Let's Talk About Race

Political equality is the most basic tenet of democracy. Yet in America and other democratic nations, those with political power have special acces...

Translated by Laurent Dubois In Critique of Black Reason eminent critic Achille Mbembe offers a capacious genealogy of the category of Blackness-fr...

Bryan Stevenson has committed his career to fighting wrongful convictions, systemic poverty, and mass incarceration—here, he shares the lessons he'...

Increasingly, the demands of identity direct the world's politics. Nation, religion, sect, race, ethnicity, gender: these categories have overtaken...

In Necropolitics Achille Mbembe, a leader in the new wave of francophone critical theory, theorizes the genealogy of the contemporary world, a worl...

Written in 1957, when North African independence movements were gaining momentum, The Colonizer and the Colonized studies the enduring legacy, poli...

Written at the height of the Algerian war for independence from French colonial rule and first published in 1961, Frantz Fanon's classic text has p...

White Backlash provides an authoritative assessment of how immigration is reshaping the politics of the nation. Using an array of data and analysis...

This is the century of whiteshift. As Western societies are becoming increasingly mixed-race, demographic change is transforming politics. Over hal...