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Mass Incarceration and Its Mystification: A Review of The 13th

October 22, 2016July 12, 2017 Dan Berger carceral state

When prisoners in Alabama last spring proposed a national strike to protest “prison slavery,” they called out the infamous clause

The Mundane and Extraordinary Aspects of Black Women’s History: An Interview with Kali Nicole Gross

September 20, 2016September 20, 2016 Ashley Farmer Black women, black women scholars, reconstruction

This month I interviewed Kali Nicole Gross about her new book, Hannah Mary Tabbs and the Disembodied Torso (Oxford University Press, 2016). Dr. Gross is

Shifting Ground: Writing Working-Class Black Women’s History from Below

September 8, 2016September 3, 2016 Talitha LeFlouria Black women, Harlem, New York

Today is the fourth day of our roundtable on LaShawn Harris’s new book, Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners: Black

“Racial Strife That’s Making Milwaukee Infamous”–Then and Now

September 3, 2016September 1, 2016 Mark Speltz NAACP, police brutality

Many Americans have read or seen the fiery aftermath following the recent police killing of Sylville Smith, but few are

Lessons in Law and Order Politics

August 9, 2016July 12, 2017 Dan Berger criminal justice system, democracy

While many commentators have juxtaposed the bizarre hilarity of the Republican National Convention to the carefully crafted Democratic National Convention,