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May-June 2022, Issue 8
A Tale of Two Diseases – and of Race and Racism
Jan Rybak
The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has not only caused human tragedy, suffering, and death, and changed the everyday lives of people in ways that seemed unimaginable before; it also brought forth a concerning wave of xenophobia and racism, targeting suspected or imagined carriers of the disease.
Read moreThe Psychiatry of Resistance in Colonial Algeria
Fella Benabed
How a socio-political psychiatrist’s experience in the French colonies of North Africa taught him that colonisation, with its underlying racism, is “a great purveyor of psychiatric hospitals.”
Read moreRace and the Original Moderates
Nicholas Mithen
In his Letter from Birmingham Jail, Martin Luther King railed against “the white moderate… more devoted to “order” than to justice”. For MKL, the liberal appeal to moderation in the resistance against racial oppression worked to enable racial injustice.
Read moreBREXIT Britain, Medieval Echoes
Kerice Doten-Snitker
“We send the EU £350 million a week – let’s fund our NHS instead – Vote Leave – Let’s take back control”
Back in 2016, this slogan made headlines as it travelled across Great Britain on a red bus.
Read moreBeing Human in Ancient Rome: ‘Homo sum, humani nil a me alienum puto’?
Susan Lape
Definitions of humankind have long been deployed to elevate some ‘humans’ over others, and the animal kingdom. Plus, local and partial conceptions of the human being are often presented as universal.
Read moreBlackness in Early Modern Morocco
Gretchen Head
Blackness occupies a global position that resists analogy. This is the idea, central to Frank B. Wilderson’s Afropessimism, that is illustrated by an unsettling autobiographical scene in the book’s opening pages.
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