Showing posts with label sociology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sociology. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 24, 2024

Fanon the Universalist / The New York Review / Susan Neiman

"Fanon came to believe that colonialism was a system of pathological relations masquerading as normality." Adam Shatz argues in his new biography of Frantz Fanon that the supposed patron saint of political violence was instead a visionary of a radical universalism that rejected racial essentialism and colonialism. June 6, 2024 issue

(1901) William Hooper Councill’s Letter to the White People of Alabama

  Most scholars of today imagine Booker T. Washington as the major accommodationist and black political conservative of the era.  There we...