Race and Anti-Racism

What have we learned in the past year?

We are still on hiatus, but if you have a pitch or an essay for one of our fall issues, please let us know. What would you like to see more of at Public Seminar? We are all ears:

The ruins of Greenwood, Tulsa’s Black business district, after it was demolished by white terrorism in 1921. Photo credit: Public Domain Review

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August 5, 2021

Anti-Racism

• Deva Woodly, “An American Reckoning: The fire this time.” (June 4, 2020)

• John McWhorter, “The Neoracists: A new religion is preached across America— It’s nonsense posing as wisdom.” (March 11, 2021)

• Musa al-Gharbi, “If Everyone Else Is the Problem, You Probably Aren’t Seeing Things Clearly: Why effective anti-racism demands reflexivity.” (June 8, 2020)

• Elwood Watson, “Saying Goodbye to Aunt Jemima Is Not Enough: What we really need to do to address the economic impact of systemic racism in the United States.” (July 9, 2020)

Whiteness and White Privilege

• Nadia Y. Kim, “What America Teaches White Men About Asian American Women: The Atlanta killings have all the hallmarks of a hate crime.” (March 25, 2021)

• Mukasa Mubirumusoke, “How “White Privilege” Obscures Black Vulnerability: There is a crucial distinction between the laborer and the capitalist, but the psychological security that a white person gains from the objectification of the Black Other is of a different sort.” ( March 11, 2021)

• James Miller, “A Genealogy of White Privilege: An essay on the politics of confession and guilt.” (March 11, 2021)

Race and Culture

• Phuong-Cac Nguyen, “Vietnamese in America: A cross generational conversation about culture and identity.” (April 21, 2021)

• Claire Potter, “#OprahMeghanHarry: The mother of popular antiracism presents these retired royals, and their pain, as a lesson to us all.” (March 11, 2021)

• Alison Frank Johnson and Emily Greble, “Soccer and the Enduring Nonsense of Race: Austrian Marko Arnautović’s verbal assault on North Macedonia’s Ezgjan Alioski raises questions about race and nation in Europe’s past and present.” (June 21, 2021)

• Marc Hertzman and Giovana Xavier, “Let’s Build a Monument to Anastácia: An enslaved woman’s image that has traveled around the hemisphere can help us rethink slavery and memorialization.” (July 30, 2020)

Podcast

• Nicole Hemmer, Natalia Petrzela, and Neil J. Young, “Critical Race Theory: Past Present Podcast, Episode 281.” (May 25, 2021)