Freedom Dreams - Dissent Magazine

Blacks In and Out of the Left by Michael C. Dawson Harvard University Press, 2013, 256 pp. Contemporary African-American scholars across the humanities and social sciences share a preoccupation with posing big questions about the dilemmas of black life in …

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The rhetoric last summer at commemorations of the fiftieth anniversary of the March on Washington was quite different from that heard at the original march in 1963. Instead of celebrating the great march, the anniversary events sounded a plea for a new civil rights movement. Largely missing from that call, however, was the strong prophetic voice of black religion.

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Beyond Superwoman: Justice For Black Women Too - Dissent Magazine

By some metrics, African-American women are faring better than black men. They comprise nearly two-thirds of black undergraduates and a clear majority of advanced degree holders. But these numbers tell only part of the story.

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Brute Ideology - Dissent Magazine

Witchcraft and racecraft—unlike witches and race—are things that actually exist.

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Black Lives Matter in the South | Dissent Magazine

South Carolina has always been a battleground of larger, national campaigns for racial justice.

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Scenes from the Front: France's Front National  in Power - Dissent Magazine

Since March 2014, the Front National (FN) has governed eleven French municipalities. The photographs here, from a two-year reporting project on three of these FN cities, offer a glimpse of what a France run by the FN might look like.

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1% Museum: The Guggenheim Goes Global - Dissent Magazine

This year Gulf Labor’s newly formed direct-action wing—the Global Ultra Luxury Faction—has created a PR nightmare for the Guggenheim.

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