Unsatisfied with the relentless pace and narrow constraints of social media, two Americans-- Winkfield Twyman, Jr. and Jennifer Richmond, a black man and a white woman-- rediscovered the art of letter writing and maintained a years-long correspondence about race in the United States. In Letters in Black and White, they share for the first time their exchange in full, charting their journey from wary strangers to trusted confidants. At a time when many Americans are dazed, confused, and angered by the country' s current state of race relations, they offer a model not only for having needed but difficult conversations but also for a better way forward. Marked by well-crafted turns of phrase, sharp wit, and sober reflection, they do not rely on those fashionable words and phrases that have been drained of real meaning or are hopelessly saddled with excessive baggage, such as antiracism, white fragility, and allyship. Rather, on topics ranging from the murder of George Floyd and the launch of the 1619 Project to the debate over reparations and the nature of elite black organizations like Jack and Jill of America, they tell the truth as they see it in their own uncorrupted language, speaking for no one but themselves. Particularly critical of both the ideological battles that fuel media programming and entrench political rivalries and the noble-sounding social and cultural projects that fail time and again to offer any meaningful solutions, they identify productive ways to unify across our differences-- ways to find our common humanity and to mend America' s divided soul. Ultimately, they offer an inspirational message of hope and optimism for all-- one that does not allow the past to define our present or predetermine our future.
Institutionalized white racism : the impact on U.S. higher education / Kofi Lomotey -- Who gets "left out' : Pacific Islanders, data aggregation, and Native erasure / Kēhaulani Kehaulani Vaughn -- Black male genocide : systemic racism and implications for Black male presence and success and in higher education / Stephanie S. Shiver, Maria Ashkin, Jimmy Kendall, and Evelyn Ezikwelu -- Presidential responses to campus racism : an historical perspective / Eddie R. Cole -- Race-conscious sffirmative action in U.S. higher education in an era of pronounced White racial backlash / María Maria C. Ledesma, Uma Mazyck Jayakumar, and Kenyon L. Whitman -- The psychosocial antecedents of racial battle fatigue / William A. Smith -- Outsiders within : Black faculty in U.S. higher education / Channel C. McLewis, Chantal Jones, Gadise Regassa, and Walter R. Allen -- African American faculty and administrators in higher education : from recruitment and retention / Na Lor and Jerlando F.L. Jackson -- Asian American faculty discrimination : why does it matter? / Robert T. Teranishi, Rose Ann Rico Eborda. Gutierrez, and Annie Le -- HBCU activism : the evolving role of HBCUs in resolving racial tensions and advancing racial conciliation in higher education / Ivory A. Toldson, Bianca M. Mack, and Temple R. Price, and Bianca Mack -- Exploring the Latinx-servingness of faculty at Hispanic-serving institutions / Cheryl D. Ching -- Black women faculty engendering brave (online) spaces for Black/students of color and themselves / M. Billye Sankofa Waters, Mounira Morris, and Cherese Childers-McKee -- Diversity leadership at the University of Michigan : from desegregation to diversity, equity, and inclusion / Phillip J. Bowman, Jamillah E. Williams, Angela Ebreo, and Nia D. Holland -- Afterword : equity, justice, and the racial crisis / Valerie Kinloch.
In Liberal White Supremacy, Angie Beeman argues that white supremacy is maintained not only by right-wing conservatives or stereotypically uneducated working-class racial bigots but also by progressives who operate from a liberal ideology of color-blindness, racism-evasiveness, and class elitism. This distinction provides insight on divisions among progressives at the local level, in community organizations, and at the national level, in the Democratic Party. By distinguishing between liberal and radical approaches to racism, class oppression, capitalism, and social movement tactics, Beeman shows how progressives continue to be limited by liberal ideology and perpetuate rather than dismantle white supremacy, all while claiming to be antiracist. She conceptualizes this self-serving process as "liberal white supremacy," the tendency for liberal European Americans to constantly place themselves in the superior moral position in a way that reinforces inequality. Beeman advances what she calls action-oriented and racism-centered intersectional approaches as alternatives to progressive organizational strategies that either downplay racism in favor of a class-centered approach or take a talk-centered approach to racism without developing explicit actions to challenge it.
Summary: "Essays providing a multi-disciplinary look at Derrick Bell's thesis of racial realism"-- Provided by publisher.
Summary: "A powerful - even startling - book that challenges the shibboleths of 'white' anarchism'. Its analysis of police violence and the threat of fascism are as important now as they were at the end of the 1970s. Perhaps more so"--Peter James Hudson, Black Agenda Report Anarchism and the Black Revolution first connected Black radical thought to anarchist theory in 1979. Now amidst a rising tide of Black political organizing, this foundational classic written by a key figure of the Civil Rights movement is republished with a wealth of original material for a new generation. Anarchist theory has long suffered from a whiteness problem. This book places its critique of both capitalism and racism firmly at the center of the text. Making a powerful case for the building of a Black revolutionary movement that rejects sexism, homophobia, militarism and racism, Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin counters the lies and distortions about anarchism spread by its left- and right-wing opponents alike. New material includes an interview with writer and activist William C. Anderson, as well as new essays, and a contextualizing biography of the author's inspiring life
For some in our society, diversity is a threat. Others feel society should be more inclusive, if only out of fairness. But as Johnnetta Cole argues in her new book, embracing diversity and inclusiveness is more than a virtuous ideal; it is essential to a healthy, productive society. Focusing on higher education and other arenas of cultural development, Cole explores our institutions' vulnerability to the influence of racism and the wider implications for American society. At the core of Cole's argument is the belief that increasing the representation of historically marginalized groups on college campuses, and in museums, media, and other institutions is, like the liberal arts, vitally important to social progress. Accompanying Cole's urgent calls to implement social change are vividly rendered experiences from her own remarkable life. Cole issues a challenge for courageous conversations about race and racism and places unique responsibility and accountability on institutions of higher education in leading these conversations.
Hubert Harrison (1883-1927) was a brilliant writer, orator, educator, critic, and activist who combined class consciousness and anti-white-supremacist race consciousness into a potent political radicalism. In this second volume of his acclaimed biography, Jeffrey B. Perry traces the final decade of Harrison's life, from 1918 to 1927.
Summary: "Intensive look at restrictive new voting laws ostensibly designed to target voter fraud but criticized as being racially-based voter suppression"-- Provided by publisher.
2022 IPPY Silver Medal 2021 Foreword Indies Gold Winner for History 2021-22 Reader Views Literary Awards Silver Medal Winner 2021 Best Book Awards Finalist in US History sponsored by American Book Fest A Second Reckoning tells the story of John Snowden, a Black man accused of the murder of a pregnant white woman in Annapolis, Maryland, in 1917. He refused to confess despite undergoing torture, was tried--through legal shenanigans--by an all-white jury, and was found guilty on circumstantial evidence and sentenced to death. Despite hair-raising, last-minute appeals to spare his life, Snowden was hanged for the crime. But decades after his death, thanks to tireless efforts by interested citizens and family members who believed him a victim of a "legal lynching," Snowden was pardoned posthumously by the governor of Maryland in 2001. A Second Reckoning uses Snowden's case to bring posthumous pardons into the national conversation about amends for past racial injustices. Scott D. Seligman argues that the repeal of racist laws and policies must be augmented by reckoning with America's judicial past, especially in cases in which prejudice may have tainted procedures or perverted verdicts, evidence of bias survives, and a constituency exists for a second look. Seligman illustrates the profound effects such acts of clemency have on the living and ends with a siren call for a reexamination of such cases on the national level by the Department of Justice, which officially refuses to consider them.