Django Unchained: Historical Inaccuracies and Racial Tropes Abound

by Prof. Karen Johnson Django Unchained, the latest film by Quentin Tarantino (QT), tells the story about a rescued enslaved person named Django (Jaime Foxx) who teams up with his rescuer, a German-immigrant bounty hunter, named Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz), in efforts to capture criminal fugitives ‘dead or alive’ as a way of acquiring [...]

Why Dr. Manning Marable’s Pulitzer Prize Is Well Deserved

Editor’s Note: Due to the reaction in the Black intellectual community over the posthumous awarding of  Dr. Manning Marable the Pulitzer prize, Polite On Society is initiating a discussion on it. In this post, we have tapped Prof. Karen Johnson of the University of Utah to inform us why the Pulitzer is deserved.  If anyone [...]