Racism Archives – Scalawag

The Captive Maternal is a function, not an identity marker

by Joy James April 28, 2023April 28, 2023

How Black caretakers navigate and negotiate their function in service, sacrifice, and struggle for liberation: Joy James on the Captive Maternal's journey through five stages of rebellion, resistance, and love.

Radical Care Work in the Project of Schooling

by Anna Almore April 7, 2023April 12, 2023

Love and War: Dialectics and the Stages of the Captive Maternal

by Ziyana Lategan April 5, 2023April 12, 2023

The Stakes of Revolution and the Death of Desire

by Da'Shaun Harrison March 31, 2023April 12, 2023

At the impasse of Revolution and Revolutionary Love

by RAW Wilcox March 30, 2023April 12, 2023

Contradictions and Convictions: Megan Thee Stallion and why abolition can't wait

by Da'Shaun Harrison February 14, 2023May 25, 2023

I grew up against a backdrop of white evangelical power. Florida's new CRT ban means even more Black students will, too.

by Sierra Lyons August 17, 2022August 16, 2022

Incoming students at Morehouse, a Historically Black college in Atlanta, Georgia, walk past a mural depicting Black history on their way to New Student Orientation 2021. Credit: Photo via Morehouse College on Facebook.

Southern Politics

'Who keeps us safe?' An HBCU roundtable on violence and accountability

by Ko Bragg, Adam Harris, Da'Shaun Harrison, Noella Williams and Alexis Wray February 25, 2022March 9, 2022

Scalawag Updates

Ending white supremacist violence will take all of us

by Cierra Hinton March 19, 2021March 19, 2021

Consuming Blackness in 'progressive' West Virginia

by Crystal Good March 5, 2021

'Pure America': Eugenics past and present

by Adam Willems March 2, 2021March 3, 2021

When God Calls My Name

by Ashley M. Jones January 11, 2021October 4, 2021

Meet the Southern librarians fighting for racial justice and truth-telling

by Jason Christian December 29, 2020January 11, 2021

Southern Politics

What you need to know about the new prosecutor on the Ahmaud Arbery case

by Rory Fleming June 1, 2020September 16, 2020

During Civil Rights Era, Native American Communities in the South Armed Themselves Against the Klan

by Malinda Maynor Lowery January 20, 2020July 20, 2021

None of Our Memories: Part 2

by Anna Badkhen August 12, 2019September 16, 2020

None of Our Memories

by Anna Badkhen July 29, 2019September 16, 2020

Southern Politics

"If we win here, we can win anywhere"

by Anna Simonton April 8, 2019September 16, 2020

Toppling giants: painting the removal of confederate monuments

by Ben Hamburger January 14, 2019September 16, 2020

Southern Politics

Last year, white nationalists staged a fatal race rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. The location was no coincidence.

by Frederick Coye Heard August 13, 2018September 16, 2020

Blind Spots: Selective Memory in Brazilian and U.S. Histories

by Andrew Jenner June 25, 2018October 1, 2020

THE POET INTERVIEWS THE GHOST OF VESTER FLANAGAN

by Xandria Phillips May 16, 2018October 31, 2022

Wet Dogs

by Danielle P. Williams May 9, 2018September 16, 2020

In Montgomery, a harrowing, beautiful reckoning with racial terror

by Sammy Feldblum May 8, 2018October 1, 2020

Love notes and protests

by Isaac S. Villegas December 5, 2017October 1, 2020

White skin

by Isaac S. Villegas September 26, 2017October 1, 2020

Southern Politics

Durham activists rally to support those charged with felonies for pulling down a confederate statue

by Lauren Barber August 23, 2017September 16, 2020

Southern Politics

Want to beat racism? Stop labeling people as racists, and start asking better questions.

by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva February 7, 2017September 16, 2020

Southern Politics

Race and the great American adventure

by Amien Essif May 13, 2016December 3, 2020

Covering the Chapel Hill shooting as a Muslim journalist

by Reema Khrais March 3, 2016October 1, 2020