September 2015

Pranav Kohli
Solidarity or Saviors? A Race Critical Review of "India’s Daughter"
September 24, 2015
This is a race critical review of the BBC documentary India’s Daughter . It seeks to examine the orientalism inherent in this documentary’s...
Brenda Marie Osbey, Frank X Walker, E. Ethelbert Miller, Afaa M. Weaver, Duriel E. Harris, Major Jackson
Poets Respond to Violence Against African Americans
September 21, 2015
Introduction ABSENT TREES AND ROPE By Brenda Marie Osbey From May through October, whites beat, stabbed, shot, lynched , burned at the...
Mike Allison
Guatemala's Fight to End Impunity
September 21, 2015
Just days after jubilantly celebrating the resignation and arrest of its former president, retired general Otto Perez Molina, approximately...
Henry A. Giroux
Schools as Punishing Factories: The Case of Ahmed Mohamed
September 16, 2015
World renowned author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o observed that “Children are the future of any society [and that] if you want to know the future of...
Hatem Bazian
ISIS’s compounded ignorance is criminal, but not a theology
September 11, 2015
The recent New York Times article “ ISIS Enshrines a Theology of Rape ”, exposing the group’s attempt to provide a religious...
Warscapes
"Refugees": Some Poems
September 7, 2015
Warscapes editors choose poems that reflect on home, exile, journeys, war and humanity in light of the current refugee crisis. Crossings By...
Fabio Andres Diaz
Peace, Justice, and Reparations in Colombia
September 7, 2015
One of the most important—if not the most important—elements animating the current peace process between the FARC and government...
Mike Allison
Guatemala: Elections amid Uncertainty
September 5, 2015
Guatemalans head to the polls today to elect a president and vice president, 158 members of Congress, 333 mayors and municipal councils,...