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From this place, and from this day forth begins a new era in the history of the world, and you can all say that you were present at its birth. -– Goethe

We’re the first potential parents who can contain the ancestral house. -- Wilson Harris, The Whole Armour

America is the smart-aleck adolescent who’s “been around” and has his own hot rod. -– Ishmael Reed

Elan Abrell is a PhD candidate in Anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY) and a teaching adjunct at CUNY’s Hunter College. He holds a JD from Boalt Hall School of Law, the University of California at Berkeley (elanabrell@gmail.com).

Douglass W. Greene graduated from Salem State College with a BA in History. He lives in Reading, Massachusetts (thed15@aol.com).

We propose that the current discourse on fascism has arisen from a general crisis of Pax Americana arising from a convergence of developments, long-term and short, pervading the social order and thus rendering much of it dysfunctional and dystopian. In short, the general crisis is the state of Pax Americana in irreversible economic and political decline.

Margaret Walker is the most famous person nobody knows. –- Nikki Giovanni

I see a woman with wings
trying to escape from a cage
and the cage door
has fallen on her wings.
They are long wings
which drag on the ground
when she stands up,
but she hasn’t enough strength
to pull them away
from the weight of the cage door,
she is caught and held by her wings.
–- Langston Hughes

Introduction

Introduction

Fascism is an important political category, but a confusing one. People use the word fascism in many different ways, and often without a clear sense of what it means.

9/11: It’s a different world, ain’t it? Shocked and stunned. And it took that for white folks to realize we’re human beings. Because they were so worried about us. America is so worried about black folks. They were so worried about the land niggers they forgot about the sand niggers. -– Paul Mooney