BY MARTIN KICH The “what” in this case can refer, of course, to many things—the causes, the effects, and/or the political, cultural, and moral implications of the two issues and the ways in which they are (or are not) being addressed. But I would like to focus on simply a similarity in which the evidence…
BY BIKO MANDELA GRAY, LORI LATRICE MARTIN, AND STEPHEN C. FINLEY “Hello?” The number on the caller ID is an unfamiliar one, but you know the area code; recently, you gave a job talk in that area or submitted your tenure or promotion portfolio. And so, you hope that this is the phone call—that phone…
BY SUZANNE A. WHITEHEAD It has been several months since I first penned my new Academe article, “How Do We Teach Now,” and a year after I created a study at my university with counselor education graduates and students. The article is all about the change in the national administration in Washington, and many of…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH This item is a news update from the Boston Globe that was distributed today: White people need to stop reinforcing the stereotype that White people are not just stupid but ridiculously so. If I feel that I need to apologize for being White, it is because some people seem almost willfully…
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.
BY HANK REICHMAN With high school students and their supporters across the country planning walkouts from class this spring to demand common sense gun control measures, it may be useful to look back on, commemorate, and learn from events that occurred 50 years ago this week. Among the many anniversaries from the remarkable year 1968,…
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…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH The first 2018 issue of the Boston Review [http://bostonreview.net/] is devoted to the appreciation of, reflections on, and reconsiderations of the many elements of the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The contents include the following contributions: FORUM MLK Now, Brandon M. Terry King in Context, Barbara Ransby…