Brian Amos and Michael P. McDonald (Florida): Racial Voting and Geography in the United States. Nick J. Sciullo (Georgia State): Richard Sherman, Rhetoric, and Racial Animus in the Rebirth of the Bogeyman Myth. Quayshawn Spencer (Penn): A Radical Solution to the Race Problem. Ted C. Thornhill (Earlham): “If People Stopped Talking about Race, It Wouldn’t be a Problem Anymore”: Silencing the Myth of a Color-Blind Society. Prudence Carter, Mariella Arredondo and Russell Skiba (Indiana), and Mica Pollock (UCSD): You Can’t Fix What You Don’t Look At: Acknowledging Race in Addressing Racial Discipline Disparities. The measuring sticks of racial bias: Even when we have good intentions, we discriminate in ways big and small, as many studies have shown. Sean McElwee on how millennials are less racially tolerant than you think. From Richard Wright’s Bigger Thomas to Ferguson’s Michael Brown: Edward Carson on the reality of indignant forces in post-racial America. From Boston Review, a forum on Ferguson, including an opening essay by Glenn C. Loury on how Michael Brown shouldn't be a poster child for social justice movements, with responses by Danielle Allen, Harold Pollack, Melissa Nobles, and Doug Henwood, among others.
Sam Han (NTU): The White World: The Problem of European Universalism in W.E.B. Du Bois’ Writings on Colonialism. Lewis Gordon (Conn): Race, Theodicy, and the Normative Emancipatory Challenges of Blackness. Lewis Gordon (UConn): Black Existence in Philosophy of Culture. Kehinde Andrews (BCU): Towards a Black Radical Independent Education: Black Radicalism, Independence and the Supplementary School Movement. Christopher J. Lebron (Yale): Between Roots and Routes: On Paul Gilroy’s The Black Atlantic. Barnor Hesse (Northwestern): Escaping Liberty: Western Hegemony, Black Fugitivity. The introduction to The Age of Garvey: How a Jamaican Activist Created a Mass Movement and Changed Global Black Politics by Adam Ewing. Emily Dawson (UCL): “Not Designed for Us”: How Science Museums and Science Centers Socially Exclude Low-Income, Minority Ethnic Groups. How did Western culture get from Shakespeare’s Caliban to Bill Cosby’s Dr. Cliff Huxtable? Bill Benzon on race in the symbolic universe. Christopher A.D. Charles (West Indies): Racial Socialization, Black Identity Transactions, Beauty and Skin Bleaching. Can the anti-racist struggle keep up with racism's capacity to reinvent itself again and again? Yes — we can "recall" anti-racism and adjust it.
