Contesting State Violence in and Beyond the Archive
This is the second day of our roundtable on Heather Ann Thompson’s book, Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison
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Prison Abolition Syllabus
On September 9, 2016, the 45th anniversary of the Attica prison uprising, prisoners from at least twenty-one states began striking
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Announcement: AAIHS/JCHR Roundtable on Heather Ann Thompson’s Blood in the Water
January 22-27, 2017 The African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS)’s blog–Black Perspectives—is collaborating with the Journal of Civil and Human
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From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: An Interview with Elizabeth Hinton
This month, I interviewed Professor Elizabeth Kai Hinton on her new book, The War on Poverty to the War on
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Martin Sostre and the Fight against Solitary Confinement
In the summer of 2015, President Barack Obama finally broke the silence on the use of solitary confinement, calling for
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