Dear Mr. Bennet, Ms. Kingsbury, and Mr. Dao,
I am writing about Dr. Christina Paxson’s editorial in the New York Times, “College Campuses Must Reopen in the Fall. Here’s How We Do It.” As a university professor, I was flabbergasted by both the factual inaccuracy and narrow-minded vision of the…
Whiteness as a Relationship with Apocalypse
On bad nights, I wake up with white supremacists marching through my mind. Sometimes they carry torches, flames and half-lit faces circling in the darkness. Other times they surge forward in a phalanx of shields and clubs. They yell and chant. “Blood and soil…
Nonviolence, Militancy, and Care in the Ruins of White Supremacy and the Abandonments of the State
In anti-racist circles in Charlottesville, we sometimes talk about how August 12th seemed to throw us into a time warp. Some organizers say they felt like they were thrown back decades, into the 1960s…
