Colin Jenkins

Colin Jenkins is founder, editor, and Social Economics Department chair at the Hampton Institute.

Latest from Colin Jenkins

Interview

Burning Down the American Plantation: An Interview With the Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement

Members of the Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement discuss their movement.

by: Colin Jenkins,; The Hampton Institute

September 16, 2017

News

Politics & Elections

Americanism Personified: Why Fascism Has Always Been an Inevitable Outcome of the American Project

As a settler-colonial project steeped in white supremacist domination and capitalist ideals, the US is and always has been an ideal fascist breeding ground.

by: Colin Jenkins,; The Hampton Institute

June 24, 2017

News Analysis

Environment & Health

Meet the New Boss: Bracing for Trump’s Anti-Worker, Corporate Agenda

Trump’s economic plan does nothing to stray from the corporate-friendly neoliberal agenda of the past three decades.

by: Colin Jenkins,; Social Justice

January 25, 2017

Op-Ed

Zombie Apocalypse and the Politics of Artificial Scarcity

The widespread deployment of apocalyptic fear ultimately keeps us in our place, and out of the business of those who own our worlds.

by: Colin Jenkins,; The Hampton Institute

December 30, 2014

Op-Ed

Undercover in White America: Why Black Rage Is Conscious, Justified and Long Overdue

“I am still ‘undercover in White America.’ Citizens in Ferguson, Missouri are not. And their rage is not ‘senseless’ or ‘visceral’; it is the product of a life…

by: Colin Jenkins,; The Hampton Institute

August 27, 2014

News Analysis

Coming Home to Roost: American Militarism, War Culture and Police Brutality

Regardless of a police officer’s own ethnicity or socioeconomic background, it is the role that ultimately represents a virtual arm of white supremacy and class oppression.

by: Colin Jenkins,; The Hampton Institute

March 16, 2014

News Analysis

On the Front Lines of Class War: Why the Fight for a Livable Wage Is Everyone’s Fight

Recent developments stemming from “solidarity unionism,” low-wage worker revolts, and a backlash against neoliberal policies have shown that American workers are beginning to “rise like lions after slumber.”

by: Colin Jenkins,; The Hampton Institute

December 25, 2013

Op-Ed

Political Crossover: The Troubling Emergence of “Black Reaganism“

As President Obama espouses about equality while ignoring the systems of inequality prevalent within society, a new brand of Reaganism emerges.

by: Colin Jenkins,; The Hampton Institute

June 25, 2013