As Ferguson, Missouri, erupted in August 2014, and media commentators across the ideological spectrum referred to the angry response of African Americans as 'black rage', historian Carol Anderson wrote a remarkable op-ed in the Washington Post showing that this was, instead, 'wh…
For most of US history, the police have used violence against African Americans with impunity - but after the murder of unarmed teenager Mike Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, mass protests erupted to challenge that impunity. In the process, a new generation of Black activists has co…
"Activist and scholar Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor surveys the historical and contemporary ravages of racism and persistence of structural inequality such as mass incarceration and Black unemployment. In this context, she argues that this new struggle against police violence holds th…
A cast of distinguished contributors engage critically with Martin Luther King's understudied writings on labor and welfare rights, voting rights, racism, civil disobedience, nonviolence, economic inequality, poverty, love, just-war theory, virtue ethics, political theology, imp…
Exposes the social, cultural, and historical story of black female oppression that influences the black community as well as the white, male-dominated world at large
Argues that racially structured discrimination is the norm by using social contract theory.
Exploring classic Western social contract theory and European expansionism and racism over 500 years, the author seeks to demonstrate how this unacknowledged 'contract' has shaped a system of European global domination which is imposed on non-whites through ideological condition…
Argues that racially structured discrimination is the norm by using social contract theory.
