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National Book Award-winning Historian @HowardU • 11x NYT Bestselling Author • MacArthur Fellow. 🐍🦁🦬
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Today, as my newest book is released, nearly three-fourths of the world’s people live under authoritarian rule. Many of those authoritarian rulers are pushing a conspiracy theory that tells people that their life, their job, their status, their nation is all being lost, slipping away. And that immigrants, Muslims, Black people, women, queer people, and other disadvantaged groups are taking it all and taking over. All to distract from the oligarchs who are really taking it all and taking over. All to enrage everyday people. All so raging people can demand authoritarian protection from these purported replacers.

This is the world’s most dominant and dangerous idea. And it has a name: GREAT REPLACEMENT THEORY. Authoritarian oligarchs and politicians—and their propagandists—have gone to great lengths to deny and conceal the great replacement theory animating their politics. Because they likely know its horrific history. Because they certainly know we can’t resist an ideological force we can’t recognize, we don’t name.

Until now. Introducing Chain of Ideas: The Origins of Our Authoritarian Age. My most clarifying and urgent and timely book to date. Chain of Ideas—one of the most anticipated books of the year—is out today.

Order at the link below or wherever books are sold.

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Some of the most eminent Black voices of our time reckoning with and rewriting the Declaration of Independence. For the crisis of our present moment. For the promise of our collective liberation.

Introducing OUR DECLARATIONS OF INDEPENDENCE, edited by Angela T. Rye. I had the honor of writing the prologue.

OUR DECLARATIONS is out 1.12.27 and available for preorder now.
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Racism endangers Black people. Racism especially endangers Black people who are too good. Racist resentment always ends up coming to take us down, take us out. Whether we are 63 years old, 33 years old, or 3 years old.
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The U.S. is investigating 9 universities over “visa fraud.” On Thursday, JD Vance said J-1 visas for international college students “undercut the wages of American grad students and American researchers.” He also said companies use H-1B visas to “replace” Americans with “foreign indentured servants.” In fact, corporations have stagnated wages under his watch. And his regime has cut university research funding, leading to layoffs of U.S. researchers and declines in U.S. grad students.
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