The Black-Labor-Left Alliance in the Neoliberal Age
The report, A Future for Workers: A Contribution from Black Labor, brings together the perspectives and voices of significant black
Read MoreThe report, A Future for Workers: A Contribution from Black Labor, brings together the perspectives and voices of significant black
Read MoreIt might be said that out of the dissemination of historical studies there has been born into the world a
Read MoreArticle originally published at nonsite.org. Some readers will know that I’ve contended that, despite its proponents’ assertions, antiracism is not a
Read MoreThe report, A Future for Workers: A Contribution from Black Labor, brings together the perspectives and voices of significant black
Read MoreAva DuVernay’s film Selma has generated yet another wave of mass mediated debate over cinematic representation of black Americans’ historical experience of racial injustice. The controversy’s logic is at this point familiar, nearly clichéd. DuVernay and others have responded to complaints about the film’s historical accuracy, particularly in its portrayal of Lyndon Johnson, with invocations of artistic license and assertions that the film is not intended as historical scholarship.
Read MoreThe question whether an Obama-era Democratic party may offer opportunities for labor and left-of-center political interests presumes that Obama’s Democratic Party offers potential for significant departure from the rightward tacking we’ve seen since Bill Clinton’s presidency. There is little in anything Obama’s said or done to warrant such a presumption.
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