President Truman transitioned from an initially more conservative policy advocated by white supremacists to a progressive one that promoted fairer social justice in the United States society, hitherto seldom heard. Through constitutional articles and debates, editorials, institutional records, speeches response some of World War II’s black veteran lynching cases, this paper aims explore Truman’...

This review essay presents exposition and analysis of Nasar Meer’s, The Cruel Optimism Racial Justice. I outline Meer’s argument detailing the historical emergence ongoing social reproduction racial injustice in relation to nation formation, endemic racism, health inequalities, restrictions on refugees asylum, White supremacism as pervasive throughout western societies. suggest that interventio...

Abstract This article offers a new interpretation of the Cuban intellectual José Martí's international political thought. It argues that analysis early US imperialism and call for Spanish American unity are best understood as an immanent critique “unionist paradigm,” tradition thought originated in independence movements. Martí recognized impediments racism had placed way both efforts to stabil...

This essay seeks to build on the concept of exterminism developed by E. P. Thompson in his 1980 New Left Review ‘Notes exterminism, last state civilization’. Thompson’s polemical focus weapons systems analysis was product a particular moment history; one where most precipitous threat human security Cold War. The exhaustionism this piece describes governance ideologies and frameworks found withi...

Among the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games' unforgettable moments, one could not overlook performances by Phelps and Bolt, which challenge old premises about the maximum extension of individual supremacism in ultracompetitive modalities and the doping scandals. Different media channels resonated these two trends, with an unseen rise on discussions about traits and practices that may set ultrah...

The main purpose of this paper is to examine the validity contention that, over past decades, we have been witnessing rise ‘posthuman condition’. To end, analysis draws on work contemporary philosopher Rosi Braidotti. divided into four parts. first part centres concept posthumanism, suggesting that it reflects a systematic attempt challenge humanist assumptions underlying construction ‘the huma...

The concept of encounter has long been central to a cosmopolitan ethos in which coming together urban public space is expected yield tolerance and pluralism. More recently scholars have reworked this account for not only what potentially transformative encounters but also how are conditioned by productive relations power inequality. Our study contributes reworking, feminist critiques politics, ...

This paper traces the recent turn to humour, irony and ambiguity embodied in adaptation of memes into repertoire online propaganda militant neo-Nazi group Nordic Resistance Movement; a process, we dub ‘memefication’ white supremacism. Drawing on combination quantitative visual content analysis (VCA) in-depth focused iconography symbolism, explore all (N = 634) created circulated by around 2018 ...