Pasts Imperfect
A Pox by Any Other Name
The naming of a virus referenced a world of racist social thinking masquerading as science
- Rafia Zakaria
Reckonings with the decisive role of race and social power in America’s history and present
Pasts Imperfect
Majority Rule on the Brink
Annette Gordon-Reed discusses the legacies of our racial past, and the prospects ahead for embattled republic
- Chris Lehmann
Pasts Imperfect
Juneteenth and the Fables of Emancipation
Excavating the brutal social truths beneath a holiday of uplift
- Anthony Conwright
Pasts Imperfect
Bridging the Juneteenth Gender Gap
How the urgent demands of Black feminism can help complete the unfinished work of emancipation
- Nicole Young
Pasts Imperfect
Minority Rule(s)
Georgia’s competitive runoff election is the result of centuries of white supremacist efforts
- Anthony Conwright
Pasts Imperfect
The Black Antifascist Roots of Black August
How the legacy of George Jackson and other radical political prisoners speak to a new age of authoritarian retrenchment
- Jeanelle K. Hope
Pasts Imperfect
Majority Rule on the Brink
Annette Gordon-Reed discusses the legacies of our racial past, and the prospects ahead for embattled republic
- Chris Lehmann
Pasts Imperfect
A Pox by Any Other Name
The naming of a virus referenced a world of racist social thinking masquerading as science
- Rafia Zakaria
Pasts Imperfect
Bridging the Juneteenth Gender Gap
How the urgent demands of Black feminism can help complete the unfinished work of emancipation
- Nicole Young
Pasts Imperfect
Juneteenth and the Hazards of Ceremonial Forgetting
On Juneteenth, political leadership must grapple with the intersecting crisis of racism and tyranny in the wake of January 6, instead of simply celebrating a holiday.
- Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw
Pasts Imperfect
Juneteenth and the Fables of Emancipation
Excavating the brutal social truths beneath a holiday of uplift
- Anthony Conwright
Pasts Imperfect
Memorializing a Medical Predator
J. Marion Sims’ all-too-slow fall from scientific renown speaks volumes about the institutions that shore up white male impunity
- J.C. Hallman
