)Opening Arguments (8:06)Is Diversity A Valuable Goal? (12:52)When Will Affirmative Action Be Unnecessary? (22:45)SCOTUS Ruling Reaction (30:06)Outro To […]

The Triumph of the Vernacular

“Black talk is again on the move in Lover Man, a newly reissued collection of melancholy stories by Alston Anderson originally published in 1959,” writes Darryl Pinckney in a review from our July 20, 2023, issue. Pinckney situates Anderson in the tradition of black American novelists who write with vernacular […]

A Moderate Plan for Drug Legalization

By Keith Preston June 19, 2023 The issue of drug legalization has long been a subject of debate, with varying perspectives and concerns surrounding its implementation. This essay aims to present a moderate plan for drug legalization that addresses key considerations such as criminal behavior, racial implications, public […]

The War on Black Studies

Sponsored by University of California Press Robin D. G. Kelley The Long War on Black Studies It would be a mistake to think of the current wave of attacks on “critical race theory” as a culture war. This is a political battle. Emmanuel Ordóñez Angulo Lonely at the Top […]

Hip-hop’s political history

Episode 127 with Touré Krystal Kyle & Friends Jun 9, 2023 This week on KK&F, a deep dive into our guest Touré’s incredible new project: the history and politics of hip-hop, looking at everything from the development of record label ownership to the political commentary of 1980s hip-hop […]

The bloody reality of the ‘war’ for Australia: How Aboriginals used guns and horses to resist white settlement – and killed TWICE as many colonists than soldiers who died fighting since WWII

By Stephen Gibbs for Daily Mail Australia Australia’s frontier wars were fought from 1788 to 1930s Up to 120,000 Aboriginal people and 5,000 settlers killed New book says First Nations victories have been overlooked  The popular perception of Australia’s frontier wars seems confined to bands of white marauders […]

‘A Can of Gasoline Under Indian Law’

Sponsored by The MIT Press Fara Dabhoiwala Life Is Short. Indexes Are Necessary. In his new history of the index, Dennis Duncan traces its evolution through the constantly changing character of reading itself. Jessica Riskin A Poisonous Legacy Two new books reveal the story of Stanford University’s early years […]

The Rise of Latino White Supremacy

By Geraldo Cadava May 30, 2023 On May 6th, a thirty-three-year-old Mexican American man named Mauricio Garcia shot and killed eight people at an outlet mall in Allen, Texas. Then he was shot and killed by an off-duty police officer. Because of the white-supremacist views the shooter expressed […]

Joe Biden, Habitual Racialist Demagogue

May 20 2023 Happy Armed Forces Day from  Washington, where President Biden is losing support among black Americans amid his racially charged rhetoric. Victor Davis Hanson isn’t surprised. Other young men shouldn’t hesitate to do what’s right, despite the persecution of a Marine veteran for his subway heroism, […]

The REAL Faces of Black Conservatism

00:00 Intro and recap 11:14– The Distraction 43:35– The Double Agent 01:10:13– The Black Capitalist Further Learning The Myth and Propaganda of Black Buying Power https://imixwhatilike.org/2020/05/25/… Lil Bill on Black Capitalism –    • Why Black Capital…   The missing story on Tulsa https://www.leftvoice.org/from-black-… Orgs and Initiatives to support Stop Cop City https://stopcop.city/ […]

1619 and 1776

Sponsored by California State University, Northridge In the Review’s May 25 issue, Adam Hochschild looks at The Hillsdale 1776 Curriculum, “a fascinating, detailed picture of [Republican politicians’] dream educational agenda” that “starts from the premise that ‘America is an exceptionally good country.’” He examines the 3,268 pages of this history—written by officials at Hillsdale […]