Authors / Ben Ratskoff
Ben Ratskoff is an assistant professor in the Critical Theory & Social Justice department at Occidental College.
Conversation
Difference Without Power
In her recent book, The Reeducation of Race, Sonali Thakkar excavates the mid-century roots of contemporary liberal anti-racism.
Ben Ratskoff December 17, 2024
Conversation
Reading Baldwin After Kanye
A conversation about James Baldwin’s 1967 essay, “Negroes are Anti-Semitic Because They are Anti-White.”
nyle fort, Marc Lamont Hill, Daniel May, Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, and Ben Ratskoff September 28, 2023
Report
Can the Palestinian Belong to a Universal History?
Yazan Khalili on how German media used a smear campaign to disrupt the exhibition documenta.
Ben Ratskoff July 28, 2022
Essay
Against Analogy
To build solidarity in this moment, white Jews should resist the impulse to highlight similarities between histories of antisemitism and anti-Blackness.
Ben Ratskoff June 9, 2020