...Sharon P. Holland 2005 by Duke University Press 2005 Sharon P. Holland The Last Word on Racism: New Directions for a Critical Race Theory Dismayingly, institutionalized racism and prejudice endure too, long after the abolition of slavery...

...Vijay Prashad 2005 by Duke University Press 2005 Vijay Prashad How the Hindus Became Jews: American Racism after 9/11 In November 2001, I traveled to Washington, DC, for the second Annual South Asian Literary...

... one of the highest rates of extreme poverty, inequality, and violence on the continent; (3) being both Black and poor is not exactly a coincidence. Although there are many reasons behind the protests in Colombia, this article focuses on the structural and everyday expressions of racism that lead...

... that enables antiblack racism and genocide. © 2009 Duke University Press 2009 Joy James The Dead Zone: Stumbling at the Crossroads of Party Politics, Genocide, and Postracial Racism In traditional African thought, there is no concept...

...Walter M. Brasch Copyright © 1982 by Duke University Press 1982 The Hanigan Case: Hung Up on Racism? Walter M. Brasch How do you convince three Mexicans who were robbed and tortured in the United States that justice was served after one of the American whites accused of the crimes...

...Louise K. Barnett Nineteenth-Century Indian Hater Fiction: A Paradigm for Racism Louise K. Barnett I Pre-Civil War frontier fiction is predominantly concerned with the Indian-white confrontation along the frontier as background for the development of a conventional genteel love story. With­...

...Frank E. Smith Copyright © 1965 by Duke University Press 1965 Valor s Second Prize: Southern Racism and Internationalism Frank E. Smith The tradition of Southern internationalism has seemed, for the last twenty years, more legend than reality. In the mire of isolationist sentiment that seems...

..., “Experiences of Racism among Kurds in Germany—Functions and Effects of (Not) Speaking About Anti-Kurdish Racism,” the author frequently encounters instances of devaluation of Kurdish identities due to racialization and everyday invisibilization. The professional demands on educational institutions...

...Barnor Hesse The postracial idea of Western societies being socially beyond the hegemonic imperatives of previous racial formations or exhibiting the increasing disintegration of racism has rightly drawn intellectual and political fire from critical theory. However, what this fire routinely...

...Jenn M. Jackson In August 2020, prominent race scholar and thinker on anti-racism Ibram X. Kendi wrote an article in the Atlantic titled, “Is This the Beginning of the End of American Racism?” The subtitle read: “Donald Trump has revealed the depths of the country’s prejudice—and has inadvertently...

...Pamela Brown The neoliberal construct of perpetual indebtedness to nonhuman financial entities has created a populace so focused on debts “owed” to Wall Street that we have almost no memory of any other kinds of debts. If Malcolm X was correct that we “cannot have capitalism without racism,” we...

.... Remembering these Black feminist analytic and activist efforts to challenge black women's sexual oppression reframes Black feminism as a singular project that calls out white women's racism to a broader liberatory one requiring confrontation with male power writ large and, in particular, Black male violence...

...J. Kēhaulani Kauanui This essay focuses on the case study of Native Hawaiians and the backlash against sovereignty struggles by neoconservatives who appropriate civil rights rhetoric to claim “reverse racism” in order to dismiss indigenous national claims as exclusionary. For indigenous peoples...

.... The film is a ghost story and conjures a number of connections to related stories and to questions of racism, imprisonment, and war that my essay offers in response. My title—“I'm already in a sort of tomb”—is taken from Victor Serge's fictionalized autobiography, Men in Prison , whose contemporaneous...

... Bois irrefutably exposed the racism underlying the prevailing Dunning school of interpretation of Reconstruction. In its place he advanced ideas, radical for the time, that have become commonplace in historical writing—among them that slavery was the fundamental cause of the Civil War, that blacks were...

...Joy James This examination of “Concerning Violence,” the first chapter of Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth , reflects on the rebellion of the native intellectual against colonialism and racism. This essay argues that the possibilities of political transformation through struggles against...

...M. Shawn Copeland After sketching the development of black theology and its unmasking of white racism at the heart of Christianity in the United States, the article turns to the seminal work of historian of religions Charles H. Long in order to understand more adequately the emergence of black...

...Lewis R. Gordon Drawing on Sylvia Wynter’s insight that the theodicean grammar of racism is also a “biodicy,” this article explores its implications for an understanding of the formation of blackness as a modern phenomenon and its significance for models of rationalization and reason, on the one...

... and the paroxysm of a revolt that started at least as early as 2010 but that in reality can be traced to much more distant periods: the dictatorship that lasted from the sixties to the eighties back through to the core of Brazil’s racism and inequality, that is, the slavery period. In this sense, struggling...

...Stephanie Li In the 1997 essay “Home,” Toni Morrison explores her attempt to create “race-specific, race-free language,” asking “How to enunciate race while depriving it of its lethal cling?” I propose that Morrison's conception of language that encodes race without racism represents a new way...