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Nate Parker, Rape Culture, and Toxic Masculinity

August 20, 2016August 20, 2016 Deirdre Cooper Owens Nat Turner, Nate Parker, rape

Over the past seventy-two hours, the Internet has been abuzz over Nate Parker’s involvement in a seventeen-year-old rape case.  Journalists

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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,

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Fall Teaching in a Trump Climate

August 7, 2016August 6, 2016 Chernoh Sesay Jr. black intellectual history, Donald Trump, Politics, teaching

As the summer comes to an end and I begin to think about teaching in the fall, I wonder how

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Race and Radicalism in Puerto Rico: An Interview with Carlos Alamo-Pastrana

August 2, 2016August 2, 2016 Devyn Spence Benson Black radicalism, empire, Puerto Rican history, Puerto Rico

This month I interviewed Dr. Carlos Alamo-Pastrana about his new book, Seams of Empire: Race and Radicalism in Puerto Rico

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Global 2016 and the Radical Imagination

July 20, 2016July 17, 2016 Russell Rickford #BlackLivesMatter, police brutality, police violence

“We have a duty to fight for our freedom. We have a duty to win.” – Assata Shakur Watching the

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