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This Article addresses a thin slice of the American stain. Its value derives from the conversation it attempts to foster related to reckoning, reconciliation, and redemption. As the 1930s Federal Writers’ Project attempted to illuminate and make sense of slavery through its Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives From 1936-1938, so too this project seeks to ...
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ANTI-BLACK RACISM IN CHILD WELFARE [PDF]
<div>Black children are over-represented in Toronto’s Children’s Aid Society (CAS). A variety of academic of literature points to racism, specifically anti-Black racism, as the reason for</div><div>such high rates of apprehension of Black children.
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This article explores the shifting perceptual scales of racial epistemology and anti-blackness in predictive policing technology. Following Paul Gilroy, I argue that the historical production of racism and anti-blackness has always been deeply entwined ...
Camille Crichlow
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Beyond anti-blackness? Engaging Black Theology and the entanglement of metaphysical brutality
This article explores the role of Black Theology within the context of sustained anti-blackness. It argues that anti-blackness is not only a political failure but the ontological ground of modern life.
Fabian A. Oliver
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Harriet Tubman and Andrew Jackson on the Twenty-Dollar Bill: A Monstrous Intimacy
The controversy surrounding the announcement by the US Treasury, in April 2016, that the portraits of Harriet Tubman and Andrew Jackson will “share” the twenty-dollar bill-which the latter has embodied for almost a century-highlights a glaring ...
Thompson Sheneese, Barchiesi Franco
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Reading Blackness as a Rhizome with Toni Morrison’s Preface to The Black Book
This teaching note proposes the teaching of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s concept of the rhizome in conversation with the marginalization of certain communities and their liberation from oppressive narratives and structures.
Laboni Mukherjee
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Political Blackness, British Cinema, and the Queer Politics of Memory
This essay queries “political Blackness” as a coalitional antiracist politics in England in the 1970s and 1980s. Contemporary debates on the relevance of political Blackness in contemporary British race politics often forget significant critiques of the ...
Ashvin Kini
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Opele Revisited: How Oceanic Blackness Impacts Student Belonging and Success
The Opele Report of 1992 provided a window into the concerns surrounding educational opportunities and quality of education for underrepresented Black students at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (UHM) (Takara, 1992, p. 4). By providing a comprehensive
Ethan Caldwell
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ABSTRACT Background Secretory phospholipase A2 (sPLA2) is an inflammatory mediator linked to acute chest syndrome (ACS) in sickle cell disease (SCD), a serious complication that can develop during an acute vaso‐occlusive pain episode (VOE). Plasma sPLA2 levels have been proposed as a potential biomarker for predicting ACS onset.
Rawan Korman +10 more
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A Whitened Rainbow: The In/visibility of Race and Racism in LGBTQ+ Higher Education Scholarship
Scholars critique LGBTQ+ social movements for failing to understand how oppressive systems like racism inform the experiences of LGBTQ+ community members.
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