An archive for historian Jeff Guy (1940-2014)
“We know… but we don’t know.” These were words that we heard often from Jeff Guy
Politics
The Books of 2014
Christmas is coming, and like the German Bundesliga we’re going to be taking a wee break on
5 Questions for a Filmmaker: Philippe Lacôte
The Ivorian filmmaker wished he had made Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams, based on the filmmaker’s own dreams, when the fantastical infiltrates the real.
Explaining Racism to a White South African Liberal
Highlighting spectacular incidents of racial violence is that they overshadow the daily, unrecorded anti-black racist acts.
Black death and revolution
In the days leading up to the grand jury decisions in the separate murders of Mike
#ICANTBREATHE
One morning last semester at John Jay College in New York City, I asked my students
The Fate of la Francophonie
Do we still need an organization of France's former colonies? Whose interests does it actually serve?
The Gambia Gambit
There is a long-standing Norwegian tradition of externalizing racism, so that anti-black racism is always and inevitably located elsewhere.
The A to Z of Kenyan Twitter
“Twitter is going to change Kenya!” I declared in my presentation. We’d just set up a
Angola’s Flash Mobs
Should the tipping point against the MPLA - in power since independence - arrive in Angola, there are some activists ready to hit the ground, running.
Tony Blair Saves The Children of Africa
Interventionists across the political class in Europe and North America have comprehensively militarized the humanitarian enterprise
Remembering Mandela and Other Weekend Specials
Weekend Special is all that stuff we wanted to, but did not get around to writing about or just shared on social media.
Racial Degeneracy and Cowardice
The failure of Americans to have a concerted conversation on racism is not surprising. Too much is at stake for too many people, interests and institutions.
The University as a Place to Think
How we harness knowledge to the ethical injunctions we uphold against marginality, pain or suffering, on a global scale.
Remembering Differently
Slavery, despite its centrality to South Africa's founding, remains on the periphery of popular and institutional memory there.
Between polarization and transition
Brazil, under the Workers' Party, even if it’s still struggling with enormous poverty and social inequality, has managed to improve tremendously.
The guns in the shooting gallery
Mexico has never healed from the state violence that meets student revolts, dating back to 1968.
The Rise of Grace Mugabe of Zimbabwe
With the exception of Hillary Clinton’s attempt at entering politics during Bill Clinton’s first term as president there hasn’t been a more contentious First Lady.
Weekend Special, No 1002
A bunch of us went to the African Studies Association’s annual meeting in Indianapolis, Indiana. This
Apartheid Israel
Is it fair to compare Israel to Apartheid South Africa? And no, making the comparison is not antisemitic.