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Attica: The Present and the Recent Past

June 4, 2020June 2, 2020 LaShawn Harris carceral state, criminal justice system, mass incarceration, Resistance

This week we’re revisiting Heather Ann Thompson’s Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy (Pantheon Books, 2016). Today

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Contesting State Violence in and Beyond the Archive

June 2, 2020June 1, 2020 Dan Berger

This week we’re revisiting Heather Ann Thompson’s Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy (Pantheon Books, 2016). Today

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Occupied Territory: An Author’s Response

April 10, 2020April 5, 2020 Simon Balto #AAIHSRoundtable, #OccupiedTerritory, Chicago, police brutality, police violence, policing

*This post is part of our joint online roundtable with the Journal of Civil and Human Rights on Simon Balto’s Occupied Territory: Policing

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Eldridge Cleaver and the Afterlives of 1968

February 3, 2020February 2, 2020 E. James West Black political thought, electoral politics, Politics, presidents

*Fifth and final instalment of E. James West’s article series on the 1968 Presidential campaign* In the November 7, 1968

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The Imperial History of US Policing: An Interview with Stuart Schrader

January 29, 2020January 26, 2020 Dan Berger African Diaspora, black protest, Black radicalism, police brutality, police violence, policing, race, W.E.B. Du Bois

In today’s interview, Dan Berger speaks with Stuart Schrader about his new book, Badges Without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed

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