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This election year, two women of South Asian descent—Kamala Harris and Usha Vance—take center stage. What can their identities tell us about their approach?

By neglecting the history of the Black diaspora, Isabel Wilkerson's "Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents" fails to reckon with systems of racial capitalism.

The celebration of Isabel Wilkerson’s ‘Caste’ reflects the continued priority of elite preferences over the needs and struggles of ordinary people.

Liberalism’s relationship to equality has, his­torically, been far from a warm embrace.

Activists including W. E .B. Du Bois in the United States and Lajpat Rai in India drew connections between Black American and Indian experiences of white rule.

A conversation on Du Bois' perspective on empire and democracy, the development of his anti-imperial thought, and his vision for transnational solidarity.

Of course, Juneteenth should be recognized as a Black holiday belonging to Black people. But this is not a day purely of joyful celebration.

After the Capitol was cleared of insurrectionists on January 6, it wasn't lost on many that cleaning up the mess would fall largely to Black and Brown people.

Using manumission to disentangle blackness and enslavement in Cuba, Louisiana, and Virginia.

On the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments, racism, and federal power.

Where conservatives may seek to conserve their democratic systems, reactionaries by their nature seek to weaken or abolish them.

On American history and the history of the word “America.”

The story of Swami Vivekananda and his time in America.

Tufts Professor Kris Manjapra examines the history of the injustice of abolition in the U.S. and abroad and the need for reparations in his new book.

From origin stories to blood-purity statutes, we have long enlisted genealogy to serve our own purposes.

The property values of the popular game reflect a legacy of racism and inequality.

Many of us are unaware of the special circumstances that eased our entry into American life—and of the bonds we share with other nonwhite groups.

Imported from Europe, the custom of leaving gratuities began spreading in the U.S. post-Civil War. It was loathed as a master-serf custom.

Arabness, Blackness, and the figure of terror.