Contemporary Racial Moods

Contemporary Racial Moods

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4. Fighting for Humanity in the Age of the Machine.

Rutger Bregman's 2025 Reith Lectures, called "Moral Revolution", explore the moral decay and un-seriousness of today's elites, drawing historical parallels to past eras of corruption that preceded transformative movements especially the 19th Century campaign to abolish slavery. I ...  Afficher plus

3. A conspiracy of decency

Dutch historian Rutger Bregman's 2025 Reith Lectures, called "Moral Revolution", explore the moral decay and un-seriousness of today's elites. He argues that small, committed groups can spark moral revolutions, emphasizing the importance of perseverance and long-term vision. In t ...  Afficher plus

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The Absurdities of Race
The LRB Podcast

Adam Shatz talks to Paul Gilroy about his intellectual background and the recent anti-racist protests in the UK and US. They discuss Gilroy’s experience growing up in North London in the 1950s and 1960s, the influence of African-American culture on his understanding of racial ord ...  Afficher plus

#75 - Race, le mot qui fâche
Kiffe ta race

En France, le mot race fait peur. Si peur que l'Assemblée Nationale a voulu le rayer de la Constitution, et que le prononcer, même dans un usage critique, ferait de vous un·e ennemi·e de la République. Pourtant, la notion de race est essentielle pour analyser ...

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Race Issues
Dear HBR:

How does race affect your workplace? Dan and Alison answer your questions with the help of Tina Opie, a management professor at Babson College. They talk through what to do when your company's board is not diverse, promotions favor some people more than others, or you want to hav ...  Afficher plus

Musab Younis, "On the Scale of the World: The Formation of Black Anticolonial Thought" (U California Press, 2022)
New Books in Caribbean Studies

On the Scale of the World: The Formation of Black Anticolonial Thought (U California Press, 2022) examines the reverberations of anticolonial ideas that spread across the Atlantic between the two world wars. From the 1920s to the 1940s, Black intellectuals in Europe, Africa, and ...  Afficher plus