New York Times Pulitzer writer Isabel Wilkerson was widely applauded for two books on caste, using racial discrimination analysis that flourished in 1940s academia. But does her U.S. model explain other forms of discrimination internationally?
How critical race theory has become a handy target for an old-fashioned assault on civil rights.
An interview with anthropologist Irma McClaurin dives into the process and meaning behind creating an archival home for Black feminist work.
The field’s future lies in reclaiming parts of its past that it willingly abandoned.
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A long forgotten if seminal early Richard Wright novel is brought back to life by Library of America for a new generation of readers.
The campaigns aimed to create feelings of guilt amongst those believed to be suffering with STDs, particularly syphilis.
The scholar whose X-ray vision detected the role of enslaved people in the innards of capitalism and empire was seemingly felled by both when the moment to confront their toxic legacy arrived.
Nobel awards an African author — what's the history? School boards showdowns, and more
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