2023
1. May 24th 2023: Beyond Guilt and Privilege (Part 1)
Introduction and “Inventing Whiteness” from a collection of historical and contemporary texts on abolishing the white race.
2. May 31st 2023: Beyond Guilt and Privilege (Part 2)
“Abolishing Whiteness” from a collection of historical and contemporary texts on abolishing the white race.
3. June 7th 2023: The Racial Roots of Property by Vicky Osterweil
Exploring the fundamental intersection of property and white supremacy.
4. June 14th 2023: Subjects of Empire by Glen S. Coulthard
On Indigenous peoples and the politics of recognition in colonial contexts.
5. June 21st 2023: The Two-Headed Ogre of White Supremacy
Considering the effect of race on issues of borders and immigration.
6. June 28th 2023: The Invention of the White Race (Part 1) by Ted Allen
Summary of volume 1: Racial oppression and social control.
7. July 5th 2023: The Invention of the White Race (Part 2) by Ted Allen
Summary of volume 2: The origin of racial oppression in Anglo-America.
8. July 12th 2023: Case Sensitive by Nicholas Whittaker
What the debates on capitalizing the B can tell us about Blackness.
9. July 19th 2023: Traces of History by Patrick Wolfe
Introduction and Conclusion to a book on settler colonialism and the elementary structures of race.
10. July 26th 2023: In Praise of Treason by John Clegg
Reflecting on the life and work of Noel Ignatiev, who co-founded the journal “Race Traitor.”
11. August 2nd 2023: Whiteness is a War Measure by Peter Gelderloos
Race and racism in the transition from Obama to Trump to Biden.
12. August 9th 2023: Psychedelic White by Arun Saldanha
Introduction and “Freaking Whiteness” from a book on Goa trance and the viscosity of race.
13. August 16th 2023: Delusions of Progress by Saralee Stafford and Neal Shirley
On the police, their predecessors, and the white hell of civil society
14. August 23rd 2023: Rosa Luxemburg and the Primitive Accumulation of Whiteness by Siddhant Issar, Rachel H. Brown, and John McMahon
Theorizing the relationship between capital accumulation and constructions of race and whiteness.
15. August 30th 2023: Settlers on the Red Road by Tawinikay
A conversation on indigeneity, belonging, and responsibility.
16. September 6th 2023: Infrastructures of Race: Segregation by Daniel Nemser
On sovereignty, economy, and the problem with mixture.
17. September 13th 2023: On Difference Without Separability by Denise Ferreira da Silva
How the enlightenment shapes our understanding of race.
The First Year
1. May 25th 2022: The Point Is Not To Interpret Whiteness, But To Abolish It by Noel Ignatiev
Introduction to race treason.
2. June 1st 2022: Race and Organization After the George Floyd Uprising by Shemon
Introduction to our post-uprising situation and the urgency of thinking about race & race treason.
3. June 8th 2022: Accomplices Not Allies by Indigenous Action
Introductory critique of white/settler allyship.
4. June 15th 2022: The Return Of John Brown by Shemon & Arturo
Race treason in the nationwide George Floyd rebellion.
5. June 22nd 2022: Talk Amongst Yourselves by City Inhospitable
Intimate reflections on whiteness and race treason.
6. June 29th 2022: On Race Traitors, Identity Politics, and Revolutionary Horizons Since The Uprising by Idris Robinson
Critique of identity politics with race treason as an opposing framework.
7. July 6th 2022: Algeria’s European Minority by Frantz Fanon
Fanon’s perspective on French involvement in the Algerian revolution.
8. July 13th 2022: Separating Separatisms by Liaisons
What Quebecois nationalism and Indigenous sovereignty can tell us about treason to settler colonialism.
9. July 20th 2022: Race Treason Behind Prison Walls by Lorenzo Komboa Ervin & Staughton Lynd
What prison uprisings can tell us about race treason.
10. July 27th 2022: No Selves To Abolish by K. Aarons
What Afro-pessimism can tell us about white self-abolition.
11. August 3rd 2022: In The Wake Of An Erosion by Nevada
Race treason in the Minneapolis uprising and what Black optimism can tell us about race treason.
12. August 10th 2022: Lines Of Escape by Michelle Koerner
What George Jackson and Gilles Deleuze can tell us about disidentification with whiteness
13. August 17th 2022: False Nationalism, False Internationalism (Excerpts) by E. Tani and Kaé Sera
A Black nationalist critique of cross-racial solidarity.
14. August 24th 2022: The Limit Point Of Capitalist Equality by Chris Chen
A Marxist analysis of how race was and is produced.
15. August 31st 2022: Black Worker, White Worker by Noel Ignatiev
Resistance across racial lines in the factory.
On historical precedents for cross-racial resistance
16. September 14th 2022: ‘‘The Outcasts of the Nations of the Earth’’ by Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker
On the New York Conspiracy of 1741.
17. September 21st 2022: Our Thing Is DRUM by Dan Georgakas and Marvin Surkin
On the League of Revolutionary Black Workers.
18. September 28th 2022: The Real Resistance to Slavery in North America by Russell Maroon Shoatz
On the Great Dismal Swamp and other maroons.
Critical responses to “identity politics”
19. October 5th 2022: Being-in-the-Room Privilege by Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò
On standpoint epistemology and elite capture.
20. October 12th 2022: Who Is Oakland? by Croatoan
On the experience of Occupy Oakland.
21. October 19th 2022: Identity Politics by Asad Haider
On the racial ideologies of mass movements.