Just as often as anti-Blackness seeps into new places and discussions, Black folks always find new ways to clap back. According to a racist on social media, recently, my “type are not going to be ...
Tag: University of Illinois Press
The Netanya-who?s: Gossip and Other Kinds of History
Benzion Netanyahu—father of the former prime minister—is not the protagonist; rather, it is his scholarship and the practice of history itself.
What if Black Women Were Free?
The transnational struggles of Black women throughout history are different experiments in the practice of freedom.
On Our Nightstands: September 2020
A behind-the-scenes look at what Public Books editors and staff have been reading this month.
We See You, Race Women
When I was in graduate school, whenever a black woman scholar presented her work a peculiar phenomenon emerged: peers always and only remarked on the speaker’s person, rather than on her ideas. At ...