Touré F. Reed

Jan 22, 2024 | dissentmagazine.org | Erin Pineda |Jared Loggins |Touré F. Reed |Joshua Zeitz

The Freedom to Dominate When we view federal authority as a bulwark for civil rights against local tyranny, we miss what the U.S. government has done to sustain white freedom both domestically and abroad. ▪ Winter 2024 Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Powerby Jefferson CowieBasic Books, 2022, 512 pp.

Nov 6, 2023 | fuckingcancelled.com | Fucking Cancelled |Jay Lesoleil |Clementine Morrigan |Touré F. Reed

Jul 6, 2023 | smirkingchimp.com | Touré F. Reed

Like many Americans, I was and remain enthralled by the coverage of the OceanGate Titan tragedy. Although death defying adventures are both above my paygrade and antithetical to my risk-averse temperament, the flood of articles and nonstop cable news segments on OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, his victims, and the Titan rescue and recovery efforts piqued my interest because they are palpable expressions of the lives we do and do not value.

Jul 5, 2023 | commondreams.org | Touré F. Reed

Toure F. Reed is a Professor of 20th Century US and Afro-American History at Illinois State University. He has published in the Journal of American Ethnic History, LABOR, Nonsite.org, Jacobin, The Nation, Common Dreams, and The New Republic. Dr. Reed is the author of Not Alms But Opportunity: The Urban League and the Politics of Racial Uplift, 1910-1950 (UNC Press) and Toward Freedom: The Case Against Race Reductionism (Verso Books).