Editor’s note: The following is a guest essay by Kurt Newman, PhD candidate at UC Santa Barbara. Whiteness as Intellectual Property: Some Notes Towards a History of Copyright Law’s Racial Unconscious by Kurt Newman As a left historian working on the history of intellectual property (IP), few recent events have been as heartening as the appearance of a special section of Jacobin magazine dedicated to the politics of copyright and patent law. Jacobin, as readers of this site surely know, has emerged in recent months as a force in new new left journalism, attracting deserved attention as a key site Read more