So, apparently, it's a new thing to discuss how horrible US slavery was. Glad someone is finally doing it.

And to discuss all the economic growth and wealth generated by it. Novel idea. Again, glad it's getting done.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/04/books/the-half-has-never-been-told-follows-the-money-of-slavery.html?src=me&module=Ribbon&version=origin&region=Header&action=click&contentCollection=Most%20Emailed&pgtype=article

"Abolitionist or Terrorist?"

"Historic" Charleston, South Carolina's continued soft-pedaling of the atrocity that was US slavery:


http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/26/opinion/abolitionist-or-terrorist.html?action=click&contentCollection=Opinion&region=Footer&module=MoreInSection&pgtype=article

President Obama and US Racial Fantasies

I used to teach Benito Cereno, by Herman Melville, in a graduate course on the making of race in the US. Read the following for an Emperor's New Clothes calling out of the racism that underlies many criticisms of President Obama:

"Obama, Melville and the Tea Party"

What Does Our Prison Population Say About US/U.S.?

According to this NYT opinion piece, John Dewey once said, “[T]he best way to judge a culture is to see what kind of people are in the jails.”

What does our prison population say about US?

Analyzing the prison industrial complex through political theory.

And what's a racial democracy anyway?

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/01/12/is-the-united-states-a-racial-democracy/