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Politics

Giorgia Meloni and the Far Right’s Transatlantic Turn

Italy’s formerly fascist party aligns itself with American Republicans, British Conservatives, and Likud in Israel

October 3, 2022 • by Lucas Dolan

Giorgia Meloni now represents a cadre of European far-right leaders whose views are fully legible to the American Far Right. ...

Giorgia Meloni and the Far Right’s Transatlantic Turn

Literature

Excerpt from “A Rising Tide Lifts all Boats: Phillis Wheatley’s Poems on Various Subjects”

“Hers is the story, if ever there was one, of a great American”

September 7, 2022 • by Dwight A. McBride

The story of Poems on Various Subjects, like the story of its author, the slave girl named after the ship that brought her across the Atlantic, is a story that should both inspire and enrage. ...

Excerpt from “A Rising Tide Lifts all Boats: Phillis Wheatley’s Poems on Various Subjects”

Sports

Even If She Never Hits Another Ball, Serena Williams Is the GOAT

A conversation with historian Tera Hunter about the greatest woman ever to play the game of tennis—what she overcame, and where she is going—and why Serena’s legacy is intertwined with sister Venus

August 15, 2022 • by Claire Potter

Racism, misogyny, transphobia, homophobia, classism, etc. are all an unfortunate part of sports, which are a reflection of all that transpires in the rest of society. Some sports are worse than others, however. Tennis is an elite country club game that has been reluctant to open up to plebeians—all of ...

Even If She Never Hits Another Ball, Serena Williams Is the GOAT

Interviews

Towards Constructive Politics

What oppression is, at the end of the day, is a world that has been built in a bad way

May 23, 2022 • by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò and Matene Toure

It just isn’t true that the only problem that confronts people who are trying to learn the truth about their social system is that they haven’t talked to enough people who have less money than them, or a more marginalized racial or gender identity. That’s among the problems, but the ...

Colonization

How My Grandmother Ceased to Be African

How East African Asians have been written out of African history

May 11, 2022 • by Shivani Somaiya

And in the pre-independence era, a new racial politics emerged, one that has, for far too long, encapsulated much of East Africa’s postcolonial thought, in which families like ours were increasingly depicted as foreigners to a place that had long been our home....

Social Research

The Global Rise of Xenophobia, the New Issue of Social Research

The New School journal unveils its latest issue

March 30, 2022 • by Social Research

The rise of Xenophobia, globally, has unfortunately become increasingly virulent. The latest issue of Social Research, through a set of case studies, draws connections between the personal and the political with contributions from Marci Shore, Erika Lee, Bálint Madlovics, Irena Grudzińska Gross, Sina Arnold, Jocelyne Cesari, Mehmet Kurt, Munawwar Abdulla ...

The Global Rise of Xenophobia, the New Issue of <em>Social Research</em>

Politics

Race and Redistricting

Gerrymandering is old, but the prohibition of racial gerrymandering is a legacy of the Civil Rights Movement’s success

March 15, 2022 • by Jo Freeman

Eventually, all legislatures conformed to the Supreme Court’s mandate that the only basis for representation was population. States where one party dominated the legislature gerrymandered to consolidate its position. In states with large minority populations which largely voted for one major party and whites the other, party gerrymandering became racial ...

Race

The Implications of March 7, 1965

The history of Bloody Sunday and where we stand today

March 14, 2022 • by Heather Cox Richardson

The story of March 7, 1965, in Selma is the story of Americans determined to bring to life the principle articulated in the Declaration of Independence that a government’s claim to authority comes from the consent of the governed....

History

The Color of Abolition

Linda Hirshman introduces her new book on Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, and Maria Weston Chapman

February 9, 2022 • by Linda Hirshman

I was looking for the mechanics of activism—the meetings, the speeches, the broadsides, the litigation—for my analysis. And Garrison and Douglass were both central to the mechanics of activism. Their alliance fueled critical years of the movement, and their breakup affected the direction of the movement profoundly. This was the ...

Politics

Antisemitism as the Final Stage of Racism

Éric Zemmour’s rise in French politics

January 26, 2022 • by Éric Fassin

We cannot be told that we have to pick our battles either against antisemitism or against racism: it is clear that there is no choice—we have to fight both....

Antisemitism as the Final Stage of Racism

Activism

The Power of Black Feminist Pragmatism

Why the Black Lives Matter movement is the best alternative to the anti-democratic, white supremacist, authoritarian capture of the United States

January 20, 2022 • by Deva Woodly

The Black Lives Matter movement is not a “new social movement” that focuses on cultural transformation while eschewing policy intervention, nor is it fashioned after “old style,” “traditional” social movements that attempt to move policy while deemphasizing the need for deep changes in public understandings of the problems facing polities ...

Activism

We Are a Reckoning

Deva Woodly introduces her new book, Reckoning: Black Lives Matter and the Democratic Necessity of Social Movements

January 17, 2022 • by Deva Woodly

This nation is mine. Mine to claim. Mine to hold to account. Mine to participate in reshaping. So I tell an American story because it is my story to tell....

Racism

Giorgia Meloni and the Far Right’s Transatlantic Turn

Italy’s formerly fascist party aligns itself with American Republicans, British Conservatives, and Likud in Israel

Excerpt from “A Rising Tide Lifts all Boats: Phillis Wheatley’s Poems on Various Subjects”

“Hers is the story, if ever there was one, of a great American”

Even If She Never Hits Another Ball, Serena Williams Is the GOAT

A conversation with historian Tera Hunter about the greatest woman ever to play the game of tennis—what she overcame, and where she is going—and why Serena’s legacy is intertwined with sister Venus

Towards Constructive Politics

What oppression is, at the end of the day, is a world that has been built in a bad way

How My Grandmother Ceased to Be African

How East African Asians have been written out of African history

Race and Redistricting

Gerrymandering is old, but the prohibition of racial gerrymandering is a legacy of the Civil Rights Movement’s success

The Implications of March 7, 1965

The history of Bloody Sunday and where we stand today

The Color of Abolition

Linda Hirshman introduces her new book on Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, and Maria Weston Chapman

Antisemitism as the Final Stage of Racism

Éric Zemmour’s rise in French politics

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