Sociologist Margaret A. Hagerman zeroes in on affluent, white kids to observe how they make sense of privilege, unequal educational opportunities, and police violence. Hagerman considers the role that they and their families play in the reproduction of racism and racial inequali…
Notes from the first year: "This is how we lost to the white man"; Notes from the second year: American Girl; Notes from the third year: Why do so few blacks study the civil war?; Notes from the fourth year: The Legacy of Malcolm X; Notes from the fifth year: Fear of a black Pre…
"First, Yancy explains to whites that they are more dangerous and frightening to blacks than some (many? all?) whites take blacks to be. Second, he invites whites to develop a white double consciousness to mirror the black double consciousness that W.E.B. Du Bois claimed blacks …
Look, a White! returns the problem of whiteness to white people. Prompted by Eric Holder's charge, that as Americans, we are cowards when it comes to discussing the issue of race, noted philosopher George Yancy's essays map out a structure of whiteness. He considers whiteness wi…
Prominent sociologist Charles Lemert compellingly argues that race is the central feature of modern culture; this was true for the 20th century and it will be true for the 21st. If we want to understand how the world works, Lemert explains, we must understand the centrality of r…
Against gender. Enslavism and the subjects of feminism -- Abolish property: Black feminist struggles against anti-Blackness -- Gender and the grammar of enslavism -- Abjective returns: the slave's fungibility in white gender studies -- Post gender, post human: Braidotti 's Nietz…
In Gender and the Abjection of Blackness, Sabine Broeck argues that gender studies as a mostly white field has taken insufficient account of Black contributions, and that more than being an ethnocentric limitation or blind spot, this has represented a structural anti-Blackness i…
