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Racial justice

A new issue of African American Review is now online. Andre Douglas Pond Cummings (West Virginia): A Furious Kinship: Critical Race Theory and the Hip Hop Nation. Yes, the Tea Party images of Obama as a witch doctor, and Fox News' endless racist antics, are highly problematic, but when it comes to dehumanizing black people, hip-hop wins, hands down. A review of Renewing Black Intellectual History: The Ideological and Material Foundations of African American Thought. Cognitive dissonance and historically black colleges: Should all-black colleges exist in 2010? A review of Because of Race: How Americans Debate Harm and Opportunity in Our Schools by Mica Pollock. A review of Disintegration: The Splintering of Black America by Eugene Robinson. The first chapter from The Imperative of Integration by Elizabeth Anderson. An excerpt from Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918 by Jeffrey B. Perry. A review of At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance — A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power by Danielle L. McGuire. Stuff White People Do: How do justice-focused whites fit into the struggle against racism in America? Mark R. Warren on his book Fire in the Heart: How White Activists Embrace Racial Justice. Joseph Crespino analyzes the addition of Strom Thurmond's African American daughter's name to his South Carolina State House statue.