Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
out of raw self-interest; the racist policies necessitate racist ideas to justify them—lingers over the life of racism.
Ibram X. Kendi • How to Be an Antiracist
ideas argue that racist policies are the cause
Ibram X. Kendi • How to Be an Antiracist
Being a Black American requires double consciousness, in the words of W. E. B. Du Bois, the habit of seeing from inside the logic of race and the lives of the racialized, and from the external superego of what it means to be American, with all its archetypes and interests.
Imani Perry • South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
As its title suggests, Unnamed Figures not only illuminates Black appearances in the visual culture of this period but also asks how our encounters with them are shaped by the erasure of Blackness from art and archives.
Zoë Hopkins • The Invisible Presence of Blackness in American Art
The racializing serves the core mandate of race: to create hierarchies of value.
Ibram X. Kendi • How to Be an Antiracist
the Black migration that built racial enclaves that became microsites of political power.
Opinion | The Way Harris Lost Will Be Her Legacy
policies.