Sublime

the case that what we called Du Bois’s theory of racial cooperative economic development,7 combined with Hogan’s theory of Black self-help and the model of Mondragon Cooperative Corporation among the Basque people in northern Spain,

However, he set a dangerous example by identifying the main problem as Black people not living up to White middle-class ideals. This is a mold that researchers of Black people and cities willfully maintain to this day. One of the major goals of this book is to show that there is nothing wrong with Black people that ending racism can’t solve.

I admire the story of Ruth Simmons, the president of Brown University, the first black woman to hold that position, who was once asked by an interviewer why she got a Ph.D. in French literature. Her reply was perfect. "Because everything in the world belongs to me," she said. She knew that such a question would never have been asked of a

The threat of violence within a framework of well-nigh limitless power is a weapon by which the weak are held in check. Artificial limitations are placed upon them, restricting freedom of movement, of employment, and of participation in the common life. These limitations are given formal or informal expression in general or specific policies of sep

birth and training; but it is an observation not…

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If heterosexual, white, middle-class families with kids are America’s gold standard, then poor, unmarried, Black mothers are vilified as its disgrace.