Tag: Race

Just Imagine, My Dear, It Won’t Be Painless
Jeffery R. Webber writes about Gabriela Cabezón Cámara’s recently translated Booker Prize-nominated novel The Adventures of China Iron.”

Defeat the Police
Omedi Ochieng discusses the police’s role as a counterinsurgent force and it’s impact on radical movements’ meaningful pursuit of police abolition.
Snatching Victory
Jasson Perez argues that the rise of authoritarianism is a global phenomenon. When the US left takes an American exceptionalist approach, this sets us back in our quest to defeat neoliberalism, the insurgent right, fascism, and authoritarianism.
Speculating on Race
Samantha Iyer warns against the romanticization of the age of the welfare state, arguing that the policies of those decades were a historical basis—rather than an alternative—to today’s landscape of racial exclusion.
Class, Race, and Radicalism in the Twentieth Century US South
Charles Post interviews Michael Goldfield about his new book The Southern Key.