Posts tagged: racism

Rainbow Coalition or Class War?

The only way to overcome the divisions within the working class is to confront them directly. The problem of white supremacy must be fought out openly within the working class.
Philosophy, Race, and the Right-Wing Press

Much of the UK tabloids' coverage of SOAS students’ demands is an unedifying combination of 1980s “loony Left” bashing and Trumpism.
Detroit’s Rebellion and the Rise of the Neoliberal State

The unprecedented prison expansion over the last four decades is inconceivable outside the context of mass antiracist and class struggle and the state’s crushing of the urban insurrections of the 1960s.
Thugs and Journalists

The repetition of words like “thug” and “gang” in media coverage of anti-fascist demonstrators suggests the degree to which mainstream journalists, and centrists more widely, understand challenges to the state in the same euphemisms with which they express their own deep anti-blackness.
Coming to Terms: The Third World and the Dialectic of Imperialism

"How are we to conceptualise what we [black peoples] were, what we are, what we are becoming?"
Racial Capitalocene

Is the Anthropocene racial?
Our Streets

Heather Heyer was killed by a person and not a car, and yet the car, a Dodge Challenger, seems almost an extension of the person.
Trump Asked "Where does it stop?" That’s Actually a Good Question

The forty-fifth president essentially argued that, taken to its logical conclusion, an anti-slavery criteria would force us to take down monuments to many of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America. Trump is, in effect, calling our bluff: are we willing to face the full extent of racist violence in America’s history?
The Coalition Ethic: On De Colores Means All of Us

Betita Martínez’s work comprises one of the most important living histories of progressive activism in the contemporary era.
No to the instrumentalisation of the fight against anti-Semitism!

An open letter signed by more than twenty intellectuals and activists contesting the Israel-centric definition of anti-Semitism employed in a recent resolution passed by European Parliament.
Dehumanization by Deification: On Kamala Harris and "Black Women Will Save Us"

“Black women will save us!” has become a kind of liberal refrain following the presidential election (where 94% of Black women voters supported Clinton) and the emergence of Maxine Waters and Kamala Harris as congressional gadflies.
Who’s Afraid of the White Working Class?: On Joan C. Williams’s White Working Class: Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America

After November 8, 2016, invoking the "white working class" suddenly seemed to explain everything.