Beyond Life in the United States: An Essay for My Mother
What started as an annual means of escaping winter may have morphed into a permanent escape from racist America.
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The End Of Black Aesthetics As I’ve Known It
Academia is sometimes upheld as a place to explore new possibilities and challenge the status quo. In this eulogy to his Black Aesthetics course, Anthony Kwame Harrison laments the dwindling space for subversive Black expression in contemporary universities.
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The Inconvenience of Black America
The idea of an America without Black people has a long history in the white national imagination. While often dismissed as an “absurdist fantasy,” as the US approaches its semiquincentennial, a new, more complex, but equally irrational version has appeared.
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The Favorite White Boy List
Recently, a friend invited me to contribute to one of those end-of-the-year, best-of lists—a curious endeavor for 2020 of all years. In this instance, the items on the list were pre-set and included such things as best book, best podcast, and best recipe. While flipping through my Moleskine notebook, searching for an empty page to
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