OpEd: Teen Vogue spoke with Robin D.G. Kelley about American fascism, the pitfalls of liberalism, and having no choice but to continue the fight.
that would ban teaching about the history of racism and slavery in the US. This rising fascism, though intensified, is part of a legacy of Anglo-colonization and puritanical hypocrisy.. The book, originally written and published in 2002, and written by my fellow California State University, Long Beach alumni Robin D.G. Kelley, has received renewed attention since the mass unrest of the summer of 2020, or as Kelley refers to it, the “Black Spring.
Kandist Mallett: I noticed that in your new intro you reference a lot of young academics, artists, and activists. What do you think the importance of cross-generational dialogues is in organizing spaces?. We have a kind of a mythology around movements being radical generational breaks. And one of the more recent examples is when I was in Ferguson and went to some of those sorts of backdoor meetings; it was people from every generation in conversation.
KM: Something that I’ve been trying to challenge myself on, which feels like is part of the essence of, is to push past despair and truly imagine another direction the future could go in.
We have this whole range of crises: the rise of fascism, climate catastrophe, the continuation of racism and state-sanctioned racist violence, the attempt to roll back any gender nonconformity, the crushing of feminism ideologically and otherwise in the attempt to take back public education, university education for right-wing and white supremacist causes. It's worse than some of the things that people faced in the past, but we don't have a choice. We have to fight for our own survival.
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