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The History and Failure of Prison in Washington

February 5, 2019March 31, 2019 Dan Berger prisons

The following essay is excerpted from my introduction to the second edition of Concrete Mama: Prison Profiles from Walla Walla,

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Attack Dogs and the History of Racial Violence

February 5, 2019March 31, 2019 Tyler Parry police brutality, police violence, Racial Violence

In 1970 French author Romain Gary published his novel White Dog, a semi-biographical work that imaginatively recreated the author’s experiences

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The Education of Black Boys

January 31, 2019February 2, 2019 Nadrea Njoku black feminism, black intellectual history, Gender, masculinity, race

In both Keisha Lindsay’s In A Classroom Of Their Own: The Intersection of Race and Feminist Politics in All-Black Male

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Ernest Gaines and Black Studies as Refuge

January 30, 2019March 31, 2019 Biko Caruthers Afro-pessimism, Black Studies, Philosophy

Part I: Making the wind pink, and the grass Black In “The Sky is Gray,” James, a young Black boy,

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Fugitive Slaves and the Quest for Freedom

January 24, 2019January 29, 2019 Jessica Parr fugitivity, law, Resistance, slavery

The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 intended to resolve whether free states had a legal obligation to return fugitive enslaved

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