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Colin Jenkins

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

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Dec 10, 2017
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
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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
Truthout
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
Truthout
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
Truthout
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
Truthout
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
Truthout
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
Truthout
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
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