Sublime

Rosa Parks was first an organizer for the NAACP who investigated the sexual assaults of Black women by White men. Rape was a ritual of racial terror wielded against the spirits of Black women. Accusations of rape were a tool of racial terror threatening Black men. What remains harder to address is the way sexual violence exists inside Black communi

A properly liberal state is one in which individual rights are paramount; it protects the individual not only against the abuses of a tyrant but also against the abuses of democratic majorities. Think of liberal democracy as democracy with moral and legal buffers.

Seemingly contradictory calls to lock up and to save Black people dueled in legislatures around the country but also in the minds of Americans. Black leaders joined with Republicans from Nixon to Reagan, and with Democrats from Johnson to Bill Clinton, in calling for and largely receiving more police officers, tougher and mandatory sentencing, and

Alors qu’elle met en crise le modèle anglais, la révolution américaine suscite des représentations et des espérances qui se révéleront complètement irréalistes. L’illusion consiste à croire que, dans la république née d’une grande lutte pour la liberté, l’institution de l’esclavage est destinée à disparaître rapidement. C’est en ces termes que s’ex

after the 1964 Civil Rights Bill became law, “racists redoubled their efforts in the name of patriotism and Christianity, to suppress not only black people but all nonracists,”