April 1, 2024
Racism
The American Heritage Dictionary defines racism as the belief that race accounts for differences in human character or ability and that a particular race is superior to others. This notion is deeply embedded in the settler-colonial, enslaving founding of the U.S., and remains surprisingly widespread today. No issues has been more destructively divisive to U.S. society.
Racial Disparities Dashboard
An online dashboard displaying disparities between people in the U.S. who are identified as being either Black or white (using the specific racist categories peculiar to the U.S. settler-colonial form of division.)
How Colonial Violence Came Home: The Ugly Truth of the First World War
An analysis of how European and US racism, so rampant during WWI, came home to the centers of empire.
I Heard It Through the Grapevine
In the film “I Heard It Through the Grapevine,” Baldwin traveled south to find out what really became of Black Americans after the protest movements of the nineteen-sixties.
Ishi: The Last Yahi
Recollections of the last free Californian.
