Antiracism: An Introduction

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¹ Prominent among these are Robin Diangelo, White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism (Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2018), Carol Anderson, White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of our Racial Divide (New York, NY: Bloomsbury Press, 2016), Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Color-Blindness in an Age of Incarceration (New York, NY: The New Press, 2012).

² One notable exception is Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s powerful and timely From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation (Chicago, IL: Haymarket Press, 2016).

³ Zamalin’s use of an intellectual history is similar to Stephen Eric Bronner’s Reclaiming the Enlightenment: Toward a Politics of Radical Engagement (New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2004).

⁴ Rebecca Solnit, Hope In The Dark (Chicago, IL: Haymarket Books, 2016).

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Alix Olson

Alix Olson is assistant professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Emory University’s Oxford College. Olson’s work has been published in journals including New Political Science and Wagadu: Journal of International Women’s and Gender Studies, and in the collection Agitation with a Smile: Howard Zinn’s Legacy of Activism. Her book project, The Promises of Resilience: Governance and Resistance in Complex Times, explores the ways in which the concept of “resilience” is reshaping our understanding of ourselves, the world around us, and possibilities for political action. Alix is also an internationally-acclaimed spoken word artist-activist who is the editor of Word Warriors: 35 Women Leaders in the Spoken Word Revolution.