A Reading List on White Supremacy

POSTED BY MARTIN KICH http://bostonreview.net/race/stephen-kantrowitz-white-supremacy-has-always-been-mainstream   https://bostonreview.net/race-law-justice/clarence-harlan-orsi-concerned-citizens. http://bostonreview.net/race-politics/robin-d-g-kelley-births-nation. http://bostonreview.net/race/ruha-benjamin-black-afterlives-matter. http://bostonreview.net/race/ed-pavlic/baldwins-lonely-country. http://bostonreview.net/forum/walter-johnson-to-remake-the-world.      

The Sound of Breaking Glass: Columbia 1968

BY HANK REICHMAN Fifty years ago today, on April 23, 1968, members of the Students Afro-American Society (SAS) and Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and their supporters at Columbia University occupied Hamilton Hall, the main undergraduate classroom and administration building, demanding an end to construction of a segregated university gymnasium on public park land…

All Scholarship is Personal

BY AARON BARLOW Since the beginning of my academic career, I have intertwined the personal with my objects of study. After tentative moves toward some nonsense dissertation related to literary theory, I chucked it all and wrote on my favorite science-fiction writer. That, as they say, was my ‘defining moment.’ At the time, there was…

“This is the Revolution”: Howard ’68

BY HANK REICHMAN Prominent among the cascade of remarkable events in the incredible year of 1968 were a series of student rebellions, the most prominent of which was the uprising at Columbia University in April and May, in which I participated and about which I will have more to post next month.  But the first…

How the NRA Has Devolved

POSTED BY MARTIN KICH The following are two excerpts from an article compiled by the staff of the magazine The Week. The article provides a succinct overview of how the National Rifle Association has evolved, and it is worth reading in full. But I found these two excerpts (which are not sequential) especially enlightening because…

All They Will Call You Will Be Deportee

BY HANK REICHMAN I’ve mentioned before on this blog that, given the extraordinary events of 1968, this is a big year for 50th anniversaries.  But today marks a notable 70th anniversary.  On the morning of February 27, 1948, a plane traveling from Oakland to the Mexican border crashed in Los Gatos Canyon, California, about an…

W.E.B. Du Bois, Higher Education, and the AAUP

BY HANK REICHMAN Today marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of W.E.B. Du Bois, one of the greatest of all American scholars and intellectuals.  To commemorate the occasion and explore the lessons of DuBois’s life and work for our time, the always thought-provoking Black Perspectives blog of the African American Intellectual History Society has…

Agents of Change Streaming Begins Today

POSTED BY HANK REICHMAN Agents of Change, the documentary film about the late 1960s student rebellions at San Francisco State and Cornell Universities, which led to the establishment of Black Studies programs at both schools, is now available for streaming.  The film was shown to enthusiastic audiences at the AAUP’s 2015 and 2016 Summer Institutes. …

What MLK Actually Did

POSTED BY MARTIN KICH This is an excerpt from the essay “Most of You Have No Idea What Martin Luther King Actually Did,” by Hamden Rice. It was originally published in 2011, and it has been reprinted by Daily Kos: The [source of]main suffering in the South . . . was that white people, mostly…