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Think prejudice is overblown? A social psychologist provides the receipts in this densely informative but highly readable account

It is the Palestinian’s people’s refusal to disappear, to hang on to their land, that has led so many Israelis to deploy the racist imagery of “human animals.”

Interview with Dr. Maurice Jackson about his new book on the use of sport and music. Traditionally not fields touched on extensively in intellectual history, the book builds on both of these to create a rich tapestry of life in Washington, D.C.

The rich tradition of Black Marxist thought — one that includes W. E. B. Du Bois, C. L. R. James, and Frantz Fanon, among many others — emphasizes the centrality of capitalism to racial oppression and its destructiveness for all workers.

U.S. history is not a steady march toward greater equality, democracy and individual rights, these liberal values compete with an alternative set of illiberal values that hold that citizenship should be limited by race, ethnicity, gender and class.

The Philadelphia Eagles and Kendrick Lamar’s collective of geniuses made this the Super Bowl we needed. This year’s Super Bowl in New Orleans could have been a fascist Mardi Gras. Then, the unexpected....

Referencing DEI is the new rightwing abstraction deployed by Republicans to conceal their anti-Black racism

Donald Trump's bizarre, fact-free threat against South Africa did not just arise in the back of his head last week. It is the initiative of alt-right ex-South Africans in America and like-minded people here (in South Africa) who are urging them on.

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