The Unbearable Affront of Colorism
Banah al Ghadbanah on the scourge of racism/colorism in Syrian communities and how it is tied to centuries-old endemic anti-Blackness and internalized colonialism.
Banah al Ghadbanah on the scourge of racism/colorism in Syrian communities and how it is tied to centuries-old endemic anti-Blackness and internalized colonialism.
"It's impossible not to think about race in relation to the United States these days," writes Paris correspondent Monique El-Faizy in this review of Isabel Wilkerson's "Caste."
Rebecca Allamey reviews "The Limits of Whiteness" by sociologist Neda Maghbouleh, who argues that a white American immigrant group has the transformative power to become brown.
Rana Asfour reviews White Tears/Brown Scars by Ruby Hamad—"an explosive book of history and cultural criticism" that argues "white feminism has been a weapon of white supremacy and patriarchy deployed against black and indigenous women, and women of color."