...W. E. B. Du Bois Excerpts from a Current History essay published in 1925. © 2023 by The Regents of the University of California 2023 West Africa France colonialism race How can this raising of the issue of color by colored folk be avoided? It can be avoided only by a social uplift...

... “the threats that people of our race are so frequently the victim of in this country.” Again, they were sentenced to prison for endorsing a movement that called for violence. Although their sentences were commuted, other accusations followed, and Flores Magón eventually died at Leavenworth Penitentiary...

...Hlonipha Mokoena The South African government’s COVID-19 pandemic response has revealed that the rhetoric and infrastructure of apartheid remain embedded in the emergency rule playbook. They also continue to influence citizens’ own responses to crises. South Africa apartheid race COVID-19...

... Guyana race politics energy industry colonialism In an ignominious first for the Commonwealth Caribbean, the aftermath of Guyana’s March 2020 general election dragged on with no officially declared result for five agonizing months. The voting itself had been long delayed: after the government...

... for propaganda purposes. terrorism extremism jihadism white supremacy race Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America Kathleen Belew Harvard University Press, 2018 The Caravan: Abdallah Azzam and the Rise of Global Jihad Thomas Hegghammer Cambridge...

... criminal justice police race Latin America Argentina Brazil United States 291 A few years back, when I interviewed a former Argentine official who had been brought in during the mid-1990s to clean house in the notoriously corrupt and violent police department of Buenos Aires province, he spoke...

...Roger Southall The precarity of daily existence for so many black middle-class South Africans is heightened by dependence on political connections. © 2019 Current History. All rights reserved. 2019 The Regents of the University of California Roger Southall South Africa apartheid race...

... © 2019 Current History. All rights reserved. 2019 The Regents of the University of California Sandra Greene book review Katherine Ann Wiley Work Social Status Gender Post-Slavery Mauritania slavery race class system social mobility women gender discrimination What...

... Brazil election military dictatorship Jair Bolsonaro Lula da Silva Dilma Rousseff impeachment corruption Worker's Party Rio de Janeiro crime race relations misogyny collective memory history transitional justice 68 A central feature of Bolsonaro s pro-dictatorship campaign...

... of California Xolela Mangcu South Africa Cyril Ramaphosa Jacob Zuma Thabo Mbeki African National Congress corruption Nelson Mandela institutions education race PERSPECTIVE A Fresh Start for South Africa? XOLELA MANGCU 194 In my book The Arrogance of Power: South Af-rica s Leadership...

...Katrin Hansing Afro-Cubans, who were once considered the backbone of the revolution, for the most part are being left out of the island's new opportunities … © 2018 Current History. All rights reserved. 2018 The Regents of the University of California Katrin Hansing Cuba racism race...

... , by Katherine S. Newman and Ariane De Lannoy . Beacon Press , 2014 . © 2015 Current History. All rights reserved. 2015 The Regents of the University of California Hlonipha Mokoena South Africa After Freedom Katherine Newman Ariane De Lannoy youth apartheid race book reviews...

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...Adam Isacson At a time when few traditional armed conflicts are under way, internal threats continue to anchor the missions of most Latin American and Caribbean militaries. Hugo Chávez militaries Latin America arms race Brazil Venezuela Chile Mexico Colombia Álvaro Uribe © 2011...