Sublime

The racializing serves the core mandate of race: to create hierarchies of value.

ideas argue that racist policies are the cause

They lose attention because many of their teachers have lost attention, shed it in the heat of a formation that narrowed intellectual excellence down to one kind of performance, one kind of white body-mind.

Look anywhere where there is a preponderance of Black achievement, and graduates of Morehouse and Spelman are disproportionately represented in that number. Unsurprisingly, those campuses that produce the Black leadership class in this country are also sites of the growing pains of Black America, places where sexuality, gender, and class are played

how Blackness is selectively celebrated (and contained) within the white imagination.

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

The advocates and defenders of the black jazz avant-garde and the emergent black cultural nationalists had to distance themselves from what they took to be the threat to their project of black freedom—bebop as jazz authenticity, and cultural assimilation as the solution to black cultural subordination.

The term Alt-Right was not yet a thing, certainly not like it would become within a few short years. The biggest and most innovative name by far in this internet scene was Mencius Moldbug, the pseudonym of programmer Curtis Yarvin. Moldbug’s blog was called “Unqualified Reservations,” and it was as remarkable for its radical ideology as for