Put Some Knowledge in Your Pocket!
ChangeLab is grateful to our comrades at If You Don’t They Will for creating this awesome portable resource for understanding and defeating white nationalism. Download it, print it double-sided, and fold it into a pocket-sized guide! If You Don’t They Will is a collaboration that provides concrete and creative tools to counter white nationalism through a […]
Antisemitism Is Racism
I believe that the reason that so many progressives, including racial justice progressives, don’t understand the threat of antisemitism and even, really, that antisemitism is in fact racism!!! is that we understand racism wrong, or at least incompletely. Here’s what I mean. U.S. residents, for the most part, think of racism in terms of effects […]
On 50th anniversary of MLK assassination, ICE deports Khmer refugees to Cambodia
By Sina Sam* and Soya Jung Today, the United States is scheduled to deport 43 Khmer refugees on a flight from El Paso, Texas to Cambodia. Some reportedly have significant mental and physical disabilities. The fact that these deportations are taking place today, on the 50th anniversary of the murder of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. […]
![[National Guardsmen patrol near Martin Luther King Blvd. and Vermont Avenue as a mini-mart burns in Los Angeles on May 1, 1992.]](https://www.racefiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Sa-I-Gu-national-guard-275x190.jpg "Twenty-Five Years after Sa-I-Gu: Multiracial Politics in Times of Crisis")
Twenty-Five Years after Sa-I-Gu: Multiracial Politics in Times of Crisis
This is a transcript of a panel discussion that ChangeLab convened at last year’s Association of Asian American Studies (AAAS) Conference in Portland, OR. It was first published in Kalfou: A Journal of Comparative and Relational Studies, Volume 4, no. 2 (Fall 2017) and is republished here with permission. Soya: Good afternoon, and thank […]
Navigating the Pro-Democracy and Antiracist Struggle Ahead
These are volatile times, rife with both grave dangers and progressive possibilities. To help prepare for the long pro-democracy and antiracist struggle ahead of us, ChangeLab is sharing this small downloadable/printable discussion guide, written by Scot Nakagawa and Suzanne Pharr. We hope it’s useful. Stay tuned for more tools and resources, and please […]
The Dumb Prof Considers Intersectionality in the Age of Trump
Introduction: the dumb prof takes on intersectionality Among decent, intelligent, and respectable human beings in the United States and around the world, the occupation of Donald Trump of the American presidency is the shock that never ends. Much of this has to do with how vulgar the man is. The New York Times has religiously […]
A White Gay Male Faction of White Nationalism is Rising and No, That’s Not a Joke
Donna Minkowitz writes in Slate about the emergence of a white gay male alt-right/white nationalist/neo-Nazi front using camp and sex to attract recruits. As counter-intuitive as the idea of a gay white nationalist movement may be, this development is very dangerous, making the article, IMO, a must-read for all who are fearful of white nationalism. […]
Hearts open, fists up: the color line
I was asked to share the following mashup of an essay titled “The Endurance of the Color Line” published in the journal Othering & Belonging: Expanding the Circle of Human Concern and remarks I gave as part of a public talk called “Hearts Open, Fists Up” at Central Washington University in Ellensburg, WA. I would love to hear […]
100+ Asian American & Pacific Islander Organizations Pledge to Resist Repression Under Trump Administration
As Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, We Will Resist We stand at a critical juncture in world history. The election of Donald Trump as president of the United States represents a direct threat to millions of people’s safety and to the health of the planet. As Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) committed to equality, […]
The Anti-Fascist Scouting Report: What The Left Can Learn From the Right
The leadership of the Christian Right has conjured what amounts to a resurrection of a wide array of threat vectors targeting LGBTQ people. They accomplished this by backing Trump’s candidacy and leading, by some accounts, more than 80% of white, self-identified evangelical voters to back him in the election. By allying themselves with Trump, evangelical […]
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