Posts tagged: racism

• 

  Mistaking Identity Politics: A Conversation with Asad Haider (Part II)

  "We have to come back to the straightforward explanation that this is a society which is structured by racial oppression and has been for its entire history."

• 

  Mistaking Identity Politics: A Conversation with Asad Haider (Part I)

  "We can't decide in the abstract which of any social relations is more determinant in any particular social phenomenon. Some have primacy in particular moments, some come in a particular kind of sequence, but we can't just say: race, class, which one is more important?"

• 

  The Great Camouflage

  "We must dare to point out the Caribbean stain on France's face, since so many of the French seem determined to tolerate no shadow of it."

• 

  The Holocaust Analogy

  Comparisons between Trump's border regime and the Nazi genocide often obscure more than they reveal about white supremacy, past and present.  

• 

  Liberalism and Racial Slavery: A Unique Twin Birth

  Domenico Losurdo looks at the foundational link between liberalism and Atlantic slavery, and liberal philosophers' shifting positions on slavery in the period between Somersett v Stewart and the American Civil War.

• 

  Racialized Erotic Capital and the New York City Strippers' Strike: An Interview with Siobhan Brooks

  Sociologist Siobhan Brooks discusses the New York City Strippers' Strike, her experience organizing the Lusty Lady, and racism in sex work.  

• 

  Why Do People Fight for Their Servitude as If It Were Their Salvation?

  Asad Haider traces Spinoza’s question through the ideas of Wilhelm Reich and Stuart Hall, and argues that to make politics possible again we need to abandon the position of moral and political purity that can only rely on superstition. 

• 

  Race and Class in the Age of Trump

  Asad Haider's left critique of "identity politics," a call for us to move beyond individual recognition to the collective struggle for an egalitarian society.

• 

  Mistaken Identity: A Playlist

  A playlist of songs that informed or express aspects of the theory and history presented in Mistaken Identity. 

• 

  Reading 1968: The Great American Whitewash

  By ignoring African American intellectual history, many accounts of 1968 consolidate the very segregation 1960s youth were once so determined to undo.

• 

  Militancy in Many Forms: Teachers Strikes and Urban Insurrection, 1967–74

  Marjorie Murphy looks at the often fraught relationship between rank-and-file public school teacher militancy and the urban uprisings of the late 1960s and early 70s. 

• 

  The Historic 1968 Struggle Against Columbia University

  How a Black United Front in Harlem, the Students’ Afro American Society, and Students for a Democratic Society took on Columbia University, Mayor John Lindsay, the New York Times, the NYPD in 1968 — and won!