Corporation as ‘Citizen’ is the Next Anti-Black, Anti-Democratic Model that Needs to be Torn Down
When Claudia Rankine was asked by The Guardian why she decided to give the title…
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It’s the Catholic Bishops, Not Those Who Toppled Junipero Serra Statues, Who Have Failed the Test of History
Apologies are not enough. As protesters have taken to the streets throughout the world in…
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On the Erasure of Whiteness in Responses to Convicted Pedophile Jan Joosten, a White Man
In her now classic paper titled White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo writes about the many ways…
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Hey Hey, Ho Ho White Jesus Has to Go… But The Issue is More Complicated Than You Think
As a child growing up in Louisville, Kentucky in the late 1970s a curious painting…
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Love the Scholarship But Hate the Scholar’s Sin?: ‘Himpathy’ for an Academic Pedophile Enables a Culture of Abuse
In her excellent book Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny, the philosopher Kate Manne coined…
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Methodist Church’s ‘Dismantling Racism Initiative’ Excludes Some Black Lives
On one of the most sacred days of observance in African American history, Juneteenth, the…
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Louie Giglio ‘White Blessing’ Incident Reveals Something Critical About Evangelical Efforts to Address Racism
On June 14th, as the city of Atlanta reeled from the murder of Rayshard Brooks…
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The Resurgence of Right-Wing Anti-Semitic Conspiracism Endangers All Justice Movements
In right-wing circles, theories about cultural Marxism in the era of Trumpism come entangled with other anti-Semitic theories, often arguing that George Soros and a shadowy “globalist” cabal are working to dissolve national borders and sovereignty into a totalitarian-communist “New World Order.”
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Special Series: Can We Call the New Zealand Terrorist a ‘Christian’ White Nationalist?
In a series of pieces, RD contributors debate whether or not it’s proper and meaningful to label the ideology behind the terrorist attack on a New Zealand mosque “Christian” nationalism or simply “white nationalism.”
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Misdiagnosing Nationalism as ‘Christian’ Exacerbates the Challenges of Islamophobia: A Response to Murali Balaji
Christian nationalism and white nationalism have some common concerns, but they shouldn’t be conflated in their differing narratives and responses to Muslims and other immigrants.
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