Politics & Society White Freedom Invades the US Capitol The “defense of freedom” by rioters at the US Capitol was in fact a battle for white freedom – a struggle to preserve white privilege and racial dominance over a changing nation.
Politics & Society White Privilege in the Time of COVID-19 Back in March, Kayla Williams, a Black British woman from South London, died. Only a day after calling 999. Even though her symptoms were serious and clearly suggested a Covid-19 infection, the paramedics ranked her case as “not a priority”.
Arts & Humanities Slavery and the Black Presence in Spanish Golden-Age Literature So far, scholars have had surprisingly little to say about Zaide, a black character that appears in the famous novel Lazarillo de Tormes. So how does the figure of a black slave fit into a canonical work of Spanish Golden-Age letters?
Politics & Society Class Did Matter in the Election, But Not in the Way We Expected The problem in understanding Donald Trump’s election may be our simplistic expectations rather than how the working class actually voted.